VLVL2 (15): "foreign magician" passage

[Tim Strzechowski]

383.35: "But at least on the night Brock Vond was taken across the river, the night of no white diamonds or even chicken crank, the foreign magician and his blond tomato assistant, out stealing a couple of innocent hours away from the harsh demands of their Act, with its imitations of defiance, nightly and matinees, of gravity and death, only found themselves slowed to a paranoid dancers' embrace at the unquiet center of the roadhouse party crowd [...]"


Someone please explain.  To whom does "the foreign magician and his blond tomato assistant" refer?  Takeshi and DL?  If so, why?

If not, who?  Why?  Wha - ?

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