Famed Magician Criss Angel Credits His Father for 'Making Me What I Am' (Part I)
June 9th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families
I heard an interesting interview with Criss Angel (pictured during a CBS performance), the famous magician/illusionist, on the radio in Los Angeles the other day. Angel is the creator and director of the Criss Angel Mindfreak television series on A&E Network. He is a five-time winner of the Magician of the Year award and has performed/appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Ellen DeGeneres show, and many others.
During the interview, Angel gave credit for much of his success to his father, who he said was his inspiration. He described his father's battle against cancer, how he lived far longer than the 3 weeks the doctors told him he had left because he wanted to see his grandchild born, and how he died in Angel's arms. Angel said it was his father who gave him his work ethic and taught him that he could succeed in this difficult profession.
His Wikipedia biography can be found here.
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June 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Human will is a wonderus thing. Daddy lived much longer than he should have, too. In his case about 2 years. His doctors had a lot to do with it, but his will is what kept him going for so long.
This morning my daughter graduated from JROTC summer camp (a basic training/boot camp sort of thing). They had a military band and Daddy really loved military bands. All I could think, the whole time I was sitting there, was how proud Daddy would have been of his first grandchild. If he was still alive he would have driven the 1200+ miles to be there. My pride in her had to be enough for both of us.
God bless Daddies everywhere!!
July 1st, 2007 at 2:10 am
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