Frozen In Time
November 27 - November 29, 2000
David Blaine froze himself in a 6-ton block of ice in New York City’s Times Square for 63 hours, suffering deathly hallucinations and extreme sleep deprivation.
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I'll take my magic on the rocks
Josh Tyrangiel, December 11, 2000
"Blaine, Rocky-style, called for his girlfriend and gave her a kiss before being whisked off in an ambulance. Houdini would have been proud. Houdini's publicist would have been prouder."
He's an ice guy, that David Blaine
Ann Oldenburg, November 20, 2000
"Everything is about creating a moment...Right now, if a peanut butter sandwich appeared in your pocket, that'd be a neat trick. But if you said to me, 'I'm hungry, I'd kind of like a peanut butter sandwich,' and then I said, 'Reach into your pocket,' and there's a peanut butter sandwich, that's no longer a trick."
ALPHABET ICES WIN: Blaine, 'Millionaire' make ABC most-watched
Rick Kissell, December 1, 2000
"...a special featuring magician David Blaine helped ABC ice the November sweep's total-viewer crown Wednesday"
A TV Feat by a Reeaally Cool Guy
Jesse McKinley, November 28, 2000
"He will not sleep, he said, because if his skin touches the ice, it could adhere. (Stick your tongue on a frozen lamppost and you'll get the idea.)"
High Temperatures Shrink Ice Man's Cocoon
Jesse McKinley, November 29, 2000
"'If the ice melts too much, there's a chance it could implode on itself,' Mr. Kalush said. 'And he wouldn't have a chance.'"
A Latter Day Houdini, Out of Cold Storage
Joyce Wadler, December 1, 2000
"It's weird, I'm really terrified and freaking out. I think I'm not going to make it, I'm telling my guys to get me out."
3rd Blaine Special Just Plain Magical
Eric Mink, November 29, 2000
"...no one seems to mind being tricked by Blaine. Indeed, they're pretty much ecstatic about it, perhaps because what he does right under their noses is so astoundingly impossible."
Coming in from the Cold
Ralph R. Ortega, December 1, 2000
"'I thought that I had died; I thought that I had woke up and that this was where I was. This was death,'"
The Houdini of the Hoi Polloi
Marnelle Jameson, November 19, 2000
"In his work, Blaine is the antithesis of Las Vegas-style magicians such as David Copperfield or Siegfried and Roy. Blaine's style is low-key--no stage, no lights, no smoke, no curtains. For the most part, it's just him, a random audience and, occasionally, a pack of cards."
Ice man cometh to set world record
November 27, 2000
"He's wearing only pants, boots, and a knit cap, with his upper body merely smeared with a layer of Vaseline."
