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For one of my specials, I said, I'm going to make an airplane disappear. Okay! And the next day, everything went crazy - it was like breaking the internet before the internet.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
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Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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