Atlanta rapper Ludacriss teams up with Criss Angel on this track Mindfreak left off his last album Theater of the Mind. In case I have to say it, the rap song is NSFW.
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Atlanta rapper Ludacriss teams up with Criss Angel on this track Mindfreak left off his last album Theater of the Mind. In case I have to say it, the rap song is NSFW.
We can’t make this up. Criss Angel has commissioned and will receive a new motorcycle constructed from human bones once used for medical testing, according to Robin Leach.
A new $100,000 motorcycle made from human skeleton will be delivered to Mindfreak magician Criss Angel this weekend at his Cirque du Soleil show Believe at the Luxor. The folks at Big Bear Choppers made the custom super bike from bones dipped in stainless steel for the frame. A Georgia foundry cast the purchased bones that had been discarded after medical purposes.
Kevin and Mona Alsop from Big Bear Lake in California manufactured the machine and were featured on last season’s Mindfreak. It’s the seventh bike they’ve built for Criss, who plans to add it to illusions being created for Believe starting in mid-April and then keep it at his home. The other six are on display at the Luxor.
The bike will reportedly be used in one of the new Believe illusions.
Criss Angel Believe is again in the TicketNews.com Vegas Top Ten. With big changes looming to the show, it will be curious to see how these scores are affected.
Above is Perez Hilton attending the premiere of Cirque du Soleil’s new show Viva Elvis on Friday. Early Monday Morning, Angel responded on his Twitter account:
A special thanx 2 PH 4 the shirt support. I knew I’d grow on him… Lol:)
Btw “PH” is Perez Hilton…
Of course, these two have a bit of a history. Feel free to catch up.
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UPDATE: The original post claimed that this would be Criss’ biggest television audience. That is comically wrong and is now corrected in the body of the post.
A lot of people will see Criss Angel when he steps inside the squared circle March 8th on WWE’s Monday Night RAW. The wrestling institution is routinely among the top cable programs of the week, but even for the numbers Vince McMahon’s operation is used to doing, that particular Monday will be something special.
That’s the day Vince goes back to war and Angel will be there to help fire the first shots.
On March 8th, rival organization Total Nonstop Action wrestling is moving its own flagship show Impact! to Monday nights so they can go head to head with the WWE. TNA recently overhauled their image by adding plenty of household names like Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan to their roster. The new faces were officially introduced in a special Monday night broadcast on January 5th which produced record ratings for TNA.
But it also produced a big number for the WWE. That’s because the industry leader counter programmed with a Pay Per View-worthy card and the return of legend Bret Hart, who had not been seen in a WWE ring since a legendary 1997 behind-the-scenes incident in Montreal led to a decade plus of vitriolic acrimony between both parties.
Long story short, Vince McMahon doesn’t like to lose. The last Monday Night Ratings War between he and the since-absorbed WCW led to one of the most colorful battles in the history of cable television. Viewership bloomed for both companies and professional wrestling was ushered into a golden age for both cultural relevance and creativity.
During the January 5th RAW, the peak was a 4.4 rating or roughly five million viewers. Compare that with the most watched episode of Mindfreak, the live Building Implosion, which drew about 2.2 million. Adding further perspective, David Letterman’s biggest ratings most recently came when he admitted he had engaged in an affair with a staff writer and was being blackmailed. That particular show drew an estimated 5.8 million viewers. Criss’ last appearance surely drew something far south of that.
UPDATE: However, Criss has had plenty of other bigger audiences, as was pointed out by iTricks Publisher Andrew Mayne in the comments. For example, the first episode of NBC’s Phenomenon starring Criss got 8.3 million viewers and a 5.2 rating. And his appearance on CSI: NY did about 12 million. And then there is the Oprah appearance at about 6 million.
On March 8th, TNA has already announced their main event will feature Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair squaring off. Vince is sure to counter with something to steal the rival promotions thunder. Criss will inadvertently be given a great opportunity to turn his biggest audience into Mindfreak fans.
The question is now, how will he use it?
Quite possibly the most recognizable creative force in the history of Cirque du Soleil, Franco Dragone is the creator of O, Mystère and La Nouba in Walt Disney World. It was shortly after the completion of those productions he left the company. He is still civil with his “former family” and he defends what is quite possibly the most critically maligned show in Cirque’s recent history: Criss Angel Believe.
According to this interview with Steve Friess of the Las Vegas Sun, the issues with the show do not lie on the shoulders of its star.
Dragone, it may surprise many, “will be maybe the only defender of Believe,” which he called “a beautiful production.” There are two reasons for this. First, the creator of rough-starting Le Rêve for Wynn Las Vegas has a soft spot for anyone being relentlessly and unanimously pounded by critics. And, secondly, he’s friends with Angel and the two of them once — and I didn’t know this — shopped a show together to a wisely unsold Steve Wynn.
So, having had a vision of what Angel could have done under his tutelage, Dragone seems to be saying the show, not the star, is the downfall: “It’s just a writing problem. It’s a staging problem.” And that seems to circle back to Dragone’s not-so-unspoken critique of Cirque’s dramatic expansion, the notion that if you try to do too much all at once you end up relying on a formula.
“The danger when you do too many shows is that you think that with the costumes, light, money, and tricks and performers, you do a show,” he said. “I think it’s more subtle than this.”
We are very curious to see how the show dreamed up between Angle and Dragone differed from the one currently playing on stage at the Luxor.