David Copperfield -- Illusionist Extraordinare
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's Awesome Applesauce: Charles Quevedo
From the mid-80's to the late-90's, I often watched those David Copperfield television specials that would come out. For a couple of hours, he would dazzle the TV audience with some of the greatest magic tricks and illusions we ever saw (making the Statue of Liberty disappear, walking through the Great Wall of China, escaping from Alcatraz and others), often leaving us asking ourselves, "How'd he do that"?
A loner with extreme shyness in his pre-teen years, he used "magic" to fit in, and later, a way to pick up girls. Unlike those other magicians like "David Blaine" and "Chriss Angel", Copperfield had a slick style all his own. He always mixed humor, storytelling, hip music, ballroom-type dance sequences and romance into his performances.
Having his headquarters in Las Vegas; Copperfield owns the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts (which houses the world's largest collection of historically signifigant magic memorabilia, artifacts and books). In its collection of approximately 80,000 items of magic memorabilia are "Houdini's Water Torture Cabinet and his Metamorphosis Trunk" and "Orson Welles' Buzz Saw Illusion". The museum is NOT open to the public; the tours reserved ONLY for fellow magicians, colleagues and serious collectors.
Although he still tours, performing his mind-blowing illusions, David Copperfield no longer does those television specials that I once loved watching so much. Forget "David Blaine" and "Chriss Angel", give me Copperfield any day.
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