The Genii Forum

Richard Kaufman

There would have been nothing complicated about typing in all the new material and then inserting it into the original text where it should have been properly placed according to Martin's wishes.

Richard Kaufman

It's blue!

Richard Kaufman

My wedding anniversary is always Labor Day weekend. That makes it problematic.

Richard Kaufman

With Kickstarter, if a project does not get funded, you get your money back. With Indiegogo, you don't get squat back. With Kickstarter, if the project DOES get funded, there's still a chance you will get neither the product nor your money back. I have backed several Kickstarter projects from The My...

Richard Kaufman

Thank you. The experience that taught me the lesson about not advertising too early was David Roth's book in 1985. People paid, but it was at least a year late. Maybe more. I got slightly tripped up with both Tenyoism and DeLand, but they were printed in China and presented problems I had not previo...

Richard Kaufman

Well, I am yet again the in position of requesting someone to write an obituary for Genii--this time of John Cornelius. Even though I knew him since the 1970s, we only talked about magic. I don't even know what he did for a living! So, if anyone knows him well enough to do this and can knock out 500...

Richard Kaufman

Thanks for the tip, Brad: I bought half a dozen!

Richard Kaufman

Aside from the issues with the publishing schedule and Michael Weber's missing commentary, the larger issue (for me) is that all the material which Martin Gardner collected since the initial publication of the book was dumped in the back by scanning his index cards at a size that I found difficult i...

Richard Kaufman

He died at home on Sunday. Cause is not yet known. A good friend gone.

Richard Kaufman

Yes, it was Doug Bennett's--a coins across where the last coin goes through the rubber glove.

Richard Kaufman

I want to thank Chris for speaking publicly about these issues and we all wish him well. He can be reached at his email in the preceding message. Thanks!

Richard Kaufman

I have a good method for this. Came up with it in the 1970s but never published it.

Richard Kaufman

If anyone needed to be reminded that Criss Angel’s stardom exists mostly in his inflated head, we can see it plainly now with Copperfield doing 15 well attended shows a week and Angel, who has been fruitlessly chasing him for 15 years, relegated to ... 5?

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Richard Kaufman

Thanks, Chris. Most of us who behave stupidly when we're young eventually reach a breaking point and either we straighten out or drop out.
I accept your apology.
Please drop me a note at moobooks@verizon.net and we can chat more.

Richard Kaufman

Sounds great!

Richard Kaufman

Truly a pity!

Richard Kaufman

I use imgur. Very simple.

Richard Kaufman

Have you sent me an email regarding this? moobooks@verizon.net

Richard Kaufman

Can someone please explain to me what is going on in this thread?

Richard Kaufman

Just saw this terrible news on Facebook. No other details. He did not seem to be in ill health.

Richard Kaufman

My email address is moobooks@verizon.net

Richard Kaufman

I enjoyed San Antonio the last time I went to the TAOM there. The Riverwalk was quite nice.
You have a great lineup, and some of those folks are tempting me to come!

Richard Kaufman

The history of what was on the earliest TV broadcasts, which were private not public, or localized in a small area, is murky. At this point I would imagine it would be impossible to come up with a definitive and provable answer about the first magician to appear on TV.

Richard Kaufman

The Burnaby Kid wrote:Very quickly, the picture isn't racist. It's a reference to a meme involving Kimberly Wilkins from a news interview. Here's an interview with the lady afterwards on The View about the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH5YISZhs4c

It was indeed racist in the context in which it was used.

Richard Kaufman

Asking tourists to stand for an entire show is just plain dumb.

The article lost me as soon as I saw that racist photo in the middle.

Richard Kaufman

I.M. Magician wrote:So the Dollar Deck will be mailed to those who bought the Deluxe Edition shortly? Is that correct?

Yes.

Richard Kaufman

The tube contains the four uncut sheets and four decks. Glad to hear you received it.

Richard Kaufman

White tigers and lions are not meant to be saved from extinction. They are a genetic mutation that should be left on its own to die out. People in the world of animal conservation were always unhappy about what Siegfried and Roy were doing with the white cats, which disturbed the natural order.

Richard Kaufman

If you read all of the witness statements that Mullins linked to, you see one where it was stated that tapping the tiger on the nose was standard practice, and something the tigers were trained to respond to.

We will NEVER know the exact reason Mantecore flipped out.

Richard Kaufman

No hairspray, no beehive hairdo, no tall lady, no laser. Just an angry cat and Roy misjudged that. This might not happen today because most performers are wearing earpieces with audio fed in. If the stagehand saw that the cat was not behaving normally, the information could have been relayed to Roy ...

Richard Kaufman

Omigod! That really is a DeLand Duplex Changing Card. My jaw dropped.

Richard Kaufman

Pretty gruesome reading. I'm sure that there were a lot of people in the audience near the stage when it happened who have been having nightmares ever since.

Richard Kaufman

This latest news on Roy's accident seems to have stirred (at least among magicians) a number of varying responses. If anything, it seems only to indicate that the original "official" explanation(s) as to the cause of the accident were (and still are) somewhat unpalatable, if not completel...

Richard Kaufman

Bill, that's a creepy sexual thing with the tiger. Ick.

Richard Kaufman

Your logo looks a lot like David Blaine's!

Richard Kaufman

I've been doing "Quick 3 Way" with the alignment move since I was 14. Great trick. The alignment move works fine within it. There's not much that's "natural" about it, but it doesn't matter.

Richard Kaufman

A trainer brought an old lion to the Tannen Jubilee one year and they were walking around the lobby so people could take photos with it. Gave me the willies and I stayed away.

Richard Kaufman

Mr. DeLand told me that he is thrilled! It makes the three I have seem way inexpensive.

Richard Kaufman

They are more observation rather than opinion.

Richard Kaufman

I REALLY REALLY should have waited to sell mine!

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