There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of ...
Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.
Passion is the motto of all my actions.
As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
Feeling better is not actually being better.
One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.
Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
I am still working on patter and presentation.
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
It's important to me to create the largest wonder.
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
I would put my million dollars up as well.
I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
