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Nicholas Carifo

From International Business Times in the UK:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/40979 ... attack.htm

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Just received an official announcement today from Joshua Jay and Andi Gladwin who are leading the team keeping the Columbus Magi-Fest Alive! The dates are Jan 24-26, 2013. The website to register: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.magifest.org/">http://www.magifest.org/</a> Se...

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Rapper Tupac Shakur returned from the grave, via a high-tech version of "Pepper's Ghost", to perform onstage with Snoop Dog this week at the Coachella Music Festival in the California Desert. The video of the startling performance quickly went viral on You-Tube resulting in a plethora of m...

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Ian Kendall wrote:Bonobo? He named his clown after a group of randy apes?

lol... typo. The clown's name in the original 1950's run was Bonomo, named for Bonomo's Turkish Taffy, the sponsor. Not sure if Randi's version carried over the clown name, tho I believe the sponsor was the same.

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James (The Amazing) Randi actually starred as a later incarnation this show... Bonobo "The Magic Clown and he discusses it here:

http://itricks.com/randishow/?p=30

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As a loyal attendee myself, I looked forward to the Magi-Fest each year more than Christmas... Even as a kid! This morning, my email was full of friends shocked and saddened by this announcment. My friend Ray Lucas put it best: "It's like a death in the family". And that's what my experien...

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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.tabmantables.com">www.tabmantables.com</a> Due to sudden illness, The Witkowskis, the current owners of Tabman Tables and the Tabman USA line of magic products have reluctantly put the business up for immediate sale. Ray & Debbie Witkowski...

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Love this! The Vice President rockin' the french drop fora 3 year old :)

http://video.aol.com/video/3-year-old-t ... e_facebook

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Larry Bruno was a famous high school football coach AND a talented magician from Beaver Falls, PA. He was Joe Namaths mentor and HS Coach, and garners plenty of print in biographies of Mr. Namath. As an amateur magician, Bruno was one of the 8 founders of "The Mystic Magicians of Beaver Valley&...

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According to David Sandy's website... booked on that cruise, so presumably on the ship now are among many others: Rich Bloch, Stan Allen, Kalin and Jinger, Bob Sheets, Shoot Ogawa, Christopher Hart, Martin Lewis, Danny Cole, Chipper Lowell, Chad Long and of course David Sandy. I'm sure we have count...

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Above, Steve mentions his past experience with a particular Tabman Table, apparantly not being study. I do not own the table in question, however, for anyone interested, I was speaking the other day to Ray Witkowski, the new owner of the Tabman Tables line for the past few years who does a fantastic...

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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.wimp.com/freeculture/">http://www.wimp.com/freeculture/</a> The link above is to a video of a TED Talk directly related to the fashion industry, which apparantly like magic, has no copyright protection and designs can be legally copied. The TE...

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My definition of exposure is presenting magical secrets to people who haven't specifically bought a book or video, or gone into a magic shop, in order to see them. The Masked Magician is exposure. Books and magic sets for the lay public are not. I like Richard's definition. Succinct and to the poin...

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Anyone know if there are any magicians scheduled to appear on teh Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon this Labor Day Weekend... and what general times?

Nick

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Richard is correct, a year ago there indeed was quite a lot of magic for sale in the Main Street Magic Shop. Not advanced stuff mind you, but lots of actual magic effects and items. Regarding demonstrators.... back when DisneyWORLD in Florida had a magic shop, a magician freind of mine, Rich Howard ...

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One of my favorite memories of my early magic career was visiting the Main Street Magic Shop at Disney World in Orlando as a child. That shop is now gone, but I always enjoyed the fact that Disneyland in Anaheim continued the tradition of it's "Main Street Magic Shop", but now this too see...

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Also of note... that opening miss-introduction of Richard Kaufman instead of stan allen was a recorded intro by David Copperfield, who previously introduced himself by saying: "Sorry I couldn't be there with all you magicians at MagicLive, but I am currently walking the sugar-sand beaches of Co...

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I have no idea, Bill. But the movie was apparantly influenced by Kreskin, but not a biography of the actual Kreskin. No need to stick by any facts whatsoever. It's fiction influenced by Kreskin.

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Rented it last night. Loved it. Yes it played in the theatres here in LA anyway for about a month this past winter. Im happy to finally have seen it and am also going to purchase it. The character was inspired and somewhat based on Kreskin, but this is not a Kreskin biopic. So whether or not Kreskin...

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Optical Illusion Girlfriend... Based on you know what...

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91eiu_e ... re=channel

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Yes.. this has been talked about all week on magic forums. I posted a link here earlier this week under "buzz" on Genii to a FOX news story revealing the illusion and patent diagrams. Heres that link again: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/entertainment/music/...

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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/entertainment/music/dpgo_michael_jackson_smooth_criminal_lean_lwf_062909_2621894">http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/entertainmen ... 09_2621894</a> Fox LA just ran this story revealing the lean illusion, diagrams and explanations from...

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ok, this needs to stop and take a break already. Too many talented people all at one time.

Fred Travelina was one very talented man.

Nick

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<a class="postlink" href="http://omg.yahoo.com/news/michael-jacksons-best-friend-suspects-stress-led-to-cardiac-arrest/24344">http://omg.yahoo.com/news/michael-jacks ... rest/24344</a> From US Magazine Online: "Michael Jackson's close friend Uri Geller still can't fathom tha...

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Drew Thomas deserves any recognition he gets from AGT.. it was a nice surprise seeing him there. I haven't seen him in many years but Drew and I were two of many teenage magicians who would put together illusions each year to perform in the stage contests at the Columbus Magi-fest. They were fun day...

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"Tabman Tables" and props have always been some of the highest quality props built for magicians. As Tabby Crabb mentions in the website linked above, all of the Tabman Tables and props are still available at the same high quality standards from TABMAN TABLES ( <a class="postlink...

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A David Carradine/Magic Castle Anecdote from the Associated Press Obituary: Full Article Here: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtLjW61Ww5Z32FjMC3hNzRZo5F1wD98K5K0G0">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD98K5K0G0</a> -----------...

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Does anyone know if there is a magic lecturer scheduled to be at Boomers (Gary Darwins Magic Club) this wednesday in Las Vegas?

Nick

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:) Ah well... :)

Other than that definition... I have no idea why they would describe Lance as infamous...

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Tom Frame wrote:"...infamous Las Vegas Magician Lance Burton."

Infamous? Why infamous? Has he been engaging in some sort of nastiness?

Here's Why In-Famous:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egLjBsK9 ... re=related

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Among Copperfield fans, they may consider it (the magic of abc) to be his first special, but my point... ...is that he didn't and he felt it was so bad that he thought he would never get another shot on TV again. I think the way David felt about this show is the same way he felt about Terror Train....

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=Steve Pellegrino The Magic of ABC was "technically" David's first special. He actually doesn't count it as such (he may now, but years ago he didn't). The Magic of ABC, is popularly considered Copperfield's first Special.. However, there is an earlier special that can "arguably"...

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Catch the new Paul Kozak show at the Tropicana:

Thread Here:
http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubb ... Post183914

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I wish I could say I had a close relationship with Del Ray, but I did not ever have the opportunity to get to know him that well. I did however run to see him perform at any chance I got. I can remember the first time I saw him perform at the Columbus Magifest when I was kid. His close up was legend...

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Ben, At the moment there is no official video for sale of Del Ray...yet. There IS however a major dvd/book project in the works, I understand. Being that Del Ray is from my hometown of Pittsburgh, all of us from there who grew up in his magical shadow are anxiously awaiting this new project to be re...

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A press release was issued this past November announcing Kozak's Five Year Deal at the Trop. Here's an excerpt of the release that I posted on The Greater Pittsburgh Magic Network (Kozak's Hometown) in November: ---------------------------------------------- "Kozak Signs Five Year, Five Million...

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The show is a nothing, and at best, it's worthy of being ignored... like a crying toddler just looking for attention. I wouldn't have even known it was on if it were not for posts about it here. And, even then, I didn't watch it. I have no interest in the show and don't care what he does. And that's...

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In todays internet-google-happy environment... I suggest all magicians refrain from uttering ANY ACTUAL NAME OF A MARKETED EFFECT while performing. To say, "I'll show you a trick called MYSTERIO", just invites the google-crowd to find it easily in seconds. Even if it does not reveal the ef...

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In the meantime... for those wanting a NEW magic fix in Vegas... JEFF MCBRIDE, just debuted in his own new show at the Palace Station called "Magic at the Edge". It's only been up a couple weeks. I'm excited to be checking it out next week myself. I also understand Jeff has organized a fri...

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For years I have heard over and over about the high quality of David Sandy's events... his past conventions and especially the past Magic Cruises. It's been a number of years but I'm glad to see he decided to get another bird and another cage... and "do it again" :) I hope to be able to at...

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