Television
Arno has appeared on numerous television shows in the United States and abroad. Between 1972 and 1975, he had several of his own one-hour specials on the TROS network in Holland. On Late Night with David Letterman (December 1983) he stole Letterman's tie and heirloom watch. He was on HBO's Just for Laughs in 1989, and several times on ABC's 20/20 (November 3, 2000, June 22, 2001, July 30, 2004). He appeared in two of ITV's (UK) London Weekend Television series: Beware: Pickpockets (June 2000), and Beware: Street Thieves (July 2001), and in the BBC's History of Magic (2004). He made the Travel Channel's endlessly repeated Travel Scams & Rip--offs Revealed-Las Vegas as well as Las Vegas Caught on Tape and appeared as "the fastest fingers" on Ripley's Believe it or Not. His 1996 appearance on World's Greatest Magic III revived interest in theatrical pickpocketing.
Arno's foreign television credits are many, including appearances in Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Canada, Brazil, India and United Kingdom.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
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—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)
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—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)