![]() I have these things now eventually someone else will have them. “Now I look at it as a kind of obligation. “I never had any interest in performing magic and I certainly never thought I’d have any of this stuff,” he says. Handwritten Houdini signature on a magic wand made from wood from Houdini’s house. Still, given the mainstreaming of magic over the last half century, what makes Houdini’s legacy so enduring? Even though Houdini was hardly the first person to make magic into a career, he is arguably the first to become a globally recognized celebrity for doing so. It’s hard to imagine the spectacle of David Copperfield or the stunty theatrics of David Blaine without Harry Houdini having created the blueprint. A showman with panache, he led with death-defying stunts, escaping from straightjackets while being hoisted from a crane, and somehow cheating death after being submerged upside down in a locked, water-filled box or after being tossed into the ocean in a lead-lined box. ![]() While Moses’ fascination with Houdini might veer toward the obsessive, a quick sweep of the internet reveals just how large the famed illusionist and escape artist continues to loom in popular consciousness, even nearly 100 years after his death.
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