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HANS Klok is a household name. In is mum's house, Klok is a legend. But to the greater public Klok is the magician whose show features a pneumatic Pamela Anderson as his able-bodied assistant.

The Casino Anorak will take a regular look at casino shows in Las Vegas and beyond. I begin with "Hans Klok - The Beauty of Magic", appearing for as long as they want to pay to see him at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

The promotional shot features a bouffant-haired Klok fanning a pack of cards. Klok is as feminine as a Japanese geisha. Klok is "the world's fastest magician". Take two bottles into the shower? Klok takes ten and still gets the job done on time. It's magic.

As the show's official website boasts, Klok pedigree is formidable: "After performing his first magic trick at the age of ten, Hans Klok went on to win a number of magician championships as a young man, including the European Youth Magician Champion Trophy, the Tommy Cooper Trophy and first prize at the Grand Prix of The Netherlands."

Yes, the Tommy Cooper Trophy. Suitably impressed, we hear from the man in Siegfried's hair*. "Performing in Las Vegas is a one in a million chance, so we wanted to do something that gets all the attention immediately," says the Dutchman.

"Pamela is such an icon. I love when she enters the stage because you see people falling all over their chairs."

The advice is to arrive late lest you are fallen upon by large mid-Western American supporting a tray of tacos and cheese.

"We do all this metamorphosis effect, where suddenly I'm there, or suddenly the girl is there," said Klok. "We do the switches so fast that even my colleagues are asking, 'How did you do that?'"

Indeed. Keen eyes on the Strip have noticed that Anderson, Klok's chief prop, is the replacement for Carmen Electra.

Just like that!