And Now, For My Next Magical Trick
Posted By Paul Kotik on 21 May 2006
Having just recently spent a week as a very public Man in a Bubble, Mr. David Blaine has announced his intent to do the only reasonable thing.
"I’m planning to live harmoniously among wild beasts" , Blaine told the New York Post. What, again ? Isn’t that more of the same ? No, as Blaine made clear: “ And I’d like to do it alone, in the jungle.”
Ah. A real, jungle, he means. Not the metaphorical jungle of New York’s mean streets, but the real thing. Lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh, my.
Business as usual
He’s got to do something. Now, two weeks after Blaine was extracted from the spherical acrylic womb in a quaintly obstetric finish to his 177-hour gestation, it’s as if it never was. He was still a hot item, or perhaps a re-heated one, five days after the Emerging, turning up on NBC’s Saturday Night Live – a show which has been running for about as long as David Blaine has been living. He joined the cast and hostess Julia Louis Dreyfuss in making sport of David Blaine. The sketch, it seems, had a cast member playing the role of Performance Freediving’s Kirk Krack, who is now the first professional freediver ever to be mocked on live national television. Blaine’s got to move on to his next dose of celebrity – hence, the jungle and the wild animals. That’s his business.
The freedivers, the ones who trained David Blaine and whose presence at the New York venue koshered the apnea finale, have also moved on. Back to their business. The morning after Blaine show, Martin Stepanek and Mandy-Rae Cruickshank were in the air headed to a teaching gig in Newport Beach. Kirk stayed on in New York to clean up, then jetted out 24 hours later to join his colleagues. That’s their business.
We had dinner in Fort Lauderdale the very next week, when the PFI Team landed there with a real freediver’s appetite to satisfy. David Blaine has his catering and his fancy Manhattan eateries, but when in South Florida we’ve got all-you-can-eat fixed-price sushi. Yes, that is an alarming concept, what with the rising cost of quality fresh fish at wholesale, but we’ve got a regular place that nobody’s died from so far. Moreover, this place continues to let us in despite the heavy losses our water-fueled appetites wreak on their finances. Let's see David Blaine do that.
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