Lord of Illusions

In 1981, he made an airplane _________. Two years later, he made the Statue of Liberty _________. In 1986, he walked through the Great Wall of China. The following year, he escaped from Alcatraz.

Now, after nearly 30 years of entertaining the world with his mind-boggling abracadabra, master magician David Copperfield has just performed his latest trick - making himself _________ from the public eye altogether. (I mean, when was the last time we heard from/of the man?)