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David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic
This is a TV special/documentary in which David Copperfield is interviewed in his Magic Warehouse by his girlfriend, the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, about his career as an illusionis... Read allThis is a TV special/documentary in which David Copperfield is interviewed in his Magic Warehouse by his girlfriend, the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, about his career as an illusionist, speaking primarily of the most famous illusions and escapes performed over a period of ... Read allThis is a TV special/documentary in which David Copperfield is interviewed in his Magic Warehouse by his girlfriend, the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, about his career as an illusionist, speaking primarily of the most famous illusions and escapes performed over a period of about 15 years. The illusions shown are taken from 8 TV specials between The Magic of Davi... Read all
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David Copperfield (illusionist)
American magician (born 1956)
David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, 1956), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American stage magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.[2]
Copperfield's television specials have been nominated for 38 Emmy Awards, winning 21. Known for his combination of storytelling and illusion, his performance, in a career spanning more than 40 years, have earned 11 Guinness World Records,[3] a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[4] and a knighthood by the French government.[5] He has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress.[6]
His illusions have included the disappearance of a Learjet aircraft (1981), the vanishing and reappearance of the Statue of Liberty (1983), levitating over the Grand Canyon (1984), walking through the Great Wall of China (1986), escaping from Alcatraz prison (1987), the disap
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Posted by Tim Brayton Posted on Oct - 4 - 20200 Comments
Run like the Dickens
On paper, The Personal History of David Copperfield does everything right. The first feature bio adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1849-'50 novel in a half century is both clearly in love with the source material (just check out that title, which at least reminds us that most Dickens novels technically have much longer names than we generally use when we're talking about them*). But it's not using the source ämne as a prison, instead charging it up with zippy comic energy, thanks to director Armando Iannucci's great skill with keeping banter moving at a fast clip, as well as his ability to gather enormous and extremely talented casts all in one place and then find good things for all of them to do. And David Copperfield has an especially ingenious cast, on top of it.
In practice inom found The Personal History of David Copperfield to be an entirely enervating experience, one of those particularly