Copperfield Impresses Today’s Youth
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While we are proud of our University of Florida roots, we are also aware of how harsh our former school paper can be on virtually all of the performing arts.
The Independent Florida Alligator is the daily paper for the university and has a proud history of resisting attempts to control its content. There are several reported decisions in Florida case law upholding the paper’s right to publish as it sees fit. It is funded by advertising and non-state monies and has been accepted as the cynical, too cool for school paper for the near 40,000 students in Gainesville.
We were surprised, then, when it gave raves to David Copperfield’s two shows at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The critic noted Mr. Copperfield’s choice in music was clich?, and his ability to tell a joke was non-existent.
But, the critic noted, “the man can teleport a duck. And that is something.”
In the lingo of today’s youth, we think the following is a compliment:
“Sure, some of it was hokey, but around the fluff of too-long lead-ins and corny Copperfield fishing for cheap laughs, his performance produced what all good magic shows should: some damn-crazy tricks.
David Blaine, for example, freezing himself on national television loses all magnitude through the lens of a video camera. But, I must say, when Copperfield shrinks himself to nothing but feet and a head four rows away, I couldn?t help being impressed.”
You can read the whole article here.
We’re guessing Mr. Copperfield must view this as high praise.
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Copperfield Impresses Today’s Youth
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While we are proud of our University of Florida roots, we are also aware of how harsh our former school paper can be on virtually all of the performing arts.
The Independent Florida Alligator is the daily paper for the university and has a proud history of resisting attempts to control its content. There are several reported decisions in Florida case law upholding the paper’s right to publish as it sees fit. It is funded by advertising and non-state monies and has been accepted as the cynical, too cool for school paper for the near 40,000 students in Gainesville.
We were surprised, then, when it gave raves to David Copperfield’s two shows at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The critic noted Mr. Copperfield’s choice in music was clich?, and his ability to tell a joke was non-existent.
But, the critic noted, “the man can teleport a duck. And that is something.”
In the lingo of today’s youth, we think the following is a compliment:
“Sure, some of it was hokey, but around the fluff of too-long lead-ins and corny Copperfield fishing for cheap laughs, his performance produced what all good magic shows should: some damn-crazy tricks.
David Blaine, for example, freezing himself on national television loses all magnitude through the lens of a video camera. But, I must say, when Copperfield shrinks himself to nothing but feet and a head four rows away, I couldn?t help being impressed.”
You can read the whole article here.
We’re guessing Mr. Copperfield must view this as high praise.
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Blaine Avoids Copperfield? We’re Insecure?
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The report in the gossip portion of MSNBC is always interesting to read if only to learn how and why celebrity couples we don?t know broke up. But we were startled, down-right startled, to read that Tobey Maguire (?Spiderman?) will not sit near Joaquin Phoenix (?Ladder 49?) in the VIP room at the hot New York caf?, Lotus. Similarly, the owner of this chi-chi joint says David Blaine will not eat in the same VIP room as David Copperfield.
You can read the article here.
This was troubling news. While we have never met Mr. Maguire and don?t even know if Joaquin Phoenix is a man or a woman, we do know Mr. Copperfield and Mr. Blaine. It is significant that Mr. Copperfield apparently has no trouble eating with the likes of Mr. Blaine. Rather the man who was willing to not eat with the whole world watching for 44 days, refuses to be in the same room as our era?s television magic star.
We attempted to contact both Mr. Copperfield and Mr. Blaine for comment but were unable to get through.
Rodney King once said, ?Can?t we all just get along?? A truer question has not been poised. Can?t we? Can?t we drop our own egos long enough to be seen with our competition?
We?re not famous so we don?t have the problem of remembering with whom we should be seen or not seen. But, on our own little, insignificant scale, we have ego-related problems. When we hang with the guys at magic conventions, we want to hang with the cool crowd. We don?t mind having to…
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