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- May 20th, 2010, 6:14 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Co-staring Kieth Davis as Max Merlani
- Replies: 0
- Views: 662
- July 25th, 2009, 9:13 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon headlines Casino show
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2248
- June 20th, 2009, 3:15 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Seranko and Mission Impossible ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1483
Seranko and Mission Impossible ?
Is there any truth to the old rumor that the TV show "Mission Impossible" was based on the Steranko Escapes issue of Genii ?
- June 3rd, 2009, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Classic Effects
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5487
Re: Classic Effects
[ you should find Magic Without Apparatus by Gaultier and read that. [/quote]
Would but some kind person reprint the Fleming Classics.
Would but some kind person reprint the Fleming Classics.
- May 7th, 2009, 8:55 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: No More Gaffed Cards from USPPC?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8077
Re: No More Gaffed Cards from USPPC?
USPCC has printed one last run of the Boris Wild marked deck. No more.
They are allowing existing customer to have one one final print run of cards that
they feel might somehow weaken trademark protection. Jobbers are already out of
some mixed gaffed deck.
They are allowing existing customer to have one one final print run of cards that
they feel might somehow weaken trademark protection. Jobbers are already out of
some mixed gaffed deck.
Re: Carol Roy
I hope someone will collect all of her delightful and insightful magazine writings in book form. They are too precious to lose.
- April 13th, 2009, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Uri
- Replies: 139
- Views: 50670
Re: Uri
Geller is the highest, best known, psychic entertainer of all times. He invented a new class of magic effect, metal bending. Richard is absolutely right to have him on the cover.
David Sweeney
Memphis, Tn.
David Sweeney
Memphis, Tn.
- January 23rd, 2009, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: BoM: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer
- Replies: 35
- Views: 55280
Re: BoM: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer
David, Can you expand on why you feel this book is so puerile? Were you already completely aware of how all those miracles were accomplished? Had you already heard every vignette he shared with us? Well, yes..... That was my point. Pretty much all the material in this book comes from: Art & Art...
- January 23rd, 2009, 10:56 am
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: BoM: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer
- Replies: 35
- Views: 55280
Re: BoM: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer
David, You must have a dazzling knowledge of magical history if you find Steinmeyer's writings so elementary. I, for one, would like to know how you came to be so very knowledgeable. Since Steinmeyer had a significant number of vignettes and illusion descriptions that, within his writings, are uniq...
- January 22nd, 2009, 9:18 pm
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: BoM: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer
- Replies: 35
- Views: 55280
Re: BoM: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer
"Hiding the Elephant " is an fine book for layman and newcomers to magic history; however. For readers already familiar with Steinmeyer's writings it contains NOTHING new.
- November 30th, 2008, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Mystery novels with a magic theme
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19632
Re: Mystery novels with a magic theme
All of the Tony Valentine novels of James Swain, starting with "Grift Sense".
"The Spirit Cabinet" by Paul Quarrington.
"The Spirit Cabinet" by Paul Quarrington.
- August 18th, 2008, 8:51 pm
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: BoM: Milo & Roger by Arthur Brandon
- Replies: 51
- Views: 69828
Re: BoM: Milo & Roger by Arthur Brandon
" Catching up with Milo and Roger " is a must have for anyone reading this thread. There are only 250 printed and I have #172. The story of how the collection survived and got published is a real Milo moment.
- June 27th, 2008, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: A free magic kit...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1610
- June 13th, 2008, 9:04 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: The Mentalist on CBS Fall Lineup
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3218
Re: The Mentalist on CBS Fall Lineup
In "Psych", Shawn Spencer (played by James Roday) is passing himself off as a genuine psychic. From my understanding of "The Mentalist", Simon Baker's character, Patrick Jane, is a former stage mentalist -- I don't believe he's making any claims that he is a genuine psychic, how...
- June 13th, 2008, 4:06 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Harper's Magazine
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9007
Harper's Magazine
The current, July 2008, Harper's Magazine ( not Harper's Bizzare) has a 13 page story by Alex Stone, about competing in the FISM.
- May 10th, 2008, 3:47 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: The late John Pomory called fabricator and liar.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4814
- April 15th, 2008, 7:37 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: The late John Pomory called fabricator and liar.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4814
Re: The late John Pomory called fabricator and lia
As I said above, Jeff Smith's answer to me on Magic Cafe linked to a page of the Soapy Smith website where the words fabreicater and liar (three times) were used to about John Pomeroy. This is the whole of my objection. The link now leads to another page, and I could find no mention of Mr. Pomeroy. ...
- March 28th, 2008, 11:53 am
- Forum: Children's Entertainment
- Topic: March is Abracadabra month at the Cub Scouts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5206
- March 28th, 2008, 1:21 am
- Forum: Children's Entertainment
- Topic: March is Abracadabra month at the Cub Scouts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5206
Re: March is Abracadabra month at the Cub Scouts
Thank you. I'll sty to book some extra Blue & Golds next year.
My Blue & Gold show is my regular (adult) club act with Magic Inc.'s "cubber" after the opening.
My Blue & Gold show is my regular (adult) club act with Magic Inc.'s "cubber" after the opening.
- March 23rd, 2008, 7:44 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: The late John Pomory called fabricator and liar.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4814
Re: The late John Pomory called fabricator and lia
John Pomeroy is no named in the Magic Cafe posting however it does link to the Soapy Smith page where Jeff Smith says "John Pomory most probably lied to me". I have a problem with someone attacking a respected historian who is not around to defend himself. He uses the word fabreicater and ...
- March 23rd, 2008, 4:08 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: The late John Pomory called fabricator and liar.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4814
The late John Pomory called fabricator and liar.
A person hiding behind the name Siverking and a man with a new book about Soapy Smith have posted on the green site, at School for Scoundrals, and on the Soap Smith web site, calling the late magic historian john Pomeroy a liar and a fabrecater. "Silverking' wrote The Alexander stuff is utter c...
- March 21st, 2008, 9:47 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Magic Tricks in Make Magazine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3969
- October 28th, 2005, 7:52 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: historical figures who are magicians
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8672
Re: historical figures who are magicians
Sen. Hillery Clinton (D.NY) had an uncle who was a skilled card man and a bartender at the Ivanhoe in Chicago.
- October 22nd, 2005, 7:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Ormond McGill Gone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6418
Re: Ormond McGill Gone
Ormand McGill's Psychic Magic was the first magic book(s) I ever bought, about 1956. The chapter on the presintation of the miracle shoud be tatooed on every mentalest and bizzare preformer. In the fifties we saw Blackstone Sr. and the Dr. Zome show every year. In my openion the McGill was by far th...
- November 3rd, 2004, 8:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: chappy brazil
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5973
Re: chappy brazil
I met Chappy Brazil in Las Vegas. I saw him do walk around magic at Ceasars Magical Empire. I watched as he stole watches and did a very funny coin routine where he continually pulled coins from a woman's chest, gradually the coins became larger and he finally produced a 4.5" coin to thunderous...
- October 9th, 2003, 11:52 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Matchstick Men
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1632
Re: Matchstick Men
I haven't seen the movie but just finished the book. I thought the book was very slow reading and the cons/scams described were not that interesting (except the ending). If the author was trying to be accurate in his descriptions of the cons, he lost me when he described a three card monte scene. Th...