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**** This Weekend the Public at Pier 54 Can Try Hands-on Electricity Experiments In the Shadow of David Blaine’s Tesla Coils as He Completes His Most Grueling Endurance Performance. **** David Blaine As David Blaine stands atop a 20-foot high platform on Pier 54 in Manhattan on October 5 to 8, bathed in 1 million volts of icy blue electricity arcing across his body from massive Tesla Coils, his fans can make electricity of their own.  Aided by science educators from Liberty Science Center, in Jersey City, NJ where Mr. Blaine is the official Magician-in-Residence, spectators at ELECTRIFIED can experiment with a 4-foot Jacob’s Ladder; a kosher dill Glowing Pickle; an Energy Stick where a group of people hold hands to complete a circuit, lighting bulbs held between them; and other experiments. They can also interact with the Tesla Coils and communicate with Mr. Blaine at Intel Ultrabook stations in New York and around the world. Fans can find Liberty Scienc...

David Blaine With Rita Cosby And Tomaczek Bednarek Amazing Kreskin With Rita Cosby And John Oden Amazing Kreskin With Richard Rubenstein And Tomaczek Bednarek It was a magical Thanksgiving Evening in New York City. Public Relations powerhouse Richard Rubenstein had a bash in his Central Park West home and it was just wonderful to see so many old friends. Magician David Blaine was there and he was a huge hit with the children. He was doing magic tricks for everyone and every child had balloons on their heads in all kinds of animal shapes. Boxing champ and financier John Oden was there and as always, was all smiles. New York Times best selling author and Emmy award winning newswoman Rita Cosby was there with singer and songwriter Tomazcek Bednarek. Blast from the past, The Amazing Kreskin appeared out of no where and sure was a hit with the folks that remember his hit television show many years ago. We also ran into night club kings Cornelis Crane and Paul Drohan who have the new hit hot...

**** 18th ANNUAL MAGICAL EVENING **** Story By: Marcy Macdonald Photos By: Ann Watt **** www.christopherreeve.org **** Tomazcek Bednarek And Rita Cosby Will Reeve With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close And Matthew Reeve Molly Simms And Gossip Girl’s Jessica Szohr Kathleen Turner With David Blaine, Broadway Veteran Jimmy Nederlander And Margo MacNabb Most of Broadway was dark Monday night, but not the Marriott Marquis where James Nederlander introduced scenes from Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' at the 18th annual Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation's 'Magical Evening." The applause for Meryl Streep's champagne toast was dwarfed by that for wheelchair-bound artist, Chuck Close, when he announced that the change in Presidential administration would re-launch stem cell research. Her co-chairs, Francine LeFrak, Glenn Close and special guests Matthew, Alexandra and Will Reeve, welcomed Lipstick Jungle's Lindsay Price, Mary Alice Stephenson, Moll Simms, Gos...

David Blaine Illusionist David Blaine is planning to give up sleep as his next feat of endurance.The 34-year-old has already performed several death-defying stunts, including going without food for over a month while suspended in a box over London, staying frozen in a case of ice for nearly three days in New York's Times Square, and spending 35 hours standing on a 100 foot (30.5 meter)-high pillar.And Blaine's next trick will be to stay awake for as long as possible, in what will be his most challenging stunt yet - but it won't be without its risks.He tells the New York Post's gossip column PageSix , "It's been tried before.In 1959, Peter Tripp stayed awake eight days, but it resulted in permanent brain damage. In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner did it for a high school science project. He lasted 11 and a half days but recovered fully. No damage.If I do this thing, I'll do it on my feet. Standing up."The problem is there's no way to know how to of...

David Blaine used magic tricks to stop himself from being thrown out of a nightclub.The magician was reportedly asked to leave a Hamptons nightclub after ALLEGEDLY drunkenly downing drinks belonging to two ladies he didn't know, and then smashing the glasses on the floor.Two witnesses claim that as security guards tried to show Blaine the door, he pulled out a deck of cards and said, "If I can do these tricks, I can't be that drunk."After wowing the security guards with his magic act, Blaine was allowed to stay in the club, according to the New York Daily News newspaper. The 33-year-old has been keeping a low profile since his last public stunt,which took place in November last year. Blaine escaped from shackles four stories high above New York's Times Square, after spending two days in a spinning gyroscope.The illusionist was strapped into the contraption and hoisted by a crane above the streets where he spent 48 hours spinning while exposed to wintry weather c...