Copperfield's magic water

Recently, Criss Angel has surprised me by standing up to a contestant on his NBC show who blurred the lines between tricks and reality. I also heard Angel on Larry King admitting that the things he does on his show are a performance. Of course, I had such a hard time getting Angel to say that when I interviewed him. So, better late than never.

 

Anyway, Robin Leach has run an interview with David Copperfield today that reminds me why it is so important to keep that line clear for all to see between entertainment and natural phenomena. Here is Copperfield talking to Leach about the research he did to find a fountain on his island in the Bahamas:

 

"I found it by connecting lines between magical places around the Earth. There is Stonehenge in England, I drew a line from Stonehenge to the statues in Easter Island in Chile and another line between the Pyramid of Gaza in Egypt to the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico and those four lines intersect at a specific spot in the ocean, and it so happens that is where my islands are."

 

David, you forgot crop circles and Area 51! Um, the globe is round and you can pick any group of "magic" spots to draw a line to a single point. It all depends what you include and what you don't include. How about Salem, Mass., or even the Bermuda Triangle? Alistair Crowley's house, anyone?

 

Pick the right spots on a round globe and you too can have a nexus of mystical activity in your backyard. So picking a few spots and drawing lines has resulted in what Copperfield is not quite ready to call "The Fountain of Youth" but also isn't willing to call simply water in his backyard.  Copperfield tells Leach the water can do "miraculous" things.