Blaine was widely mocked by the British press during his "Above the Below" stunt in 2003 in which was isolated without food in a clear box suspended above the River Thames. David was in London this week and met with a room filled with some of these critics, yet seems to have tuned the tide of their opinion in his favor. Writing for the Telegraph, Andrew Pierce says of the encounter, "I fully expected him to be an unbearable show-off; a brash, doncha-know-how-clever-I-am Yank. I was wrong. As usual. He was not only warm, engaging and charming, he was electrifyingly brilliant." Pierce continues, "We were, to a man and woman, left shaking our heads in disbelief at the power of Blaine’s sorcery. I had previously been convinced that he had cheated his way through his stunts — when he immersed himself for three days in six tons of ice in New York; when he stayed under water without breathing for 17 minutes; when he buried himself alive in a coffin. I don’t think that now. Harry Potter eat your heart out. Blaine really does magic. " READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE