• • The blogosphere was alive with photos and finger-pointing by many eye-witnesses who used the same word: CHEATING.
• • Typical of the comments from by-standers was this: "Is David Blaine cheating in his latest crazy stunt: hanging upside down for 60 hours in Central Park?"
• • Fans (or detractors) were clicking away as David Blaine was standing upright. His publicist was quick to catch the bullet, however, issuing a statement about the stuntman, who was, reportedly, taking merely three breaks per hour — — by standing up.
• • Patrick Smith, Blaine’s representative, did not dispute the cheating charge exactly. Like the (former) White House magician and spin-doctor Karl Rove, Patrick Smith was ever-ready with an explanation: “About once an hour he has to come down for a medical check, to stretch, and to relieve himself, because even David Blaine can’t do that upside down.”
• • All along, David Blaine was careful to let puzzled eye-witnesses in Central Park — — who watched him standing around on a platform — — know that there will be times when he must get his head above his heart.
• • Patrick Smith said, ”The doctors told him if he doesn’t do that, he will die.”
• • The up-side is that — — if this week's stunt truly did extinguish his hopes — — New Yorkers would be allowed to go back and enjoy our tranquil parks without the nuisance of 48 media outlets camped out "covering" one perfectly meaningless stunt and instead go back downtown to Wall Street where the financial stunt-makers are making the pension funds from Main Street America disappear.
• • But I digress.
• • Ultimately, it was the tireless, self-promoting magician-daredevil himself who announced that he was "dissatisfied" with the conclusion of his latest death-defying feat of hanging upside-down without a net high over Central Park for 60 hours.
• • Associated Press wrote: The 35-year-old endurance artist, who completed the stunt Wednesday night, expressed his disappointment in an appearance Thursday morning on "Live With Regis and Kelly."
• • "I had dreamed up the most amazing ending for a stunt ever," he said.
• • Blaine said his grand finale of diving from a platform 44 feet to the ground while attached to a harness didn't go according to plan. He was supposed to jump and, at 10 feet, be swept away by a bunch of helium-filled balloons.
• • Instead, he dangled awkwardly for a moment before disappearing in an ascent into the night sky.
• • Blaine said ABC, which aired the event in a two-hour special called "David Blaine: Dive of Death," had encouraged him not to dive because of high winds. Moreover, "I wasn't going to let everybody down, so I just jumped, and somehow the guys with the balloons made it work, and they pulled me slowly up and I went over into the park and they pulled me down," he said.
• • Blaine added: "I know that it didn't work right when all my friends called up and said, `Wait, what happened? I'm confused.'"
• • David Blaine confided, to anyone who would listen, that his head did feel "heavy" as he hung upside-down and he feared he would not make it. Valiantly, however, he did not want to wimp out [i.e., renege and forfeit any media coverage of this silliness nor lose any future lucrative promotional opportunities].
• • Speaking for myself and many New Yorkers, there is only one stunt we'd like David Blaine to undertake and ASAP — — make himself vanish. Forever. Please?
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