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From: mjm710
Date: Mon Nov 25, 2002 7:12pm
Subject: Re: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show
> > I remember the Hiatians (?) were a bit spooked by it and the
> > Amazonian Indians(?) weren't over impressed. IIRC they didn't
quite
> > understand card tricks or indeed cards for that matter.
> >
> >
> > /Mike
>
> Yes Blaine did have a major communication gap to fill - but I think
> he did so rather well.
I dunno. It was a long way to go to bring back very little usuably
footage.
>
> As for the scary bits - well the card tricks weren't really
anything
> new to me - but the way that Blaine performed them was very good,
and
> i enjoyed them greatly.
I think a lot of it is presentation. The same card trick done by Paul
Daniels would undoubtably be absolute bobbins.
>The fly coming to life bit - well i should
> stop watching those magic secrets revealed programmes, cos i know
how
> he did that too (can anyone say cryogenics?)
hmmmm - it does kind of spoil the "magic" a bit but I can't stop
watching them. The street magic revealed show was good, if only to
show the Balducci levitation plus the heavy editing David Blaine did
in his version.
>
> But the scary bits - well pulling a thread out of your stomach
> probably isnt the best tricks to do at a dinner party, and sticking
a
> pen through your tongue - ick - i know he has a way of doing
things,
> but it doesnt stop me from getting a bit freaked out by some of
them -
Good job you didn't see the Jonathan Woss show then. Blaine "put a
surgical needle through his hand". He said the trick was still in
development which would explain why the needle seemed to have doubled
its length by the time it had "passed through" his hand.
> was good to see the name on the arm trick again too (when he takes
a
> folded piece of papaer with a name written on it, burns it and
> scrapes it against his skin and lo and behold the name's on his
arm -
> i do love that trick.)
>
> All in all it was a very good programme - the name dawn written on
> the taxi held me flabbergasted for a while to!
Was that when he read someone's mind for a name and the taxi went
past in the background of the shot? I'm still flabbergasted!
/Mike
>
> ~Gilraen
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