We, in turn, bring news from The Post-Intelligencer that Criss Angel is finding solace from the slings and arrows launched by theatre critics in the arms of Hugh Heffner’s former girlfriend.
The second-hand nature of this report perhaps reveals the value Inside Magic places on the story.
The critics have been harsh on Criss Angel’s Believe.
Fortunately, there seems to be an almost endless supply of potential girl friends to buoy his name in the press.
Holly Madison is dating closer to her own age bracket. People magazine reports the former girlfriend of 82-year-old Playboyfounder Hugh Hefner has been the arm candy lately of Las Vegas illusionist Criss Angel, 40.
Apparently fans of magic and Playboy magazine should be happy or impressed.
Mr. Angel has been in the arms of many a woman found in the fickle focus of the popular media. The list runs from Minnie Driver, to Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, to Lindsay Lohan. Continue reading Criss Angel and Some Playboy Model Person
He performs an escape attempt each Halloween as a tribute to Houdini. The escapes are never easy and rarely safe, but always the subject of great media attention.
Performing escape attempts that combine high risk and great difficulty is sure bet for unexpected and tragic results. Perhaps that is why the press follows each attempt so closely.
Quoth Houdini: No one wants to see someone die, but they want to be there if it happens.
A quarter century ago, Mr. Gunnarson came with in a breath or two of losing his life in an underwater escape dedicated to Houdini.
Curtis Lovell is well-known to television audiences. He cut Paris Hilton in half on her show The Simple Life, provided instructions to escape from handcuffs on the Spike TV show Manswers. He called out David Blaine and John “I talk to dead people” Edward.
Neither performer had the guts to take him up on a magic duel.
Mr. Lovell made a great impression with his performance of his Cube of Death on the USA Network’s Road Characters.
On the 84th anniversary of Houdini’s passing, Mr. Lovell literally went underground.
By performing an escape Houdini himself said was too dangerous to repeat, Mr. Lovell took an enormous risk — an not just to his career.
The Buried Alive escape is a test of physical endurance and mental focus. Oxygen is in short supply and panic is a constant enemy; ready to steal the limited amount trapped within the sealed coffin.
Readers of Inside Magic no doubt recall the very strange police raid and seizure of magic coins. The police charged the magicians with defacing Japanese currency.
Just as the story attracted Inside Magic’s attention back in 2007, television news reports in Japan showed entirely too much of the seized booty.
Midway through his new show, Criss Angel turns and asks his audience the night’s big question: “Are you still there?”
He probably meant it as, are the fans he made with his slam-bang “Mindfreak” stunt-magic hanging on for this new career left turn; a journey through a Cirque du Bizarro ballet?
But the fans might be asking him the same question from their seats. It looks like their guy (most of the time, anyway), and talks like him. But is he still there?
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