{"id":210,"date":"2005-08-03T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T05:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2005-08-03T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T05:12:01","slug":"criss-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/criss-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Criss’ angel."},"content":{"rendered":"

USAToday posted an article called “Criss Angel, new master of illusion<\/a>” that contains a quote from Genii Magazine<\/a> bossman, Richard Kaufman.<\/p>\n

In its first two weeks Mindfreak has drawn 1.7 million viewers, easily improving on the cable network’s average prime-time audience of 1.1 million. More important, it’s drawing young viewers: The median age is 34, well below A&E’s usual 49.<\/p>\n

“He is on track to be the next superstar in our field,”<\/em> says Richard Kaufman, editor of Genii: The Conjurors’ Magazine. Criss is “a hungry guy. You have to be hungry to be a star. It only comes to those who are willing to do almost anything, and, as you can see from the series, he’s willing to do just about anything.”<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Criss mentions one episode he thinks A&E may not air. Check out the article for more.<\/p>\n

I did think his response to the inevitable “David Blaine” question was beneath dignity. There’s no way one can answer the way Angel did without looking petty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USAToday posted an article called “Criss Angel, new master of illusion” that contains a quote from Genii Magazine bossman, Richard Kaufman. In its first two weeks Mindfreak has drawn 1.7 million viewers, easily improving on the cable network’s average prime-time audience of 1.1 million. More important, it’s drawing young viewers: The median age is 34, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}