The Genii Forum

Steve Bryant

Not lukewarm at all! I was extremely happy with this book. I usually try to highlight five tricks or so but found that impossible with Harry's latest. I couldn't limit my notes to only five. Indeed, looking at the review myself I was moved to spend today rehearsing a couple for any performance oppor...

Steve Bryant

Loved the book. My two cents are at Little Egypt Magic:

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

Steve Bryant

Frankly, i think it deceived you. I consider it icky to discuss Josh's method. Most of us have been in magic long enough to have an idea of what was going on. I certainly have an explanation, but don't know if it is Josh's explanation. But in "my" explanation, everyone involved except Josh...

Steve Bryant

Some of the comments here explain exactly why Josh had a spot on Fallon and forum contributors did not. Josh knew exactly what was needed, and he delivered.

Steve Bryant

The Latta book and DVD are excellent. Watching Latta's lovely Retention Vanish prompted me to dig out my promotional DVD of Mickey Silver doing his astounding Retention Vanish. Has anyone heard from Mickey lately, and whether his vanish is any closer to being released?

Steve Bryant

Thanks, Jack. I always loved that Steve Martin bit. And used to steal it.

BTW Steve and Martin Short were in town recently and just great. The live show was similar to but way better than the Netflix program.

Steve Bryant

Back in the nineties, when I started The Little Egypt Gazette, I posted a trick each month, but you had to guess the secret password to access the explanation. It was always the answer to a simple question, just to prove "you knew a little about magic." Google wasn't around yet, nor the Ma...

Steve Bryant

If you click on the Bill Malone clip at themagicwordpodcast.com, you will find Bill doing a card trick for Honor Blackman.

Steve Bryant

Check out more good news for Justin Willman:

https://www.themagicshow.com/about

Steve Bryant

Part One contains some really funny lines from Bob Lewis that you will find yourself repeating.

Steve Bryant

I posted most of my thoughts on Little Egypt Magic at the usual http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

I also recommend Scott's podcasts. I found his interview with Stan Allen at the end of day 4 to be the most interesting.

Steve Bryant

Our friend and photographer extraordinaire David Linsell passed away August 11. Here's a tribute that Julie Eng posted on Magicana:

https://www.magicana.com/news/blog/davi ... -1953-2018

Steve Bryant

Thanks for that, Johathan.

This one might have looked great on Penn and Teller, especially if he didn't return for the verdict:

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

Steve Bryant

The new issue contains a fine routine, Easy Poker, by David Britland. I like the use of the DF card and the strong plot. There is, I think, an even stronger version of the trick in Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations Volume 5, Nu-Way Intuitive Poker. The Trost version begins with a spectator-shuffled...

Steve Bryant

In the Day 4 podcast, Scott includes the entire Larry Haas speech to the Order of Merlin breakfast. Wisdom from Eugene Burger, worth a listen.

Steve Bryant

Love your article. You have sent me back to the Fisher bio for details.

Steve Bryant

I had nooo idea you were using a holdout. Just assumed you were a snappy dresser.

Steve Bryant

Mike Caveney wrote a really nice obit in the June MUM.

Steve Bryant

Tamariz's Close-up Rising Cards is really bothering me. Nice!

Steve Bryant

Lewis Jones has a practical version in his hardback collection Seventh Heaven, titled Calendar Card. He opens the trick with this bit of history: "The trick was invented by Ted Danson, and first appeared in The New Pentagram in March of 1970. In 1983, Danson's Diary Trick was published by Supre...

Steve Bryant

Here's a collection of Harry's appearances on Late Night with David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzDzHQ4sXXw Harry performs the Sliding Knot at about the 17-minute mark. I discuss Harry on both the April and May editions of Little Egypt Magic. -- Steve http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic...

Steve Bryant

Click on the Google logo today (5/3/18) for a cool Georges Melies tribute.

Steve Bryant

There is a wealth of new information in these books, including complete acts. Details at Little Egypt Magic.

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

Steve Bryant

Since 2015 or so, I've had two novels for sale, LUCAS MACKENZIE AND THE LONDON MIDNIGHT GHOST SHOW and MCGRAVE'S HOTEL. Both are about to go out of print immediately. I just checked, and both are still available for $14.99 paperback from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. If you are looking for a good rea...

Steve Bryant

The bit with flicking the pip is described in detail in Michael Perovich's The Vernon Companion.

Steve Bryant

A reprint of the ads alone would generate the interest.

Steve Bryant

Great idea. Himber was on the cover of the Sep-Oct 1963 issue, but it was a Magic from Manhattan issue, not a Himber issue. It was one of the issues I cherry picked before recycling years of Genii last month. Fine stuff from J. Benzais, Ken Krenzel, Harry Lorayne, Harvey Rosenthal, Lou Tannen, T.A. ...

Steve Bryant

Is More Genii Speaks working for everyone? It's the only link that isn't active or pink for me.

Otherwise, great issue. Couldn't put down the article about Randy.

Steve Bryant

I regret that there will be no Little Egypt Magic this month. My wife and I moved to new digs this week (together), and 60 years of magic stuff and 70 years of life stuff surround us in 150 big cardboard boxes. If only there were a magic convention a few hours' drive to take me away from all this. O...

Steve Bryant

Greg Frewin.

Steve Bryant

And the Castle occasionally honored Rose Marie:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angel ... s-20090715

Wonderful job again, Dustin.

Steve Bryant

The World of LORE by Aaron Mahnke, Atlas Obscura, Maps of the Disney Parks

Steve Bryant

For me the best book was Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations Volume 6. I reviewed it and all the others in my March Little Egypt Magic. Next, especially easy stuff: the new Impuzzibilities. And my favorite in December is Spoiler Alert, the review posted two days ago. Fun material.

Steve Bryant

Erika Larsen recently posted (Castle Facebook) a 1973 program for the AMA awards banquet. Rose Marie handed out the Lecturer of the Year award.

Steve Bryant

This is a fun podcast (as was the recent podcast with the Evasions), and it got me happily through an afternoon of leaf raking.

Genii subscribers are invited to turn back to the September 2002 Martin Lewis cover story for all sorts of fun stories and facts about Martin.

Steve Bryant

Still hoping for Jim Steinmeyer's Unexpected Impuzzibilities , advertised in Genii, to show up on his web site. Expected pub date?

Steve Bryant

Pardon me for mentioning my own site in not one but two threads. The latest (October) installment of Little Egypt Magic is now up at http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html. The installment contains a partial review of the Genii convention (I had to leave a day early), a review of the new Harry Loray...

Steve Bryant

I finally published my notes on the Genii convention at littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html. At least on 3/4 of the convention -- I had to leave a day early. The review appears along with a review of Harry Lorayne's new book, a three-part seance you can do in your home, and a farewell to Philip Morris. ...

Steve Bryant

The Paul Draper/Jason Andrews video should be mandatory viewing. This list of Terrible Things Magicians Say should be printed in Genii, and each of us should check our scripts to avoid these godawful lines.

Steve Bryant

There are general interest ads on the new site. I appreciated the algorithm that showed me a Barns&Noble ad that highlighted one of my novels. Nice targeting!

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