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David Blaine: High Wire Act = Magic

 

Paris Hilton: Might Sue

Fresh off signing a new deal with ABC to produce four more specials, David Blaine announced he’ll help re-define magic to mean whatever he thinks it is.

The 32 year-old magicians will perform a high-wire act in Manhattan on Halloween for the first of the new specials. Mr. Blaine describes the stunt as “easy and fun.”

“Basically, it’s something that’s been done in the circuses, based on the old high-wire acts,” Mr. Blaine told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s like family entertainment, this one. It’s my easiest one. I want it to be simplistic and reachable for everybody. I was even going to call this one ‘Easy and Fun.'”

There was no word on whether Paris Hilton, the Hilton Hotel heiress, will sue for trademark infringement over Mr. Blaine’s use of the title “easy and fun.”

After leaving his 44-day fat farm experiment over the River Thames, Mr. Blaine has fallen from the media’s radar. His re-entry into our lives will begin this Sunday on the cable network TLC as they broadcast Mr. Blaine’s past three specials.

The programs include, David Blaine’s Vertigo, when he stood on a small platform atop a 30-metre-high pillar for 35 hours in midtown Manhattan, and David Blaine: Frozen in Time, when he suspended himself inside a 6-ton block of ice for 62 hours in New York’s Times Square.

Mr. Blaine bristled at the suggestion his stunts “no longer constitute magic in the traditional sense.” He believes that is too narrow a perspective. “I think magic is whatever the individual defines it to be. I say it’s all magic.”

Yes, but is it also entertainment?

 

Paris Hilton: Might Sue

Fresh off signing a new deal with ABC to produce four more specials, David Blaine announced he’ll help re-define magic to mean whatever he thinks it is.

The 32 year-old magicians will perform a high-wire act in Manhattan on Halloween for the first of the new specials. Mr. Blaine describes the stunt as “easy and fun.”

“Basically, it’s something that’s been done in the circuses, based on the old high-wire acts,” Mr. Blaine told the Associated Press on Tuesday. “It’s like family entertainment, this one. It’s my easiest one. I want it to be simplistic and reachable for everybody. I was even going to call this one ‘Easy and Fun.'”

There was no word on whether Paris Hilton, the Hilton Hotel heiress, will sue for trademark infringement over Mr. Blaine’s use of the title “easy and fun.”

After leaving his 44-day fat farm experiment over the River Thames, Mr. Blaine has fallen from the media’s radar. His re-entry into our lives will begin this Sunday on the cable network TLC as they broadcast Mr. Blaine’s past three specials.

The programs include, David Blaine’s Vertigo, when he stood on a small platform atop a 30-metre-high pillar for 35 hours in midtown Manhattan, and David Blaine: Frozen in Time, when he suspended himself inside a 6-ton block of ice for 62 hours in New York’s Times Square.

Mr. Blaine bristled at the suggestion his stunts “no longer constitute magic in the traditional sense.” He believes that is too narrow a perspective. “I think magic is whatever the individual defines it to be. I say it’s all magic.”

Yes, but is it also entertainment?

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