And I said, `Isn't it sad that's the only way he can think of?' ... And the second I said it, I'm going, `Oh, God.' |
And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking. |
At least it's showing that words have power. |
Every other magician says, `We're over here and you're there, and we're supposed to try and fool you because you're idiots,' |
Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas, |
For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true. |
Hefner does get blindsided, and I love that, |
I do think they're going after him just because he was too successful, |
I have never heard her say 'hell' or 'damn,' ... She's not coming. |
I said, 'Shut up! You're Jonas Salk.' He knew who I was. That blew my mind. |
I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie. |
I used to be snobby about Vegas, |
If there is room for Chris Bliss and there is, there's also room for Jason Garfield to make fun of him. |
In all honesty, I believe we're fair, and incredibly biased. These are two different things. On our show there are no ambushes. |
In the '60s, you know, you had this -- you'd have, you know, James Brown on the same show with Alan King, and that was -- that made perfect sense, and it still makes perfect sense, |