Famous Magicians

The profiles of some famous magicians are furnished below.

Criss Angel
Angel has an inclination to display edgy magic like the magic colostomy bag and the cut and restored wrist in natural-looking sets. His popularity culminated during the success of the A&E television show "Criss Angel's Freakout". He is very private and does not reveal his personal life. Angel loves to entertain people with death-defying stunts like:

• lying on a bed of nails and then surviving a Humvee
• lifting people in the air when they do not desire so
• getting chained and sealed in a water filled barrel and then lifting it to 80 feet and blowing it by a howitzer
• getting suspended from a helicopter by fishhooks attached through the skin and getting lowered over a lake to be used as a human bait
• eating David Copperfield's duck

Harry Anderson
He is not only a magician but also a cardiologist, comedian, ladies man, con man, performer, author, entertainer and actor. His popularity as a street magician soared when he pushed sharp objects through his arm and made cards appear from his pants for the quarters of strangers.

David Copperfield
The television special series "The Magic of David Copperfield" had the following episodes:

• Time traveling DeLorean
• Airplane
• Liberating the Statue of Liberty
• Floating on a donkey over the Grand Canyon
• Cirque du Familares
• Walking through China without a visa
• Escape from detention
• The Bermuda shorts escape
• Blowin' stuff up
• The Schweitzer falls challenge
• Mystery at the Panda inn
• Flying – dreams I had though I did not inhale
• Settin' stuff on fire
• Unexplainede card forces
• Tornado of fire – a parable of global warming

Andrew Mayne
He became reputed due to effective but inexpensive ideas like remove your own arm, decapitating strangers and double eyeball penetration. Gut buster and ghost bills are his well-known magics.

David Blaine
Some of this feats are:

• uplifting one inch above the ground
• eating small change
• getting buried alive for 30 days
• balancing on a ball on the top of a flagpole for 2 months
• being frozen in a solid block of ice for 1 month
• being closed in a sphere filled with water for 1 year
• staying alive in a suspended transparent British box for 4 months

Richard Osterlind
He is not a common household name like Houdini. He is particularly remembered for:

• Breakthrough card system
• radar deck
• steel blindfold

Presto
He became a legend due to the "vanishing of the Queen Mary". His feats include:

• making a horse vanish
• in your genes

Houdini
Harry Houdini was the greatest magician, stunt performer and escape artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As his wife Bess helped in his act and ignored his obsession regarding his mother, he was very successful in his career right from the start. His career skyrocketed when he got locked in a trunk while performing "Metamorphosis". At this juncture, he found out that the crowd was interested in the fact that he may suffocate rather than the illusion. Further, in acts of escapology, he escaped from ropes, handcuffs, solid cement, straight jackets, a great white shark and a vat of acid. Some of his acts are:

• vanishing an elephant
• straight jacket escape
• milk can escape
• metamorphosis
• Indian needle mystery
• handcuffs under water

Penn & Teller
Both these magicians have an expertise in skepticism, weirdness, comedy and eccentricity. Penn is a fire-eater who used to work in a circus. Teller is a one-time philosophy professor. This duo perform the following:

• locate a card being devoured by angry rats
• locate a card through drowning
• locate a card by stabbing in the chest
• dump a cargo container full of cockroaches on David Letterman
• locate a card with a disembodied monkey head

Kreskin
His feats include finding a paycheck and predicting the future. He has been entertaining the masses since 1940.