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That's true. For a time, the ban on television made me mad for it. At friends' houses, I gazed at Hawaii Five-O in rapture. But then I began to take pleasure from the fact that I was reading David Copperfield while everybody else was taking in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I found satisfaction in listening to the Mets on the radio instead of watching the telecast, and I could paint my toy soldiers at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION WAS NEVER IN THE FAMILY | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...COPPERFIELD V. PARIS MATCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Here's a new trick DAVID COPPERFIELD's learning: if you can't make something disappear, sue the people who created it. Paris Match says Copperfield's long engagement to CLAUDIA SCHIFFER is an illusion--something millions of males would dearly love to believe. The mag published a contract between Copperfield's German promoter and Schiffer that showed she was paid $20,000 for attending the 1993 show where the two met. The suit states that Paris Match added that the supermodel now gets paid for pretending to be Copperfield's fiance and doesn't even like him. Copperfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Scheduled to air within the next year or so: TV-movie versions of Moby Dick and David Copperfield for the USA and Turner networks respectively, not to mention a sweeping Crime and Punishment mini-series for NBC. Meanwhile, Halmi is also working to bring versions of Animal Farm, The Raven and Dante's Inferno to the small screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: FORGET CLIFFS NOTES | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...walked through the Great Wall of China, levitated himself across the Grand Canyon and "vanished" the Statue of Liberty (though we suspect he just got it to duck underwater). Now Vegas megamagician David Copperfield attempts his most astounding feat: filling a Broadway theater with skeptical New Yorkers paying up to $67.50 a seat, drinks not included. Aided by playwright David Ives, designer Eiko Ishioka and creative adviser Francis Ford Coppola, Copperfield will present his outsize illusions in 76 shows starting Nov. 26 at the Martin Beck Theater. One secret he won't reveal: how he got Claudia Schiffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOUNTY OF HOLIDAY TREATS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

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