Big enough of a shocker, Criss Angel managed to make Cameron Diaz appear magically as his girlfriend, but now, in the third season of his self-titled fecal excuse for an A&E show, even by A&E standards, and he’s looking to take illusion to the publicity stunt status like David Blaine has so sadly popularized. Criss Angel ain’t Houdini, let alone Blaine, Copperfield, Penn or Teller, but come June 4th in New York’s Time Square he’ll be encased in a block, the shape ostensibly chosen to match his head, and hoisted 40 feet off the ground.

The ambiguously straight 39 year old magi-illusionist will be shackled inside a steel reinforced four foot by four foot by four foot glass cube. The box will be lifted into the air, filled with three inches of concrete in full view of spectators, and he’ll then attempt to free himself and climb down to the parking lot before whatchamacallit, dying a horrible death, no matter how long over due.

Criss Angel isn’t just the biggest draw for A&E since “Evening at the Improv”, but also an eyeliner smattered clown of most hackneyed magical sorts. If you think for even a fraction of a second he’s anything less than predictable, Google his tricks and you’ll see what he’s really all about… Did I already say hackneyed? Thought so. He did get to nail Diaz, which is cool, but more of a discredit to her than a credit to him as a person than him as a celebrity.

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