Warning: This Is A Violent Article

September, 1994

"Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking."--Frank Loesser in Standing on the Corner, 1956I have a goofy job. Part of it is to make it look like I'm killing my partner, Teller, while also making sure he's safe. Teller is in a tank of water--helpless, drowning, banging against the Plexiglas, struggling for a gasp of air, flailing, dying--and the crowd is dying laughing. This is a wonderful thing. It's a trick. Intellectually, the audience knows that Teller is OK. (If we ac...