Blaine emerged and told the crowd, "I saw something very prophetic. A team of construction workers removed a portion of the 75 cubic feet (2.1 m 3) of gravel surrounding the 6-foot (1.8-metre) deep coffin before a crane lifted the water tank. According to CNN, "Blaine's only communication to the outside world was by a hand buzzer, which could have alerted an around-the-clock emergency crew standing by." BBC News reported that the plastic coffin had six inches (150 millimetres) of headroom and two inches (51 millimetres) on each side.Īn estimated 75,000 people visited the site, including Marie Blood, Harry Houdini's niece, who said, "My uncle did some amazing things, but he could not have done this." On the final day of the stunt, April 12, hundreds of news teams were stationed at the site for the coffin opening. and Riverside Boulevard, as part of a stunt titled "Buried Alive". On April 5, 1999, Blaine was entombed in an underground plastic box underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days, across from Trump Place on 68th St. It is really about theatrical proxemics about the show-within-a-show and the spontaneous, visceral reactions of people being astonished." USA Today called Blaine the "hottest name in magic right now". Jon Racherbaumer commented: "Make no mistake about it, the focus of this show, boys and girls, is not Blaine. In Magic Man, Blaine is shown traveling across the country, entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians in Atlantic City, Compton, Dallas, the Mojave Desert, New York City, and San Francisco, recorded by a small crew with handheld cameras. When asked about his performance style, Blaine explained, "I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago." Time commented, "His deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled." "It really, really does break new ground," said Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller.
On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic, aired on ABC. Stunts and specials Street Magic and Magic Man (1997) Per another, "When Blaine was 21, his mother was stricken with cancer and passed away in 1994." When Blaine was 17 years old, he moved to Manhattan, New York City. Per one account, his mother developed cancer when Blaine was 15 and died when he was 20. They later moved to Little Falls, New Jersey, where he attended Passaic Valley Regional High School. He was raised by his mother and attended a Montessori school in Brooklyn. This sparked a lifelong interest for him. When Blaine was four years old, he saw a magician performing magic on the subway. 2.11 Electrified: One Million Volts Always On (2012)īlaine was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of a single mother, Patrice White, a teacher who was of Russian-Jewish ancestry, and a father who is a Vietnam War veteran of Puerto Rican and Italian descent.We're going to go ahead and say you really shouldn't try this anywhere. One of the frogs got loose and jumped around the room.Īfter having Curry check to see his mouth was empty, Blaine spit out yet another frog. The whole crowd was gasping, yelling, and generally losing it.īlaine spit out another frog and gave that one to Chappelle, who looked as though he wanted to find another party to hide in. Then the freaky part: Blaine picked up a glass of champagne and spit out a frog into the wine. Chappelle joked about drawing Drake's rap rival Meek Mill, but Chappelle went with a frog. He asked Chappelle to draw a small creature to fit in the palm of Drake's hand. On his new special, "David Blaine: Beyond Magic," which recently aired on ABC, Blaine met with Dave Chappelle, Drake, and NBA star Stephen Curry. We've gotten used to David Blaine pulling off some spectacular magic tricks, but he still stunned a roomful of famous people with a particularly nasty one.
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