tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post8554147051167283335..comments2024-03-28T08:03:31.442-07:00Comments on WILD ABOUT HARRY: Houdini at home -- "looks human"John Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-51752335848639119712015-03-09T11:28:12.869-07:002015-03-09T11:28:12.869-07:00Anyone 89 years old or older was alive in 1926.Anyone 89 years old or older was alive in 1926.Ericnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-34095503149424611172015-03-05T22:22:15.511-08:002015-03-05T22:22:15.511-08:00Not an uncommon observation. I've read where B...Not an uncommon observation. I've read where Bess had to stay on him to change his dirty clothes. I've never seen him look particularly sloppy in photos, but I'll cut him slack around his house and neighborhood on his own time. Leo Hevianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-87210101266546350522015-03-05T19:16:48.922-08:002015-03-05T19:16:48.922-08:00To take it one step further just about everyone wh...To take it one step further just about everyone who was on the planet in 1926 is now dead. All those people we see looking up from the street watching Houdini escape from a straightjacket......all....each and every one of them....long gone. On another note my father knew a man who was Houdinis neighbor in Harlem. How he described him was not flattering although it does jive with what we have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-44163976080123074412015-03-05T11:31:30.149-08:002015-03-05T11:31:30.149-08:00You got that right Anonymous. As Steve Miller sing...You got that right Anonymous. As Steve Miller sings "Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin, into the future."<br /><br />That the writer noted Houdini's humanity is telling. By 1926, he had become something of a living legend. Ruth Brandon notes at the end of her bio that a neighbor thought he never really existed, like a John Henry or Paul Bunyan character.Leo Hevianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-76182875585418208592015-03-04T18:43:44.113-08:002015-03-04T18:43:44.113-08:00I think all of us can envision Houdini late summer...I think all of us can envision Houdini late summer of 1926. Planning his tour, in the prime of his life. Several months later he is gone...years pass and here we are today. Not only is Houdini long gone but every single person who knew him or saw him perform are all now long dead. Life is fleeting and time moves relentlessly forward eventually overtaking us all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com