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...David Copperfield makes a volunteer disappear in 1 minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Minutes | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...OCCUPATION: waifish British supermodel BEST PUNCH: Former Johnny Depp squeeze reportedly called Schiffer's engagement to magician David Copperfield "phony and tasteless," suggesting they were really in love with each other's fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 29, 1999 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...playing Noble Eggleston, a pampered rich boy so accomplished he goes to both Harvard and Yale. Short moves on to impersonate an assortment of characters, from a wheezing old millionaire to a dictatorial German film director. He sings; he dances; he makes costume changes so fast even David Copperfield would be envious. Is this the hardest-working man in show business? Little Me was created in 1962 as a vehicle for Sid Caesar, who played seven different roles. For the new Broadway revival, Short plays eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Selling Short | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...Maddux "a master at late movement," a baseballese way of saying his pitches dance away at the end, eluding the bat when it's already flying forward. He connives to throw, from the same unhurried motion, at a wide variety of speeds. Wade Boggs once called Maddux "the David Copperfield of pitchers"--and he was thinking magic, not Dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greg Maddux: Gentle Tamer Of The Brutes | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...perfectly happy," says the political powerhouse, with a satisfied tone that barely betrays the chaos of appointments she has so carefully arranged like David Copperfield's indestructible house of cards. From the Council podium to administrative lunches and back to dinner in Adams house, Lamelle and her septanote have got it covered...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: For Rawlins, Two Lunches And Coffee Is Business as Usual | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

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