I didn't watch his special the other night, but how could you not hear about it? Every time this guy does some stunt, it's in the news for a week or more afterwards. I saw a special with him very early in his career, and he did some amazing stuff. Like walking the streets, and finding homeless people drinking coffee, and making their cups overflow with coinage. Also his "levitation" (as far as I know, from friends who practice such... trickery/deception (let's face it, that's what it mostly is, not real "magic" in the classic sense), only that levitation trick is repeatable. The others are still a mystery). But all of a sudden, this guy tried to become David Copperfield, only using himself instead of the Statue of Liberty or Space Shuttle. Is his ego THAT large that he must make such a public spectacle of himself for no reason? Even his latest stunt, the breath holding thing, why break the record?! The person who holds the record is a free diver (someone who dives fairly deep, but w/o any equipment), so it's a *practical* skill. He has no business trying to compete with that. You'll never see him going for the "most consecutive hours watching TV" record (for the record on that one, it's held by a couple of kids who broke it during the last summer olympics in 2004, and they did it in an IHOP restaurant!) because it just doesn't inflate his ego like the 'stamina' records do.
This guy went from respectable, entertaining and even amazing, to just needy and egotistical. I have doubts as to whether or not he and Donald Trump could even fit in the same building together...
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