NEW YORK — Daredevil stuntman David Blaine lit up New York’s Pier 54 on Friday for his latest high voltage feat.

The illusionist is scheduled to spend three days and nights standing in the middle of a million volts of electric currents streamed by tesla coils.

The stunt is called “Electrified: One Million Volts Always On.” “Electrified” also is being streamed on YouTube, thanks to computing company Intel. Viewing stations are located in London, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney. Viewers at the stations are able to control the coils.

The 39-year-old Blaine is wearing a chainmail bodysuit as a barrier between himself and the electric currents.

Blaine’s past stunts include hanging upside down over Central Park, being buried alive and encased in a block of ice.

Brooks getting institute’s top honor

LOS ANGELES — It’ll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award.

The writer and director of comedy classics including “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein” and “History of the World: Part I” will receive the award at a gala tribute next June, AFI announced Friday.

The 86-year-old Brooks is the 41st recipient of the honor, which has gone to Hollywood legends including Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Morgan Freeman. He’s one of only 14 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

Streep gives $1 million to theater

NEW YORK — Meryl Streep has donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of its late founder, Joseph Papp, and the author Nora Ephron.

The announcement was timed to Thursday’s unveiling of the nonprofit’s $40 million face-lift of its historic headquarters in Astor Place.

Streep has performed for the Public for decades, starting in 1975 and including “Henry V” in 1976 and “Mother Courage and Her Children” in 2006. This summer, she played Juliet in a benefit reading of “Romeo and Juliet” in Central Park.

Ephron, who died in June, directed Streep in her portrayal of chef Julia Child in 2009’s “Julie & Julia.” And Streep played a version of Ephron herself in 1986’s “Heartburn.”

“Meryl is as great a citizen as she is an actor,” said Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the theater.