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The up to date musician to take action the part of Houdini is Adrien Brody. Mr. Brody was born April 14, 1973 in Queens, NY. His mother was Hungarian and Jewish, so grant is a column that Adrien has to Houdini. Next, both the real Houdini and the movie Houdini are both Aries.
Adrien's interest in magic began as a kid. I'm not discernible what the view was to get dressed in magic, but he actually on hand magic shows at inferior centennial parties as The Wonderful Adrien. That's a dense one the same as I don't assume Houdini ever did centennial parties.....but they both were dressed in magic!
At about the age of 11 Adrien attended the coveted Tannen's Magic Base. Other previous notables who attended the encampment gain Overseer Slap David Blaine, The Productive and Profit Joshua Jay and the Millionaire's Magician, Steve Cohen. The Base has been tidied up every summer seeing that 1974 and brings in 130 students every summer to learn about magic. Celebration on Facebook mentioned that Adrien was a big fan of Johnny Ace Palmer from back in his Magic Base days and ran dressed in him at a gig. Spot having an Oscar Attractive Actor as your leading fan!
Portray are other friends to Houdini. In 2008, Adrien Brody starred in a movie called THE BROTHERS Flower head with Signpost Ruffalo. Signpost played Theo Hardeen in the TNT Covering HOUDINI back in 1998. By he way, the co-star in The Brothers Flower head was Rachel Weisz who is reported to be an foreshadowing of the real Houdini.
The initial time I recuperate assessment about Adrien Brody days dressed in magic was dressed in the promotional tour for his movie THE PIANIST. Obviously, he claimed that the skill he ready dressed in his magic signal days came in seal off since having to learn to take action the baby grand for that movie.
Monday on The In this day and age Show, Brody even demonstrated a territory of magic. An impromptu false of loot a rear notice and break a pencil with it....proving that a simple stump well executed goes empty well on TV. Sentry this try-out and at the end Brody does his magic! By the way, purloin a reverberation at the background animations on the set, the name HOUDINI appears in the background myriad become old with manacles and locks under the name that are influential back and forth. Extremely cool!
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Here is one that really took me by surprise. In the February 1928 issue of THE SPHINX, they record that Dante tried his hand at an escape act while performing in South America. To quote the article it says "He failed to put it over." There is no other information regarding this incident.
I know Dante was in fact in South America at this time. Thurston sent him there in 1927 and his tour started in a less than perfect fashion. He was continually plagued by advance men ripping him off and managers not fulfilling there end of agreements. The language difference didn't help matters either. And then of course there was Charles Carter and Grover George who were both in South America and Dante was essentially having to follow them.
But an escape act. That struck me as odd. So I began to dig and I discovered that when Dante was still using his real name Harry Jansen, he co-owned a magic manufacturing company in Chicago called, Halton, Jansen and LeRoy. One of the items from their catalog was a Packing Crate Escape. Hardly a full escape act, but it's something. But the blurb from The Sphinx doesn't say escape show, it says "He tried to stage an escape act." So perhaps he tried to pull in some publicity with a packing crate escape and either it failed, or because he didn't speak the language, he had difficulty in relaying to the audience just what to expect.
"The reason I found this whole thing unusual was because of Dante's feelings towards HOUDINI. In the book, THE HOUDINI CODE MYSTERY by William Rauscher, there is a small chapter with Dante's feelings towards Houdini. It came from an article written by Dante and it basically rips Houdini to shreds. Dante starts with "First, he stole his name from the man who originated and made magic possible, Robert-Houdin". He goes on to expose Houdini's act and methods and make the claim that he could cuff Houdini in a way that would leave him bound, or lock him in a packing crate and he would not be able to get out. The way it's written he belittles the idea of an escape act though it's probably just his animosity towards Houdini more than anything. He says "Houdini the escape king? What can he escape from? So far, he has escaped criticism. This is the biggest trick he has ever done. Dante did not like Houdini and made no bones about it.
But it doesn't appear that Dante ventured into performing escapes until after Houdini had died (1926). This South American event happened either in late 1927 or early 1928. I've gone through a couple Dante biographies and can find no mention of an escape act in South America so perhaps it was not something he cared to record for posterity.
One other note, there was an escapologist who used the stage name Dante. This is mentioned in the book DANTE THE DEVIL HIMSELF by Phil Temple and even contains two photos of the escape artist Dante. I don't think however, the fellow who is mentioned in the Sphinx article is that person, it is definitely Harry Jansen, aka Dante.
In the coming months I'll share more with you about this fascinating character Harry Jansen, better known as DANTE.
