'Champagne Charlie' is a music hall song for those fortunate enough to have experienced that fantastic medium of mirthful and talented diversion, guided by the talents of that priceless manipulator of both audience and performers, the compere!
Any comparison of music hall with the present attendant goings on in certain union circles only serves to remind one of the excellence of entertainment of the former with the quite incomprehensible mirthless moronity of the latter.
In cultish terms, if we exclude Aleister Crowley, the usual definition would seem to imply manipulation, control and exploitation of a group of individuals by the leaders. That seems a reasonably justified, if slightly derogatory, definition to apply collectively to certain members of one or two distinct British unions.
In cinematographic history it is interesting to see that Zombies have also often been considered as members of a cult in various horror movies. Happily, there usually appears to be a permanent solution to that particular affliction.
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