Magician David Blaine, says the Times, "has become disillusioned, as it were, with the money, the models and the movie-star treatment."

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To exacerbate or cure his malaise, he's going to lock himself in a plexiglass box suspended over the Thames in London. For 44 days. Without food. Which is really pretty cool: endurance art both as spectacle and as therapy.

Unfortunately for Mr. Blaine, he'll be subjected to 44 days of hearing the crowds below yell out, "Hey, isn't that Jon Lovitz in a box?"
A Magician Seeking Simplicity in a Cage [NYT]