David Blaine Makes Mia Farrow Almost Disappear

David Blaine has found a new project: Mia Farrow. The 64-year-old activist/actress has tapped into the magician's bag of tricks to get some tips on how to endure a hunger strike. She started the fast on Monday, in the name of Darfur, and has been blogging about it on her website, saying, "Before I began this fast David Blaine (magician and endurance artist) called me. So kind of him. He told me a little about how to prepare and what to expect. He said after 6 days I won't feel hunger. He told me to drink 4 liters of water." Farrow only weighs in at 110 pounds, and will be living on a water-only diet for three weeks. She maintains: "What I am going through now is nothing compared what the people of Darfur are facing. When I feel hunger pangs and my head aches, I think of them." [via the Daily News]

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By Jen Carlson in News on April 30, 2009 12:55 PM

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NannyState

Why go through all of this drama? Just take some Ex-Lax and have a really good shit for Darfur.

maryjr

She wants to compete with the younger more "newsworthy" skeletons and they can't call her anorexic if it's a hunger strike.

Snoopy

Is Darfur in Idaho or Utah? Wasn't she the same skinny broad that Frank Sinatra married because he was into this gay little boy thing for a while? Or was she the surrogate mother that lived in John Lennon's apartment at the Dakota on CPW while John eloped with Paul? Oh Oh I know who's she is. She's the one that broke up the marriage between Diane Keaton and Al Pacino so that red headed little Jewish guy could ... I'm lost

felixthecat2

She weights 110 pound and will not eat for 3 weeks, it is a hunger strike. And I doubt she wants fame, she has been a humanitarian for decades. She is a very good woman who has sacrifice herself to help children and the poor.

Rob T Firefly

Surely this will solve the Darfur situation in some manner which I cannot currently fathom.

thefacts

Three weeks without food is a prolonged fast, not a hunger strike.

Hunger strikes proceed to the death until the demands are met.

ides_of_march

Celebrities don't give a crap about causes other than using them to seek attention for themselves.

moonbeam

Wouldn't it make more sense for her to volunteer her time or make a monetary donation? How does she think her fasting will help starving people?

ANGRYGOD11

The President of Sudan kicked out foreign aid organizations, so the people of Darfur can die. Giving money won't help them as the government is blocking all help. Short of a massive military intervention, only shaming the government (and the threat of future trials) can save these people who have nothing.