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Issue Number: #1580
Date: Sunday 26th July 2020
Editor: Alan Watson QSM
www.watson.co.nz
E-mail: editor@magicnewzealand.com
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Hi here is the latest news
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1. Editor's Message
2. Coronavirus-Era Las Vegas Without Entertainment Is 'Jack S--T'
3. The African American Masters Of Magic
4. August Genii Magazine
5. Joe Stevens (Magic Dealer) On The Magic Word Podcast
6. IMPORTANT MESSAGE - FISM WCM Postponed Until July 2022
7. The Ace in the Hole!- John Carey #89
8. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany! #18
9. The Advantages Of Having A Personal Coach?
10. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
11. E-zine Archives
12. Privacy Policy and Copyright Notice

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1. Editor's Message
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2. Coronavirus-Era Las Vegas Without Entertainment Is 'Jack S--T'
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Article forwarded on by James Dean (US)

Fox News
Jillette: Coronavirus-era Las Vegas Without Entertainment Is 'Jack S--T'

Although the Las Vegas Strip is open, the world-famous shows remain shut down as COVID-19 cases rise.

Las Vegas - Celebrity magician and longtime Las Vegas resident Penn Jillette didn't mince words when asked to describe what Sin City is like without live entertainment.

"Vegas without entertainment is jack s--t," Jillette told Fox News. "It has to come back in some form and smart people are thinking of it."

While the iconic Las Vegas Strip reopened in June, the doors remain closed to some of the world's greatest shows as Nevada works to curb the rise in coronavirus cases.

Temperature scans, masks and plastic dividers: the 'new normal' guests can expect at Vegas casinos.

And although no one wants to get back onstage more than Penn & Teller, the duo is also in no rush -- stressing the importance of reopening safely.

Balance of article go to: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/penn-jillette-las-vegas-coronavirus-magic

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3. The African American Masters Of Magic
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Message by Kenrick Ice McDonald (US)

World Premiere - World Premiere - World Premiere

Witness the Phenomenal: The African American Masters Of Magic.

World Premiere page link is below.

On Saturday July 25, 2020, 2pm PST, 5pm EST, The African American Masters of Magic will premiere for the first time ever. Master Magician/Producer Kenrick Ice McDonald releases this magic event, featuring performances from 15 extraordinary African American Masters of Magic. Also, join the producer Ice in a live chat session 20 minutes before the Show, and 30 minutes after.

Please click the following link for access the premiere page https://youtu.be/GvI3FoTTc_M

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4. August Genii Magazine
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Message by Richard Kaufman (US)

Join us at www.geniimagazine.com as we turn to another excellent issue of Genii.

On our cover this month is that gremlin of the grocery, that devil of the dime store, that Candid Camera-style trickster, Michael Carbonaro. Over many seasons of his TV show The Carbonaro Effect, he has teased, tantalized, and amazed many unsuspecting people. A few years ago he took the show on the road, performing live in, well, Michael Carbonaro Live! It's been extremely well received and he'll be back on the road post-pandemic. * We also have an interesting article on how to set up and perform magic in video chat situations like Skype and Zoom from Dr. Will Houstoun and Steve Thompson.

Columns this month from Jon Racherbaumer, Roberto Mansilla, David Kaye, Helge Thun, David Britland, Jim Steinmeyer, John Gaughan, and "The Eye" and "Magicana." And of course there reviews at the back of the book. Obituaries include the legend Marvyn Roy and publisher Louis Falanga.

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5. Joe Stevens (Magic Dealer) On The Magic Word Podcast
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

This week we chat with a U.S. magic dealer who opened his doors in 1973 and has been a trailblazer and innovator in the magic community ever since. Joe Stevens, owner of Stevens Magic Emporium, is 84 years old and still comes to work six days a week. I truly believe that Joe stays alive because of his passion for magic.

Over the years he started the Greater Magic Video Library of professionally recorded magic lectures, which was an innovation at the time and featured top magicians in the field of the day. He also started the GeMiNi network which was a "dial-up" online forum long before it ever became a "thing." Joe started the Las Vegas Desert Seminar and he teamed up with Siegfried and Roy in creating one of the best social events of the magic convention year. Their catalog was completely different from the very beginning in that it was more than just a catalog, but also a magazine with content including articles on magicians of the day.

In this week's episode, Joe talks about most of these things plus he shares stories of Fred Kaps, Jay Marshall, Ken Brooke, Dai Vernon, Siegfried and Roy and many others.

You can download and listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts. But for more information, videos, photos, links, the blog, and more, then please visit: https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/569-joe-stevens And be sure to sign up for the weekly podletter where you can get up-to-date information on who is on the podcast each week, a suggestion from the archives, and a peek at the upcoming guest. We also notify you of any contests that are running where the podcast guests are giving away prizes to listeners.

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6. IMPORTANT MESSAGE - FISM WCM Postponed Until July 2022
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Message by Joan Caesar (Canada)

Dear friends in magic

Due to the various events that affected our lives in relation to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) including the fact that several of the continental qualifications could not take place in 2020, the organizers of the FISM WCM in Quebec along with FISM International, have made the decision to delay the FISM World Championship until July 25 - 30, 2022.

This decision was made:

·To allow the organizers to hold the FISM continental qualifications a year before FISM;

·Because we hope that the travel conditions will be optimal again at that time;

·Because we want all magicians to feel safe during their stay in Quebec City;

·Because we want to offer an event that meets the expectations of all participants;

We invite you to visit our website for further information. In addition, we are renegotiating the hotel rates. Some of them have already adjusted their offers and some are still checking the possibilities. If you have already booked your hotel, we recommend that you contact them directly to modify your dates.

We hope to welcome you in Quebec City in July 2022 and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@fismquebec2021.com

We thank you for your understanding.

The Organizing Committee FISM WCM Québec 2022 www.fismquebec2021.com

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7. The Ace in the Hole!- John Carey #89
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

The Ace in the Hole is a streamlined vanish and subsequent translocation of a card from between a spectators hands to under a drinking glass. Set the Aces face down on top of the deck with the Ace of Spades fourth from top. You will also require a duplicate Ace of Spades which you fold face down into a small package. Place this folded card inside your right side jacket pocket with a cigarette lighter and you are ready to work!

Take out a folded business card that has the message "There's an Ace in the hole!" written on the blank side. Place this folded card down on the table, underneath an inverted drinking glass. "Fifty two cards can sometimes be very confusing, so today, let's just use the four Aces!" Flip
the Aces face up on top of the deck and spread and display, in-jogging the Ace of Spades slightly.

Comment on how the Ace of Spades is the most mysterious Ace. Flip the packet face down and without any hesitation bring the palm-down right hand over the deck, push down on the injogged card and come away with just three Aces face down (pictured). This is a sleight of Mike Maxwell's called The Box Trot from Louis Falanga's Lake Tahoe Card Magic. Put the deck away in your pocket.

Execute a Stanyon Count, which is basically an Elmsley Count to pass off three cards as four. Ask a lady to extend a palm up hand and place the packet onto her hand and then have her trap it with her other hand, like a sandwich. " I need a little heat for this!" After you say this,
the right hand goes to the jacket pocket, finger-palms the folded Ace of Spades and comes out with the lighter. " Don't worry, I won't burn you!"

Ignite the lighter a few inches above their hands and make the moment. Ask your helper to open her hands to reveal just three cards. "The big bad Ace of Spades has vanished!" Allow this very strong moment to register a few beats and say nothing!

The left hand picks up the inverted glass and transfers it to the right hand. Ask the spectator to pick up the business card and unfold it and read out the message. This gives you more than enough misdirection to secretly load the folded Ace of Spades under the glass, which is then quietly tabled. Once they read out the message they will look over to the glass. "Oh my, there really is something in the hole!" Have them lift the glass and unfold the card to reveal that most mysterious Ace of Spades!

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8. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany! #18
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Message by Romany (UK)

Hello from the monastery.

I wasn't going to work in the gardens today but I find I can't pass an overgrown tree without putting on my gardening gloves and whipping out my cutters!

My time here has made me think about individual working styles. I've discovered that I REALLY don't like anyone telling me what to do. (Except lovely clever Bob Fitch, I'll listen to him any day!) In fact, if someone gives me a job, I will probably refuse to do it and find something else to do instead. Especially if I've been told not to do it. This morning I found myself chopping chunks out of a huge tree simply because my colleague wanted me to prune a different bush.

It made me think.

Did we become self-employed magicians because we don't want to be told what to do? Was my original determination to give up my business career to become a juggler fired by the fact that everyone said I couldn't do it?

I do remember feeling that they could stick their opinion and watch me prove them wrong. Yes, it took more than ten years before I actually made a profit professionally and twenty years before I won a magic competition but I don't think I ever lost that inner thinking of "I can and I will. Watch me."

I have the same feeling when people assume that because I'm now 51, I'll probably be hanging up my showbiz shoes. If you're surprised that people assume that, then you haven't noticed the absence of older female role models in our profession. This is probably a good thing. I don't mean the absence of older entertainers, I mean that this assumption that female magicians will only be young, slim and pretty makes me grit (and grind!) my teeth and fires up my rebellious nature.

If the fancy takes me, I will be a feisty, sassy, extremely experienced and professional old broad with proficient technical skills and a great act owning the stage and having huge fun. If I don't fancy it, I won't.

Now I've had a 'think' about that, I'm going home to my cottage to organise my magic shelves. I'm going the back way, through the forest and over the beach so that 'that' colleague who wants to give me gardening jobs won't even know I'm here!

With feisty magical best regards,
Romany

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9. The Advantages Of Having A Personal Coach?
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10. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
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Written by the late Tommy Orchard (The Amazing Orchante)

Hypnotic high-jinks - the funny side

I got a little ahead of myself in the last paragraph. By late afternoon we had the chairs sorted out so I filled up the bathtub with steaming hot water and wallowed in it for, according to Veronica,
hours, which meant nobody else was afforded the same luxury. Privileges of Rank! OUCH!!! - She's just 'belted' me one! 8 pm and the little town hall was nearly full - amazing really, considering how cold it was. Inside, the auditorium was akin to sitting inside an iceberg. It was bloody freezing!

When I called for volunteers to join me on the -'ice-rink' - that got a laugh (well, the temperature was SO minus something awful, I kept expecting the stage to transform into an ice field), several people shivered their way up to the stage where I got them seated, then this thrumming sound started up - it was the chair legs, vibrating against the stage floor as the volunteers, who were sitting on them, shook and trembled with the cold.

Under the circumstances any other sensible person, especially a hypnotist, would have cancelled the show. Apart from anything else, Arctic type temperatures such as we were experiencing, are not exactly conducive, in fact totally diametric, to placing a person/people into a hypnotic trance. So what did I do? Put them to sleep of course. How? The first thing I did was to tell them that, "only intelligent people can be hypnotised". This makes volunteers very attentive - nobody wants to be proved stupid!

Next I asked them to look up and to concentrate their attention on one solitary light bulb - then, with the use of powerful suggestions I said to them more or less as follows, "as you concentrate, the warm glowing light bulb will appear to grow larger and as it does, you are being bathed by its increasing warmth - you can feel its warmth even now. You are becoming so sleepy and warmer, sleepier - warmer" etc. etc. Gradually their shivering and shaking subsided and - out they went!

It really is a most incongruous sight, when sitting in freezing temperatures, to be watching several people swatting imaginary sand flies as they are basking on an equally imaginary, beautiful sandy beach on some far-off tropical island, somewhere in the Bahamas. It is also amazing to watch real beads of perspiration appear on their brows when told that the (imaginary) blazing tropical sun is becoming just a little too hot! There is nothing more powerful, than your imagination!

One night we did a show at the Waiouru army camp, which is only about 20 odd miles from Taihape. Apart from fighting through snow on the desert road to get there, we had a fabulous time and of course being the military, not only was the food fantastic the 'booze' was cheap!
They also had, heating - and lots of it! What 'sticks' in the memory about this particular show was a ten-year-old boy, who dressed in a full Scout's uniform, came up on the stage when I called for volunteers - he had obviously come (accompanied by his parents), straight from a scout club meeting.

There was a segment in my hypnotic show where I have told all the subject's that they are 'totally broke' and in sheer desperation, have gone to the races and bet their last dollar, backing a horse to win, against astronomical odds, because it has never won a race in its life. The horse's name is - 'Beadle Bomb', which comes from an old record of the same name, recorded by - 'Spike Jones and the City slickers'. On the record, this particular 'nag' runs last until right at the very end it finally, against all odds, wins! As you might imagine, all through the record the subjects are screaming and yelling - some are even cursing in sheer frustration but, when their horse finally comes in, all hell breaks loose as they whoop and holler as they collect their imagined winnings - that's in the 'millions'!

While everybody else was stuffing 'enormous wads of cash' into pockets and down their shirts, trousers, blouses and skirts, our little friend in his Scout's uniform, without any kind of 'hypnotic' suggestion from me, was making himself very busy, furtively skulking around, surreptitiously 'Picking Everybody's Bulging Pockets'. The entire audience erupted, everybody just fell about howling and screaming with laughter - everybody that is, except the little 'fella's' parents. They were flabbergasted! Just what in the hell were they teaching their son, down at that scout club! He's probably grown up to become a - tax inspector.

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