David Blaine seems to be barely hanging on, as his "suspension of disbelief" stunt nears its end in London:
LONDON, England (CNN) -- With less than a day remaining in his starvation stunt, illusionist David Blaine is said to be suffering from palpitations and breathing difficulties.
For the last 43 days the American magician has been suspended in a glass box next to London's Tower Bridge, with water as his only sustenance.
He is due to emerge on Sunday evening, when he will be taken directly to hospital.
Which will all be filmed for the inevitable TV special, which will dramatize the heroic efforts made to save his life, while Blaine himself enjoys some fish and chips backstage. I'm taking bets on the size of the motorcade that will accompany him to the hospital.
His Web site says that by day 38, Blaine was "occasionally incoherent and has been exhibiting signs of delusion," smelled strongly of sulfur and was longing to take a bath.
He's been "exhibiting signs of delusion" for years. I can't decide which one is more amusing: his delusion of being the "modern Houdini," or his delusion that anyone actually believes he's been up in that box the whole time. Magician Jerry Sadowitz had some comments about the latter in a recent issue of The Guardian:
Imagine being David Blane right now...sneaking off on the back of a cherry-picker at night (under the guise of a man wiping/emptying the box); going to the effort of freeze-framing the "shot" of being asleep at night to fool the cameras (controlled by your own production company naturally); the effort of strategically positioning ground-lights at night so that passers-by can't see the back of the box when he makes the switch; and having to convince the whole world that you're starving and miserable when you have $50m, a gorgeous celebrity girlfriend and your delusions of grandeur satisfied by a media that can't get enough of you. It must be terrible.
Sadowitz goes on to express the opinion shared by most critics; that if he was doing this for charity, all would be forgiven. That he doesn't seem to understand the negativity leveled at him only confirms the fact that Blaine operates in that parallel reality occupied exclusively by celebrities who think they need $18,000 a month to survive and hack "illusionists" who believe that spending 44 days doing something half of the world suffers through every minute of their lives somehow makes them deserving of our respect.
Where's Montecore when you really need him?
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