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« on: 2003-04-10 15:48:30 » |
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Is that you, MagicJim?
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Knife Thrower Slices Assistant on Live TV
Apr 10, 9:57 am ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A record-breaking knife thrower shocked Britons on
Thursday when one of his daggers sliced into the head of his assistant
on live TV. Circus performer Jayde Hanson, 23, was demonstrating his
skills when one of his knives hit his assistant and girlfriend,
22-year-old Yana Rodianova.
As she clutched the side of her head, horrified presenter Fern Britton
shouted: "Oh my God, there is blood, quick -- get her off."
A spokeswoman for ITV's "This Morning," one of the country's most
popular daytime programs, said the wound was only "a nick."
"She's absolutely fine and recovering well," the spokeswoman said,
before adding ruefully: "You don't really expect that kind of thing from
a world record-holder."
Over one million viewers had been watching as Hanson, who works for the
British-based Cottle and Austen Circus, showed off how many knives he
could hurl at Yana in 60 seconds.
He had been trying to emulate the pace of his world record-breaking
effort of 120 knives thrown in two minutes which he achieved as part of
National Circus Day on Tuesday.
"He felt confident as he has been throwing his mother's kitchen knives
since the age of 10," the show said on its Web Site before the accident.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Hanson, whose father was an elephant tamer and
mother a trapeze artist, is currently having to advertise for a new
assistant as Yana, who bears two scars from previously mis-directed
knives, wants to concentrate on her hula-hoop act.
His previous assistant reportedly left the job after being hit in the
foot, her third injury from a wayward knife.
"In 11 years of performing, I've only hit my assistant on five
occasions," he told the Daily Mail newspaper recently.
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Re: virus: Knife Thrower Slices Assistant on Live TV
« Reply #1 on: 2003-04-10 16:38:14 » |
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[Walter Watts]
Is that you, MagicJim?
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Knife Thrower Slices Assistant on Live TV
Apr 10, 9:57 am ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A record-breaking knife thrower shocked Britons on
Thursday when one of his daggers sliced into the head of his assistant
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[rhinoceros]
I never met MagicJim, but that story reminded me of a very interesting
French
(pardon me the expression  ) movie that I saw some time ago: "La fille sur
le
pont" aka "The girl on the bridge", directed by Patrice Leconte (whose
movies
I have been following closely).
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0144201
"It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in
her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone
takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human
target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else
to go. So she follows him."
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