PENN GILLETTE: `DAVID BLAINE IS A LAME MAGICIAN'

PENN GILLETTE: `DAVID BLAINE IS A LAME MAGICIAN'

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Magician David Blaine's ice freezing stunt may be casting a spell on magic fans but fellow magicians are giving him the cold shoulder. Penn Gillette of the Penn and Teller magic duo tells gossip reporter Baird Jones that Blaine is an "incredibly bad" magician who uses stunts that Siegfried and Roy "stopped doing in 5th grade." The 27-year-old Blaine hopes to break out of the chunk of ice tonight on an ABC-TV special and, while the stunt looks grueling, Gillette says it's easy as pie because the air in the ice is insulating him much like an Eskimo in an igloo. Gillette says Blaine is only popular because he's better looking than 99 percent of most magicians and he doesn't "have to pay a woman to stand next to him."