The Genii Forum

Steve Bryant

Sorry, I exhausted my supply a few years back.

I suggest you would be better served by The Little Egypt Book of Numbers, if you don't have it.

Steve Bryant

Derren Brown was not Andy. The real Andy's confession is now on line. Check it out.

Steve Bryant

Richard, I suspect he is referring t o this new download from Peter Eggink and Aeon Sun.

Check my review here:

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic_february2020.html

Steve Bryant

Has anyone tried to apply facial recognition software to the candidates? Might prove interesting.

Steve Bryant

Randi with a great Jay Marshall story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvvs1ZzFiSw

Steve Bryant

The print copy arrived in Indiana today (4/29/20).

Steve Bryant

Several times on Little Egypt Magic, I have reviewed performances I enjoyed at the BPP, or Bloomington Playwrights Project, whose magic-friendly director Chad Rabinovitz showcases original and contemporary plays only. Like most facilities that require live audiences, BPP is currently dark. To mainta...

Steve Bryant

So sorry to hear this. I just spent part of the weekend enjoying interviews with and by Joan Lawton, part of the Magic Castle Heritage Committee videos. Michael Perovich and Sara Ballantine interviewed her, and she interviewed Leo Behnke. Something I learned: I always knew Larry Jennings was a plumb...

Steve Bryant

I loved David's latest special and was intrigued by the stab trick. I had published a practical method back in Little Egypt Card Tricks and later in The Little Egypt Book of Ghosts. My starting point had been "Once in a Knife Time" by Carl Sten in Al Sharpe's Expert Card Chicanery (created...

Steve Bryant

I enjoyed it immensely. What fun to get to do card tricks for favorite basketball players. Or to showcase one's daughter.

Steve Bryant

Thanks, Nathan.

Loved it all, especially the writing.

Steve Bryant

Thank you, Tim. This is great.

Steve Bryant

David Kaye has created a great little ebook for the situation:
https://www.sillymagic.com/product/coronavirus-ebook/

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

Steve Bryant

Thanks! Though I am still gobsmacked by the sheer quantity of information in the Forte books.

Steve Bryant

That was great fun. Nice to be diverted for an hour.

Is the pandemic over yet?

Steve Bryant

In the David Ben bio of Vernon, David recounts the story of Vernon's first meeting with Cardini, at a silhouette and magic shop in NYC. In the story, both Vernon and Larry Gray show Cardini split fans, squaring with Vernon's assertion that he knew about split fans before ever meeting Cardini. Minor ...

Steve Bryant

Bill Goodwin is currently performing a series of Walton tricks on his From the Library segment on the Magic Castle/AMA newsletter.

Steve Bryant

Steve’s background section hints at a third volume down the road.

Steve Bryant

The new book "The life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini" by Joe Posnanski ALMOST got reviewed in the Jan 13 issue of The New Yorker. Thanks to a weird apparent screwup in this normally perfect magazine, it didn't. My online edition of that issue lists under Books/Briefly Noted: "Zed,&qu...

Steve Bryant

Great job, Dustin.

I too was surprised to learn about Pepka. It was always a joy to see him.

Steve Bryant

It's really hard to keep losing our idols.

I finally posted a few words at Little Egypt Magic.

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

Steve Bryant

Thank you.

Additional data is of course welcome.

Steve Bryant

Just curious. Does anyone know the general price of an Uber or Lyft ride from LAX to the Magic Castle? Or from Burbank?

Steve Bryant

Jim Steinmeyer? Nick Trost?

Steve Bryant

I was simply joking. Books themselves seem to outlast technology, hence my mention of the now quaint phonograph record that was included with RK's first edition of Spirit Theater. That record was a brilliant idea, by the way. For some of us it was the first time to hear Eugene Burger's voice.

Steve Bryant

It's a great read. If you want to spend some quality time with Eugene, get this book.

Further thoughts at

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

Steve Bryant

The book arrived today ... and it is gorgeous. Somewhere Eugene is smiling.

Back to reading ...

Steve Bryant

Hugely disappointing to see that Zabrecky is no longer on the schedule. He was the draw for me.

Is he ok?

Steve Bryant

Derren Brown is the subject of a huge article in the Oct 7 New Yorker, "Belief System" by Adam Green.

Steve Bryant

Arrived in Indiana. It’s stunning.

Steve Bryant

For complete details, I just published my review on Little Egypt Magic. The bulk of the book is a classy repackaging of all Annemann's writings before and after The Jinx. (The Jinx itself is provided on CD as a searchable pdf.) As to new ... There are two interesting forewords from Max Maven and Ste...

Steve Bryant

Yet another Mamet contribution:

http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/mamet_su19.html

Nice gag at the end.

Steve Bryant

Vernon describes the Houdini incident in his own words in The Vernon Touch, pp 187-189. He dates it to Chicago, 1919, though David Ben's research may be more accurate than Vernon's memory.

In both accounts, Ben's and Vernon's, the card is placed second from the top, not in the middle.

Steve Bryant

I don't think Tom fooled Teller if Teller had read the routine in Genii. "Quantum Logic" May 2014. Otherwise, i think he fooled the boys badly. The devil is in the details, and I don't think even Teller could have doped out the minute construction of the drawer boxes ( a new invention) or ...

Steve Bryant

Add Ricky Jay to the list of performers of classics.

Steve Bryant

I missed the convention but learned a lot from Scott Wells daily podcasts.

Steve Bryant

I discussed this with my wife at lunch. She recommends that you bake the potato first!

Steve Bryant

Richard should love Zabrecky's experience at Disneyland. And I thought Space Mountain was terrifying before reading this ...

Steve Bryant

Let's make these clickable ... Review: http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic_april2019.html Four more tricks reviewed: http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic_may2019.html Currrent issue of Little Egypt magic: http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html (two Amazing Johnthan documentaries, one Rob Zabrecky lecture)

Steve Bryant

Charlie can provide details. There was a problem at the printer, but it has been settled.

Review: littleegyptmagic.com/magic_april2019.html

Four more tricks reviewed: littleegyptmagic.com/magic_may2019.html

Currrent issue of Little Egypt magic: littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

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