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Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 3rd, 2007, 2:30 pm
by Guest
The 1st Jimmy Grippo Video Online!

Watch Grippo fool Orson Welles here at BunnyBoyCollective

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 3rd, 2007, 7:18 pm
by Bob Gerdes
Great to finally see some video of the man!

Thanks for posting that.

Bob

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 4th, 2007, 4:43 pm
by Guest
In addition to watching Jimmy work (always a treat)the Bunny Boy Collective offers this amusing page.

http://www.bunnyboycollective.com/taboo ... vices.html

Individual Forum members will have to make up their own minds if this is a direction magic should go.

Perhaps a future article for Genii or perhaps Rodney and his friends won't kiss and tell? :rolleyes:

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 4th, 2007, 6:45 pm
by Guest
OK, the Steelers helmet was funny...great photography too. Lots of fun, for about five minutes!

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 4th, 2007, 9:34 pm
by Guest
Right Max....it was the 70s and you never wore bell bottoms. :confused:

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 5th, 2007, 4:59 am
by Guest
Nick, "black ads" right click through...Bell bottoms, and I remember being crammed at the door to Studio 54, body to body for a block...and when the bouncers pushed the group backwards, your body was at an angle that resembled a Michael Jackson video, but you wouldn't fall down because you were pressing on the next guy or gal, so it was like .....like...Ray Davies once told me that he was exiting a Football game back home and realized that he was walking, but his feet weren't touching the ground! (Two names dropped in :15 seconds, beat that)

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 5th, 2007, 5:43 am
by Guest
What I found funny about this video is Jimmy's almost groveling to Orson who wasn't engaged at all...Merv's doing much the same to Jimmy...Jimmy sort of ignoring Merv whose show it was.

Jimmy had met presidents and here he was trying to suck up to Orson when Orson was in his "wine whore" days. I believe off camera he called the wine he was hawking "piss," but he took their money.

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 5th, 2007, 7:14 am
by Jeff Eline
Originally posted by David Alexander:
Orson was in his "wine whore" days.
Wine outtakes

and

Frozen Peas outtakes

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 5th, 2007, 7:54 am
by Guest
It seems there's more than one way to "do a trick"!

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 9th, 2007, 8:26 pm
by Danny Archer
Yo Rodney,

thanks for sharing this great footage of Jimmy Grippo... I never had the chance to see him work and I really appreciate your sharing this with the brotherhood...

PS Really cool site!...

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 11th, 2007, 12:17 pm
by Guest
Thanks Danny.

Have you seen "Ricky Jays Banana Act", If not, your in for a treat. Only on the BBC.

Also I have a link to David Blaine's "Above the Below", his UK stunt. Never-before-seen in America. One of the most beautiful and moving films on endurance I have seen. Check back.

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 12th, 2007, 7:39 pm
by Geno Munari
Jimmy and I watched this show and he commented about the whole situation. Just to set the record correct, the postings here are not accurate.

Jimmy did not try to suck up to Wells. More to the story.

I hope the poster of the video does not get sued for copyright infringement.

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 13th, 2007, 3:40 am
by Guest
I think I've got Ricky doing the banana trick on Dinah!

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 15th, 2007, 7:10 pm
by Guest
Originally posted by David Alexander:


Individual Forum members will have to make up their own minds if this is a direction magic should go.

Hi Alexander,

in my opinion, creativity and self-expression is a direction everyone must go if we are to reach our fullest potential.

The BBC is a great site that will influence many artists of all kinds to step out of the box and say... "what box?"

Take good care,
Anthony R.

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 18th, 2007, 10:09 am
by Guest
yes a great video find along with the Dinah Shore show perf of Ricky. I think I saw that show. There were alot of variety shows that featured magic acts. jackie gleason, ed sullivan, shore, dick cavett, mike douglas, merv - i hope you can dig up more. I must have seen about 10 magicians on each of their shows.

I thought the grippo segment was done very well capturing his style nicely. Orson's unpredictable refusals to assist were met with Merv, in consideration of time, assumming the lead assistant job.
-sj

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 20th, 2007, 12:46 am
by Guest
i think i said to much, an edit has been made.

check back every-now and then, i might have something in store for everyone.

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 21st, 2007, 7:23 am
by Jim Maloney_dup1
For those interested, the current exhibition on the Conjuring Arts website is about Jimmy Grippo:

Who Was Jimmy Grippo?

-Jim

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 21st, 2007, 10:36 am
by Bob Gerdes
I can't get that Grippo exhibition to work... first page only partially loads.

Anyone else having trouble?

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 21st, 2007, 11:10 am
by Jim Maloney_dup1
Works fine for me. Do you have Flash installed? You'll need that to view the photos.

-Jim

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 21st, 2007, 11:50 am
by Bob Gerdes
I have flash installed, and the other exhibitions work fine.

The Grippo one is the only one that won't load for me.

Oh well.

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 21st, 2007, 12:06 pm
by Jim Maloney_dup1
Don't know what to say...contact CARC, I guess.

-Jim

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: December 21st, 2007, 5:17 pm
by Guest
Originally posted by AnthonyR:
Originally posted by David Alexander:
[b]

Individual Forum members will have to make up their own minds if this is a direction magic should go.

Hi Alexander,

in my opinion, creativity and self-expression is a direction everyone must go if we are to reach our fullest potential.

The BBC is a great site that will influence many artists of all kinds to step out of the box and say... "what box?"

Take good care,
Anthony R. [/b]
Anthony,
If you had actually clicked through to the link I made you would have seen that I was making a comment about these guys advertising themselves as "male escorts."

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: January 23rd, 2009, 7:59 pm
by dzejdzej
Is there any VHS on Jimmy Grippo magic?
Also, what about upcoming book?
Any news?

Re: Jimmy Grippo Online

Posted: January 23rd, 2009, 8:02 pm
by Magic Newswire
There's also an interesting exhibit on Grippo at the Conjuring Arts Research Center Website (ConjuringArts.org)