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I really cant stand this guy. David Blaine doesnt care about Criss Angel-he has better things to do with his time.

Oh, puh-lease...

Laura's loss of professional perspective clearly shines through in this literary babble of Criss Angel's so called accomplishments.

Hey, Laura, here's a new flash for ya. Go to You Tube, type in Criss Angel exposed, and you'll vomit at the number of amateurs (meaning non-magicians) who easily figured out Criss Angel's lame use of low end camera tricks and use of unemployed desperate actors.

I saw his show on Broadway twice, and it was little more than a tired birthday party magic show in drag conjuring up the same old dead tricks that had already been exposed on television by the masked magician.

His personality was dry and dull then, and it still is. The only thing that has changed with Criss Angel is that he now has the money to hire "consultants" to come up with new "tricks" each week.

It only shows A&E's desperation to pump anything through the airwaves, that they agree to this sideshow and poor excuse for good entertainment.

The real magic is how he conned executives at A&E into buying into his weekly parade of transparent camera tricks. His "vanish" of a Lamborghini was little more than stopping the video camera -- a stunt that a 12-year can reproduce with a $20 digital camcorder. This one was exposed last year when he did the same thing with the motorcycle vanish; amateur non-magicians posted the explanation and proof of that one on You Tube as well.

It is common knowledge that more than 70% of Criss Angels effects are done with people he pays $50 to be in his audience and sign confidentiality hush hush agreements. You can pick these out easily simply by counting the number of people in the audience. When he does a real trick that requires a little training, you see large crowds. When the audience is all unemployed actors being paid $50 to be there, you see only 20 - 40 people in the audience. The non-existent skill of these actors is quite obvious when they try their very best to pretend that they were stunned and amazed.

The weekly rantings of his brother and paid consultants babbling on about "Criss might die doing this" is getting quite old and tiresome. Must magic fans endure yet a third season of such sophmoric antics? Cant the suits at A&E step in and demand a tinge of professionalism in this third season?

C'mon, Laura, if you want to work full time as a journalist when you graduate, perhaps you might put on your thinking cap and use a little critical thinking for future articles!

HOLY SH*T!! David Blaine should really kiss criss angel's ass. Criss has won magician of the year 5 times and how many times has david blaine won?? give up? That's cause he has won NONE, ZIP, NADA, ZILCH, ZERO!!

We should all be thanking criss angel cause ha gave magic a kick in it's old tired ass!! He is definately a force to be reckoned with. I have met him 3 times and he is the most coolest awesomest person you will ever meet. He's not like david blaine who just says that he loves his fans but doesn't care if he has fans or if he stands alone. Whereas criss angel takes time out to be with his fans (like me). When i first met him at the Luxor on my vacation. he actually let me come into his suite to get to know the real criss angel, not just stand in the middle of the lobby to talk to him. And to all the haters who say that everything he does is fake WHY DON"T YOU ACTUALLY WATCH AN EPISODE AND I THINK YOU MAY JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND STOP TALKIN SMACK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!! As a matter of fact, i bet that if ant of you actually met him and got to know him like i do you would act like his biggest fan. Also i think that you would gain respect for his craft and also for him!!

XOXm
Criss's Gurl

OMG, what a living, walking, dingbat! Let me guess... You are also a big fan of Jerry Springer, right?

Sounds like you are brown nosing in hopes of becoming one of the brain dead who get hired to give a comment after each trick, "Like, um, wow, first it was there, and then it was gone!"

Criss Angel must've been totally stoned, lonely and desperate to invite such an airhead up to the penthouse suite of one of the most luxurious casino resorts in the United States! Did you thank him by inviting him back to your trailer park?

I've watched all of the episodes and, unlike you, I think before I speak.

Once again, just go to You Tube, and type in:

criss angel revealed

You'll see a ton of explanations of Criss' low level junior high school camera tricks, and use of stooges. Maybe you should send an email and volunteer to be one of his countless audience stooges!

Ooh.... new movie for Criss. Can't wait ^.^ The new season has been awsome so far so I'm looking forward to seeing more of him.

And Emerson, if you don't like Criss Angel, why are you even bothering to comment on this article? Why even bother reading it? Don't you have something else to do? Like have a life? Criss is an illusionist. Get it? Illusionist. He won't call himself a magician because he admits that most of his stunts are illusions. All of the other so-called "magicians" won't even admit to that fact and keep pretending that what they do is real. It's not real! Duh... It's --> illusions <-- done for our entertainment. Criss doesn't try to pretend otherwise and he's really good at what he does so there's no reason to try and put him down. I would love to see you suspend yourself from fishhooks and have a helicopter fly you around or have a steam roller run over you or set yourself on fire or levitate over the Luxor hotel. If you do that then talk all you want. But until that time: Get it through your mind that just because it's an illusion it's not garbage.

~*~FirEdhel~*~

FirEdhel,

Does your mommy know that you stay up that late watching A&E? Yeah, I'll bet you hid under the covers with your bah bah while watching some of those really scary episodes, huh? Yeahhh...

Every other magician / illusionist who has performed on television has agreed by the code of NOT using camera tricks. Then comes this cod, who does nothing but use endless camera tricks and plants in his audience.

The general rule is, if you cant do it in front of a live audience, then you shouldn't be "performing" the effect on television.

I can see that your threshold for entertainment is quite low, and so wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that you are also a big time fan of WWF, Gilligan's Island, and Saturday morning cartoons!

In case you missed it in the news, Criss Angel is married and his wife just sued him for divorce.

Criss Angel has been married to his wife, Joanne Sarantakos, for the last five years, and dated her for 10 years prior to that.

She is the ONLY one who put up with Criss all of those years, when he was working the ratholes of New York City doing his stupid little birthday party magic show. His heavy metal guitar music was awful, as was his magic skills as a performer and an entertainer.

And yet... Joanne Sarantakos still loved him and believed in his potential.

Fast forward a few years... Criss Angel finally makes it rich. Do you think he would reward Joanne and share some of the wealth. Not a penny!

As if that weren't bad enough, Criss has the nerve and audacity to perform in New York last month and dedicate his escape from a concete block to his hoe, Cameron Diaz, saying, "I love you!" while his wife stood silent and watched.

This exposes Criss Angel for the true low life he really is. He has always been a low life, and he always will be one.