The piece does not score as highly as Mr St John's, but does not seem intended as a crowd-pleaser.

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Lauper's songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser.

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Bruce Springsteen (12-1): Yes, obviously, of course, I'm with you 100%: The Boss is the no-brainer, the natural, easiest crowd-pleaser.

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The simple chicken skewers, spiced with cumin, are an instant crowd-pleaser.

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But for Labour to revive, and maybe for Mr Brown to survive, it will take more than a semblance of unity and the odd crowd-pleaser.

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And don't rule out a return to the top of the music charts ("I'm really proud of that") by a young woman with talent and a zest for life -- a real crowd-pleaser in every sense.

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After a series of passionate appeals by the Conservative MP for the home of brewing, Andrew Griffiths of Burton, Mr Osborne found enough scope to cut the price of a pint by 1p and to scrap the duty escalator altogether - a real crowd pleaser in a Tory marginal.

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But, the number one crowd-pleaser was the invention of superminiature robots in 2001.

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It's a crowd-pleaser, and Blonsky's voice is sweet and not too piercing.

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Best Picture and Best Director usually go to the same movie, but it is possible the Academy could split them between crowd-pleaser, "Slumdog" and "Benjamin Button" this year.

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Still, the brewer's touchy-feely Clydesdale commercial showing a horse being reunited with its trainer was a crowd pleaser.

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