Or to be a little more proactive in going for the teenage dollars, maybe some MTV-ready personality like Tom Green, the lovably gross and obnoxious Gen X (or is it Y?) whatever he is.
As a result many dance works have become more intimate affairs — gallery ready and personality driven — so that they're not locked into dance-specific homes.
But unlike a stand-up, I don't have a ready-made personality that will engage the audience, like Les Dawson did.
Though the American standard for beer in the 1980s was light and mild, Mr. Cramer believed the country was ready for more personality in its beverages.
But beyond the kitty "experts" scheduled to speak, Internet personalities ready for 15 more minutes of fame, and the general enthusiasts eager to catch a glimpse of the Cheezburger CEO, Michals and the other organizers behind CatCon have managed to recruit an impressive roster of artists supplying fans with exactly what they want -- more funny cat pictures, memed before they ever encounter a URL.
But will any forceful personality be ready to put himself at the mercy of colleagues who have just turfed out an editor as successful as Mr Aust?
And he dismissed Sarah Palin, who was his party's nominee for vice president in 2008, as a would-be "TV personality" not ready to be president.
It seems that people lean forward while thinking about the future, and are more ready to judge a personality to be warm if they are holding a hot cup of coffee instead of a cold drink.
Perhaps, having already blurred the lines between fantasy and reality with his enormously successful television show, The Apprentice, Trump figures the country may just be ready for his outsized personality, despite the legions of critics ready to trashtalk his foibles – financial and romantic – outside the public limelight.
This comes across most clearly in his essays and journalism, forms in which style can easily turn into schtick and personality into ready-made persona.
Public and private friends warmed to his down-to-earth, no-nonsense personality and his ready sense of humour.
