Anybody else watching "Houdini"?

[Brigid]

It's kind of fun.

[avebury]

1. I missed it. I'll have to see if it makes it

to On Demand for my cable company.

[sakabatou]

2. Watched it and it's very interesting.

[Wait Wut]

3. Recording it.

I'm really looking forward to it. As a kid, probably 10 or so, I was obsessed by Houdini. Odd thing was/is, I've never liked magic.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Adrien Brody is good.

But the script is kinda stupid. He keeps doing voiceovers talking to himself about escaping from himself and making his mama proud.

Not much for him to chew on, so he will have to chew on the scenery (that's a term for bad acting).

[IDemo]

5. I don't have pay TV

but I have an indirect connection to Houdini. My grandfather sang in a Vaudeville act for a while and he and my grandmother toured with Houdini and Blackwell the magician at different times. Grandma used to tell me she and Beth Houdini became good friends and were stuck keeping each other company when the boys went drinking. There is a photo of them together somewhere along with many other ancient pictures. If the family member who has them can be convinced to dig them out of storage for copying, I'll post a couple here.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. As a boy, Houdini lived in Appleton, Wisconsin

Where his father was the local rabbi. There is one other notable person who came from Appleton, Senator Joseph McCarthy.

In Appleton, there is a school named for Houdini; there is no memorial to McCarthy (other than his gravestone).