In 2003 the American illusionist David Blaine spent 44 days without food while sealed in a transparent box suspended 30ft above the south bank of the Thames. Some onlookers interrupted his sleep by banging drums and sounding foghorns and one man attempted to cut off Blaine’s water supply. The hostility contrasted with awestruck audience reactions to his earlier feats in the United States. Blaine’s publicist, Howard Rubenstein, advised the magician to defuse the criticism with good-natured responses to his detractors in the media. “We didn’t get angry,” Rubenstein told the New York Post.

Source: The Times January 05, 2021 17:03 UTC