But he does it. There's no chance Blaine will guess the name of a loved one that a New Orleans resident thinks up, let alone cause it to be scrawled on his abdomen. But he does it. There's not even a remote possibility that Blaine can pull a swallowed thread out of his stomach, tattoo a card pulled out of a deck at random onto his chest, resurrect a dead fly or accomplish any of the other remarkable feats he performs during the hour-long special. But he does them all, on city streets and back roads all over the country.
Some people run in terror.
Others look with glazed expressions. Still others shriek in horror and giddiness. Which means Blaine can watch his own special on television. He does have a problem watching the feats of legerdemain on the small screen, however. Blaine, who has been doing magic since he was 4, says, we've seen the old gags before, like making the biggest thing possible disappear.