UPDATE: Find the address to send well wishes in the comments section on this post
Tom Mullica has been diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatment. This comes from an email to Dodd Vickers at the Magic Newswire who had hoped to interview the legendary performer.
Click through to MNW to read the full letter from Mullica’s camp.
We would like to offer our support to Tom as well as his friends and family in these trying times.
The National Association for Campus Activities (or NACA) conference wrapped up yesterday and Boston and with it, many magicians who count colleges as a main source of income again scattered across this great nation. Some folks happened to do it easier than others, just ask Alain Nu who posted this on his Facebook…
hit ice in a snowstorm on 95 south heading home from Boston today. Spun 360 degrees with several cars all around me as I swerved across three lanes and over a median strip without hitting a single car. Drove a rental the rest of the way home. Surreal… and on many different levels… glad to be home. We’ll see about my poor car later in the week…
We are very happy that Alain is safe but to everyone else making a living on the easier seaboard in the post-Snowmaggeddon era, please be careful.
File it under “Duh” but a magician who spent over two and half days in a block of ice was rushed the hospital with severe frostbite.
A magician is in the hospital with severe frostbite after spending more than 64 hours as a human ice cube to break a world record.
Gennady Palychevsky spent 64 hours and 32 minutes encased in ice to break David Blaine’s 10-year-old record.
According to Metro, Palychevsky was rushed to the hospital after signaling for help and staggering out of the ice in Moscow.
His wife says he was at first not in good shape, but is doing better now.
The Latvian illusionist bests Isreali endurance artist Hezi Dayan who broke Blaine’s record a month ago. It is safe to say we are now in a golden age of sitting in a block of ice whilst not completely freezing to death.
The Guest:
• Ivan Amodei
We talk with the author of the new book Magic’s Most Amazing Stories tells us some of the best tales from the book including an all time classic embarrassing thumb tip story.
- Trick Shop Magic Find out what is new including great stuff from John Kennedy, Dave Bendix, Peter Nardi and a classic from Corrinda.
An audience member fries Ellen on her own show. Big developments in the David Copperfield case. An update on Losander’s injury.
Newsmaker Interview: Steve Haynes The creator of Hand Out 500 talks with us about his beginnings in magic and all about his career as a bartender. Which tricks are absolutely killer from behind the bar? How drunk is optimally drunk for a spectator? How do you get chicks with bar magic? All is revealed!
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This from the Have You Heard newsletter written by Maria Ibâñez…
Dirk Losander, with the children in the vehicle, were hit by a drunk driver who ran through a traffic light. The children were treated and released after spending the night in the hospital, however, Losander remains hospitalized and is to undergo foot surgery before he can be discharged. Our thoughts and prayers, as I am sure are yours, go out to the family for a full and as speedy as possible recovery.
We wish Losander a very speedy recovery.
The Guests:
• Jeff Hobson
• Michael Mode
Why is the magic community so tight in Vegas and how do you know you’ve made it? How do you handle awful audience members? Who should play Doug Henning? How do you steal a TV producer’s purse with a magic trick?
Also, Hobson and Mode previews some jokes form their new iPhone app Best Jokes Ever.
- Trick Shop Magic Get $10 off The Dracula Book Test 2.0 if you buy now!
