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Steve Bryant

Thanks, Bill. I loved this.

Steve Bryant

Milt has an additional, similar routine with color changing dice in the Minch book, called Cups & Dice.

Steve Bryant

Milt Kort has such a routine in Kort Is Now in Session, by Milt, illustrated by Steranko. It is called Chromo Cups and Balls.

He has a different routine called Precognitive Cups and Balls in The Magic of Milt Kort, by Minch, illustrated by Sandy Kort.

Steve Bryant

Wow. This was fantastic. Supposedly an interview, it turned into one of the best magic lectures I have heard.

And David hooked me from the start. Where did that bunny go?

Steve Bryant

Awesome job, Dustin.

And thanks for a mention.

Steve Bryant

wow. Mike Elizalde's act is one of the best I have ever seen in the Close-up Gallery. Thanks for posting it.

Steve Bryant

I don't know if anyone has a record (tricks, gags, and patter) of Derman's Friday Night Lou act that he performed on Friday nights at the Magic Castle. It was a delightful act. He had a nephew, Nate the Great, who also performed in the early days of the Castle. I always thought a description of the ...

Steve Bryant

Several books of the type you mention are in this issue of Little Egypt Magic:

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic_june2009.html

Particularly, check Don Alan's Pretty Sneaky, Olson and Pearce's Sick Sorcery, and Lou Derman's Add Comedy to Your Act.

Derman's book contains 50 comedy card tricks.

Steve Bryant

Max, I was looking forward to "attending" the Sunday meeting, having apparently successfully registered on Thursday. Alas, I never received the authorization to sign in. Was that unique to me (and therefore somehow my fault, I assume), or were a sizable number of members excluded? I unders...

Steve Bryant

I contacted Garry Berman, who wrote the biography of Ed Wynn called Perfect Fool (2011). His response follows, which raises the question of who wrote the piece that Bill first posted. Garry's response: Thanks for your e-mail, and for thinking of me with this question. I've read the piece you include...

Steve Bryant

If El-Wyn was considered the original spook show performer, the doesn't support this statement in the Ed Wynn piece: "I hit on the idea of touring with my own spook show. Other people were making a lot of money with them, so why not me."

Steve Bryant

There are two books that would probably contain the desired info, PERFECT FOOL by Garry Berman (2011) and ED WYNN'S SON by Keenan Wynn (1959), but I cannot dig into them online. It would be fascinating if Ed Wynn ever did a spook show under any name and especially to learn what effects keenan might ...

Steve Bryant

Rats. What a year.

Matt treated me to a guided tour of the Magic Circle some years ago.

I admired him greatly.

Steve Bryant

Here is an extensive San Diego obituary for Jack. He had interests beyond magic that I was unaware of.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/ob ... diego-news

Steve Bryant

I am sorry to report that San Diego anchorman and magician Jack White has died, October 31.

Steve Bryant

Magiciana arrived in Indiana today. Oh, wow.

Steve Bryant

Here's a piece I posted in my September Little Egypt Magic yesterday: IN THE BOX ENTERTAINMENT – Here’s a new entertainment concept for the Covid age. I have often mentioned our local entertainment resource, Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP). For its new season, BPP is making four plays availabl...

Steve Bryant

Want to get stuck inside a zombie-ridden garage? Tokyo haas a drive through haunted house. $75!

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/toky ... index.html

Steve Bryant

It is 2:00 PM or so on Aug 24, the day after the Castle awards. The presentation is still online at magiccastle.com/awards, I think on purpose. If you missed it, or want to watch it again (I just did), take a look.

Steve

Steve Bryant

Thanks! Loved Sir Donald.

Steve Bryant

Bloomington Playwrights Project is pioneering a new virtual theater experience, an “In the Box” show. Four plays will be performed in which you receive a mystery box full of stuff with which to interact with the show. First play up is Virtual Reality/Magic in a Box starring mentalist Max Major. The ...

Steve Bryant

Danny Cole did t first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rALFNou60ug

Steve Bryant

I posted the August 2020 issue of Little Egypt Magic this week, marking year 25. I don't normally like to mention it, but I added a link this week to a magnetized cane performance (Michael Perovich) that is pretty cool. Pure Leipzig/no threads/real gasps. -- Steve http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.h...

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.

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