| 词条 | Johnny Fox (performer) | ||
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|name = Johnny Fox |birth_name = John Robert Fox |birth_date = {{birth date|1953|11|13}} |birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota |image = Johnny Fox performing at 2007 Maryland Renaissance Festival - 05.jpg |caption = Fox performing as a sword swallower at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in 2007 |occupation = Sword swallower, performer, magician |death_date = {{death date and age|2017|12|17|1953|11|13}} }}John Robert Fox (November 13, 1953 – December 17, 2017) was an American professional sword swallower and sleight of hand expert.[1][2][3] Early lifeFox was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota,[4] and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. He saw his first sword swallower at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts, when he was eight or nine years old.[2][5] At approximately the same age, his father gave him a book about Harry Houdini which inspired Fox—substituting spaghetti—to recreate the magician's trick of swallowing a key on a string and then regurgitating it.[5] Performance careerFox began performing magic and comedy while working as a waiter in Saint Petersburg, Florida.[6] He learned sleight-of-hand in the 1970s from Tony Slydini, an Italian magician known as "the Master of Misdirection".[2] In his early twenties, Fox was performing in Boulder, Colorado, when he heard that his act had been stolen by a competing magician.[5] He was inspired to begin swallowing swords in order to have "an act people couldn't copy easily".[5] It took him eight months to master the technique, although he injured himself on several occasions learning it.[5] Fox estimated in 1999 he was one of only twenty professional sword swallowers in the United States, noting there were many more than when he began.[5][6] Fox could swallow up to 22 inches of steel.[6] Besides swallowing regular swords, his act included swallowing a retractable tape measure, a giant screwdriver and a neon glowing sword plugged into an outlet.[5] His act also included eating fire-until he learned that the chemicals used in the trick could seep into his liver.[2] Fox appeared at such venues as comedy clubs, casinos, and tattoo conventions, as well as special events such as an Aerosmith album release party.[5][6] His television appearances include the Late Show with David Letterman, a 1992 Jonathan Winters television special, and a Maalox commercial in which he swallowed light bulbs.[5][6][7] He was featured in the 2003 documentary Traveling Sideshow: Shocked and Amazed by Jeff Krulik.[6] Fox was the resident sword-swallower at the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville, and performed there from 1981 through 2017.[6] Prior to the festival's 2017 season, the festival's Royal Stage, where Fox performed, was renamed to the Royal Fox Theatre in his honor.[1] He began performing at the Sterling Renaissance Festival in Sterling, New York in 1997.[8] He occasionally worked as a consultant for other sideshow artists.[2] FreakatoriumIn June 1999, Fox opened the Freakatorium, El Museo Loco, a museum of side show curiosities, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.[2] In the face of low numbers of visitors and rising rent, the museum was closed in January 2005.[2] Fox was partly inspired to open the museum by his childhood visits to Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square.[2] His collection of oddities includes narwhal tusks, an elephant's-foot liquor chest, a two-headed turtle, a vest owned by General Tom Thumb, and the glass eye of Sammy Davis, Jr..[2] Personal lifeFox married his wife, Valeria, an Argentine dancer and photographer, while they were atop elephants in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2002.[9] They resided in Seymour, Connecticut.[2] Illness and deathIn the fall of 2016, Fox was diagnosed with hepatitis-C and cirrhosis of the liver and tumors.[34] Then, in the winter of 2016, Fox slipped on black ice at his home in Connecticut which, combined with his liver problems, put him in a coma for several days.[10] After waking up from his coma, he received treatment in a cancer treatment facility in Arizona which specialized in alternative medicine. He later recovered enough to return to performing at the Maryland Renaissance Festival for the fall 2017 season.[10] Fox died on Sunday, December 17, 2017, of liver cancer, aged 64.[1] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/obituaries/ac-cn-sword-swallower-20171217-story.html|title=Remembering Ren Fest's Sword Swallower Johnny Fox|first=Selene San|last=Felice|website=Capitalgazette.com|accessdate=18 December 2017}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Feuer, Alan. "Pickled Piglets and Other Curiosities, in Exile." The New York Times, 2005-06-04, p. B1. 3. ^Genzlinger, Neil, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/obituaries/johnny-fox-sword-swallowing-showman-dies-at-64.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=obituaries&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Obituaries&action=keypress®ion=FixedRight&pgtype=article Johnny Fox, Sword-Swallowing Showman, Dies at 64], The New York Times, December 19, 2017 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909222456/http://www.johnnyfox.com/bio.html|title=Johnny Fox Biography|date=9 September 2011|website=Web.archive.org|accessdate=18 December 2017}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/06/nyregion/neighborhood-report-lower-east-side-a-man-who-lives-by-the-sword.html|title=Neighborhood Report – Lower East Side – A Man Who Lives by the Sword|last=Louie|first=Elaine|date=1999-06-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-09-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Montgomery, David. "Strange Attraction: As Sideshows Vanish from the Midway, a Film Recalls Their Glory Days." The Washington Post, 2003-10-24, p. C1. 7. ^"Open Up and Say AHHH!" CNN Live Today. 2002-09-03 8. ^Murphy, Justin. "Fare thee well for 2011." The Citizen (Auburn), 2011-08-22. 9. ^Lee, Jennifer. "A Sword-Swallowing Collector Closes an Odd Little Museum." The New York Times, 2005-01-01, p. B6. 10. ^1 2 {{cite news|last1=Boyle|first1=Tara|title=Sword Swallower Makes Triumphant Return As He Battles Severe Health Issues|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/557821266/sword-swallower-makes-triumphant-return-as-he-battles-severe-health-issues|accessdate=October 17, 2017|work=National Public Radio All Things Considered|date=October 14, 2017}} External links
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