Watch Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young as they cover Carl Sagan Day featuring a talk from The Amazing James Randi.
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Watch Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young as they cover Carl Sagan Day featuring a talk from The Amazing James Randi.
The Guest:
• Andrew Mayne
How prestigious is performing at the White House? Who is the oddest celebrity you’ve ever seen perform magic? How hard is it to open a show in Las Vegas? Why do all the networks love the idea of magicians solving mysteries?
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For those who might have missed it live…
Thanks to everyone who helped make this a reality including David Nott, Barry & Stuart, Michael Shermer, Phil Plait, Penn Jillette, Teller and David Copperfield. Very special thanks to Brandon of the JREF for making sure this happened and, of course, to James Randi for allowing us the space and making a very special cameo at the beginning.
Before Houdini’s death, he famously gave his wife a code word. This was to prevent mediums and psychics from coming to her door, breathlessly confirming that they had spoken with Harry after his passing. With the word, she could immediately double check their work by asking if he’d passed along the secret message.
As time passed, the word (”believe”) slipped out. And even Criss Angel would agree that the word has officially outlived its usefulness.
So for our Houdini Seance, THIS SATURDAY at 9 p.m. EST LIVE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF iTRICKS.COM, we needed new words. Thankfully, we have some friends to help us out…
Author, speaker and editor of Skeptic Magazine Michael Shermer will help us with a word.
President of the Reason foundation, David Nott has agreed to contribute.
Magicians, BS artists and soon-to-be TV detectives Penn & Teller will EACH give us a word suitable for Harry Houdini himself to divine from beyond the grave.
All of those listed above are sending their words to James Randi who will seal them in envelopes and challenge us to discover their contents with the help of Houdini’s spirit.
But that is not all, expect more announcements today and tomorrow!
NBC orders their own magic detective series. A magician gets sued for not paying his advertising company, find out who. Tommy Wind has his show delayed.
Newsmaker Interview:
• Milt Larsen Magic Castle legend and organizer of the It’s Magic! show talks about the big performance at the Kodak Theater on November 8th.
The Guest:
• Chris Mayhew
How should Derren Brown handle the “magic fail” label? Would you work at Todd Robbins’ Fun House? Is a network TV tame Barry and Stuart the Barry and Stuart we want to see? How do momentary lapses in memory help a magician make their living?
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This weekend James Randi’s TAM London takes place in the UK, Randi joined the conference via a Skype Video Call, and in an after coffee Q&A session he spoke about many things including his respect for Derren Brown, but commenting on how he thought Derren was unwise to offer an explanation on the lottery prediction.
Commenting on the $1 Million Challenge, he stated that it would continue, and that suspending it was considered not ‘profitable’.
Also magic has been represented with Richard Wiseman performing an invisible deck routine, and a performance from Chris Cox
You can follow more of the updates via TAMLondon’s twitter account