Everything Old is New Again

[ursangnome]

From Sci Fi Wire:

"Magician David Copperfield told the Reuters news service that he has found the Fountain of Youth in the southern Bahamas, amid a cluster of four tiny islands he recently bought for $50 million.

One of his islands in the Exuma chain, Musha Cay, is a private resort that rents for up to $300,000 a week.

Copperfield is coy about his reasons for the Fountain of Youth claim, but the man best known for entertaining with grand deception insists his archipelago also contains the legendary waters that bestow perpetual youth. Seriously.

"I've discovered a true phenomenon," Copperfield told Reuters in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting."

Copperfield, who turns 50 next month, said he has hired biologists and geologists to examine its potential effect on humans, but he's not inviting visitors to swim in or drink from it just yet."

So, performers at Mr. Copperfield's level tend to be a bit flakey. So the question is whether this is a ploy for a new television program, or is he serious?

Comments

[jducoeur]

Feels like a publicity stunt to me. But it's hard to be sure...

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Hard to say whether he's crazy, conniving, or both...