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Issue Number: #1594
Date: Sunday 1st November 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. Editors Message
2. Magic New Zealand Ezine is 21 Years Old
3. David Copperfield - National Museum Of American Jewish History
4. November Genii Magazine
5. Aiden Sinclair On The Magic Word Podcast
6. Count Us In! - John Carey #99
7. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany! #31
8. Potter & Potter Auctions
9. Ken Brooke Special Limited Edition
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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If you would like to read the Magic New Zealand e-zine in HTML format
go to: http://www.magicnewzealand.com/ezine-archive/2020-Jan-to-Dec-2020/1594-Nov01-2020.html

If you would like to write a regular column for Magic New Zealand or have some magic news drop me a line:
Editor@MagicNewZealand.com

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2. Magic New Zealand Ezine is 21 Years Old
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Message by Alan Watson - Editor Magic New Zealand

Time for a celebration … where has the last 21 years vanished to??

The first issue of Magic New Zealand was published on 6th November 1999.
All back issues of Magic New Zealand ezine and News Flashes are archived at:

www.magicnewzealand.com

Click on the red button centre right "Archives"

When you enter the archive the e-zines are in issue order in folders for each year and are coded, e.g. 001 Nov06 1999.txt first three numbers (001) denote issue number, then the date (Nov06) and the last figures is the year (1999).

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3. David Copperfield - National Museum Of American Jewish History
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Article by Peter Phillips (US)

USA Today

National Museum of American Jewish History to honor magicians Houdini, David Copperfield

The Philadelphia-based National Museum of American Jewish History will honor two men who entertained the world with their magic.

The museum announced it will induct illusionists Harry Houdini and David Copperfield into its Hall of Fame on December 12. The museum says the award recognizes the achievements and contributions of American Jews "who share and exemplify the ideals of the stories explored in the museum".

Houdini was born Erik Weisz in Hungary in 1874 and came to America when he was 4 years old. The son of a rabbi, he toured the U.S. and the world as a magician until his death in 1926 at age 52.

Copperfield, 64, was born David Kotkin in New Jersey. He has earned 21 Emmy Awards, and will accept the honor from his International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts in Las Vegas.

"From immigrant Harry Houdini to first-generation American David Copperfield, this event clearly demonstrates what's possible when individuals are simply given the chance to be great," said museum trustee Sharon Tobin Kestenbaum.

Previous recipients of the museum's award include the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and director Steven Spielberg.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/10/23/jewish-museum-honor-magicians-houdini-david-copperfield/3740397001/

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4. November Genii Magazine
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Message by Richard Kaufman - Editor Genii Magazine

Subscribe to Genii today for as little as $35 at www.geniimagazine.com. Make it three years and you can get Charlie Miller's 600-page "Magicana" book for only $25 plus postage.

Francis Menotti, on the cover of our November issue, is a brainy fellow and it comes through in the magic he performs. He impressed me greatly when I saw him perform and lecture enough that I asked him to join Genii as one of our rotating book reviewers. He's diligent and thoughtful in his approach to magic, which puts him a cut above.

The Tenyo company of Japan released its 2021 new line of tricks recently and copies flew my way by Fedex from Tokyo. There are four regular tricks (less than usual due to the pandemic) and one special item - a very special item, and all are on video in our digital edition.
Tannen's magic camp has been providing fun and magical instruction to kids each summer for decades. This year, of course, was different - a virtual event was held with more attendees and famous magician guests and teachers than ever before. Jeff Prace was there, and he'll tell you all about it.

Mike Caveney's "Classic Correspondence" has a letter from Faucett Ross to John Carney.
I don't know about your house, but here at chez Kaufman, The Great British Baking Show is being binged on a regular basis. It turns out that it's the same at chez Hannibal as well, as you'll find out in the new installment of "Happiness is the Road."

Krystyn Lambert penetrates the veil between the real and spirit worlds in "Stage as Studio".
"Positive Magic for Kids," the three-part collaboration between Richard Wiseman and David Kaye, returns this month with a focus on a trick known either as "Bracelets to Necklace" or "Eternal Rings".

Jon Racherbaumer says that he never touched the cards in "Exhumations".

John Bannon just can't help it - he's drawn to "Jazz Aces" in the same way I'm drawn to ice cream. Read his latest handling in "Dealing With It".

This month's "Magicana" consists of one extremely good coin routine by Japanese magician Masashi Noshita in which three different coins vanish one at a time and fly to a folded handkerchief. I know coin workers will enjoy this.

"The Eye" has coverage of David Blaine's successful "Assentation" and other news.

Well-known magician Suzanne is our guest reviewer this month, attending to tricks. Elliott Terral and Nathan Coe Marsh review books and videos, respectively.

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5. Aiden Sinclair On The Magic Word Podcast
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Message by Scott Wells, M.I.M.C. with Gold Star

This week we celebrate the Halloween season with Aiden Sinclair who is the resident "medium at large" in Colorado's famed "Stanley Hotel". The Stanley Hotel was the inspiration for Stephen King to write "The Shining" that was later produced into a blockbuster hit movie. Vince presents bizarre performances with his show "Illusions of the Passed" which is not misspelled. He does commune with those who have passed. He also performs at the haunted Winchester House and aboard the equally haunted Queen Mary. This week Aiden tells us how he got to where he is and why. His journey is incredible and inspiring, some of which are shown in the videos from "America's Got Talent" [sic] on our blog.

You can listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts, But for more content, please visit: https://www.themagicwordpodcast.com/scottwellsmagic/583-aiden-sinclair And be sure to join us on our "sister broadcast", Magic and Martinis Thursday Virtual Happy Hour that is live streaming on Facebook and YouTube each Thursday night from 7:00-8:00 Central Daylight Time. All the details are in the weekly podletter so be sure to subscribe and learn more about it. Tonight (October 29th) we have a "Spooktacular" themed night featuring Todd Robbins, Vince Wilson and Jamie Salinas.

Finally, we want to congratulate Kevin O'Donnell and Colby Higgs who were the winners of our recent contest. They won a two volume set of "The Golden Age of Magic Posters - The Nielsen Collection" from Gabe Fajuri. We had well over 100 entrants in the contest. Learn about all of our current contests in the weekly podletter.

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6. Count Us In! - John Carey #99
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Message by John Carey (UK)
http://www.johncareymagic.co.uk/

Count Us In is a powerful and yet almost self working predicted card at any number style effect. It's bold and a lot of fun to do. On the back of a business card write Seven of Diamonds. Slip this into a pay envelope. Take a deck of cards and set the two Jokers on top. Finally take out the Seven of Diamonds and position it seventeenth from top and you are in business.

Bring out the deck and the envelope. Set the envelope aside without fuss. Table the deck as you address two spectators. "Lori and Shannon, numbers play an important role in our day to day lives. So many numbers for this and in turn numbers for that. Lori, I will snap my fingers and ask
you to call out a number say between five and ten. Go! That's interesting. Now it's your turn Shannon. But to make it interesting call out a different number in our range. Go!" Now is there any way I could have known what numbers each of you would think of?"

Let's now deal with the extremely simple, but subtle way of dealing with the numbers named. If the combined total is 17 we do nothing and pass the deck to our helper. If it's 16 we casually flip the Joker on top face up and pocket it, saying it doesn't really have an identity. If the number
combined is 15 we flip both Jokers face up and pocket them. For the number 14 we take off the Jokers into the right hand, secretly securing a left pinky break beneath the top card. Flip the Jokers face up on top of the deck and spread. Then take them and the card beneath your break and pocket those cards. Finally for 13 we do exactly the same as 14, except this time we steal two cards. Then the deck is handed to one of our two spectators.

Walk and talk your spectator through a classic Jay Ose False Triple Cut and have them gather up the packets and square up. "If we combine both of your numbers we get? Let them answer whatever that total may be. Ask the person with the deck to deal and count face up to the number, revealing the Seven of Diamonds. Pick up the envelope, take out the business card and reveal your successful prediction.

Notes:

If the combined total is 16 have the spectator deal face down.

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7. Ongoing Adventures Of Romany! #31
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Message by Romany (UK)

Hello from the Magic Cottage!

It's raining here. Was it raining last week? It seems to rain a lot here in my new home in Cumbria.

Guess what I did last weekend?

I spent 18 hours with Jeff & Abby McBride, Larry Hass, Paul Draper, Tobias Beckwith, Jade and Lance Burton!

Plus another 100 magicians, all from my armchair in the Magic Cottage.

Last weekend was the McBride Mystery School Magic and Meaning conference. A homecoming for many magicians who have been to the school's events over 30 years.

As you know, I haven't done any magic since my last show in February I've been busy promoting my book but haven't felt called to devise a zoom show. It didn't matter. Once a magician, always a magician I think.

It was super interesting to hear the very different ways so many magicians have responded to this 'new normal'.

We had mini ten minute lectures, magic teaching and outbreak rooms for meeting and discussion. One of my favourite lectures was by Judge Brown on the forgotten power of the magic wand. Probably like many of you, I've only used a wand for cups and balls. Of course, it has so many other uses. I'll have to figure out what style of wand my own stage persona would have.

The weekend gave me so many ideas and reminded me that of course I still love magic.

Today, I am writing the trailer for my book that I'm going to film next week. I'm planning to stage it in costume using magic. And maybe a bit of magical editing too. Watch this space. Hopefully I'll be able to share it with you next week.

Oh, I nearly forgot! Do you remember last week that after I appeared on the BBC arts programme, I offered them the story that they support the arts in these difficult times by reviewing my book? Then the producer wrote a blunt and dismissive email back? Then I blogged online about it and tagged the programme?

Two days ago, the BBC rang to apologise! They also said they would consider my idea.

The motto of this story?

Have the courage to ask and the courage to stick to your guns when you know you're doing something to inspire the world!

Love to you all.

Romany

PS: Have you read Spun Into Gold - The Secret Life of a Female Magician? Because I'll keep reminding you until you're the 9,999,999th person who hasn't!

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8. Potter & Potter Auctions
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Message by Gabe Fajuri (USA)

The Magic Collection of Rüdiger Deutsch - Part II auction this Saturday

Over the last twelve years, we've offered an astonishing amount of magic apparatus at auction. But no single collection has included so many unusual, beautiful, and one-of-a-kind props as Rudiger Deutsch's. Deutsch had an eye for the very best, and this catalog shows it. The props he constructed were built to the highest standards, and many of them are foolers - suitable for modern day audiences. But let's not forget the antique and collectible artifacts in the auction, either.

From micro-magic and association items to mechanical marvels, this is one sale in which my favorite lots were nearly impossible to select. Good luck to everyone who participates on auction day!

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9. Ken Brooke Special Limited Edition
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Message by Paul Stone

November 3rd 2020 is a very significant date in the magical diary. And no, I'm not referring to the U.S. Presidential Election. November 3rd would have been the 100th Birthday of one of the most influential magicians of the last century, Ken Brooke.

A wonderful performer, teacher, mentor and magic dealer, Ken was one of the greatest magic demonstrators of all time, and his advertising materials and detailed instruction sheets were superb and way ahead of the time.

If you are a Ken Brooke aficionado or a magic collector watch out for a couple of special limited edition releases commemorating this landmark for a very unique and much loved magic personality and performer.

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10. The Orchante Saga - Beginnings
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Written by the late Tommy Orchard (The Amazing Orchante)

Goodbye Timaru - Home - the N.Z. hotel circuit - Adventures

Without going into a whole swathe of details, Eddie Brooks and Galaxy Enterprises went 'BUST', so Veronica and I packed up our Super Snipe, and the sign written, colour matched trailer we towed behind it, which some 'wit' knick-named - 'The Queen Mary'-because at night, with all the running lights on, it resembled a cruise liner sailing down the highway; said goodbye to Timaru and the haunted house and headed for home. Although I call Whakatane - a town on the East Coast of the North Island, in the Bay of Plenty, 'Home', I was actually born in
Auckland city. When Veronica's parents left Scotland for New Zealand, (Veronica was only two and a half/three years old) they settled in Whakatane. My grandparents from my mother's side, came from the Te Teko - Edgecumbe area, which is only 13/20 miles from Whakatane, consequently when I met Veronica and eventually her parents, I felt very much at home, geographically as well as personally.

After years of temporary planting 'grass roots' all over the place, we eventually settled in Whakatane - home base from which to carry on 'stampeding' around the country with our shows. It was a nice place to come home to, trout fishing in the lakes and rivers, from Whakatane to
Rotorua (just one of the many sports for which New Zealand is internationally famous), deep sea fishing as well; pig shooting and deer stalking in the bush or just plain 'chilling out' at home, or
relaxing/ sunbathing on the pristine, glistening white sands of Ohope beach. What the hell am I doing here! Then we emigrated, via Fiji, to Australia. I've got way ahead of myself, that's a whole, New 'Book'!

Working the hotel circuit from one end of New Zealand to the other was fun; I met all sorts of interesting people, like the two helicopter pilots at the 'Haast Pass' motor hotel one night. The Haast Pass is on the West coast of the South Island, 370km (230miles) highway 6, south of Greymouth or, around five hours driving NW on State highway 6a/ 6 - unsealed, from Queenstown. How do I know all this? Because I travelled those roads so often, I could have done a genuine 'blind fold drive', backwards, with my eyes shut! Sounds Irish!

We spent a lot of time in Ireland - it rubs off. Where was I, oh yes - the helicopter pilots. I met them at the bar after the show, during my usual close-up magic session - while having a few drinks with the local 'natives'. Nobody ever accused me of being a snob. They were deer culling around the area and invited me to spend the following day with them, warning me that it most definitely was not the usual - 'Tourists Scenic Sightseeing' scenario.

These guys were today's modern-day version of the 'Old Wild West' cowboys - the helicopter was, metaphorically speaking, their horse! The whole sky was their 'riding range' and they could throw that tiny 'bird' around with total, 'apparent' abandonment, in reality, it was absolute, controlled precision, you were left gasping at their amazing 'daredevil' flying skills and the sheer excitement of it all! To them, it was 'just part of the job'.

Both doors had been removed from the helicopter to facilitate shooting their rifles, and they took turns flying while the other shot the deer. It got rather 'hairy' at times when the pilot had to hover on alpine slopes while the other jumped off to secure the deer by a length of rope underneath the helicopter. They would pick up three at a time - which was all the mosquito sized helicopter could handle, fly back to base camp to drop them off then straight back out again. Talking about mosquitoes, the ones down the West coast have their own landing strips - there're the biggest buggers I've ever seen, not to mention the sand flies.

When the day's business was over (some business) I said," What the hell do you guys do for fun?" They laughed and one of them said, "come on", leaping into the helicopter, "I'll show you". Flying over dense natural forest, he suddenly dropped down below the treetops; the next second we were racing flat out along a river, inches above the water. Straight ahead a wall of green was rushing up towards us - I'm thinking, 'my God, can't he see that where're about to crash' then, at
what seemed to me to be the last moment, he threw the 'chopper' into a steep turn, whipping around a bend in the river! He did this several times, following the natural curves of the river - okay, he's done this god knows how many times before, for kicks, I hadn't, and I was now sitting a little higher in my seat - just as well the doors weren't fitted!

Now he starts to climb out of the river, skimming across the tops of the impenetrable forest of the 'Mount Aspiring' National Park - Mount Alba looms up ahead of us and he starts climbing up through the canyon - like valleys, over snow covered slopes and ridges, diving straight down into rugged passes - solid rock only feet away on either side, ducking, swerving, diving and climbing up towards the peak which is 2355 metres - damn near 8,000 ft above sea level, and it was freezing!

When these guys told me that what they did was - 'Not For Sight Seeing Tourists', they weren't kidding! The Theme/Leisure Park Ride has yet to be invented, and never will be, that could even come close to what these young New Zealand pilots called, for sheer exhilarating thrills, - fun!!!

Did you know that most, if not all of the wackiest fun games/sports that have hit the world - stage, originated from the inventive minds of New Zealanders. To name just a few -'Bungee Jumping', 'Bar Fly', where you wear a Velcro 'suit' and run the full pelt at a large board, that is also covered in Velcro, and take a 'flying' leap at it so that you stick to it! I remember this particular one was all the rage at various universities we performed at. The controversial 'Dwarf Throwing', was another one. And people think I'm mad! Well, I am a 'Kiwi'!

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11. E-zine Archives
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Back issues of the Magic New Zealand e- zine go to:
www.magicnewzealand.com

Click on the red button centre right "Archives"

When you enter the archive the e- zines are in issue order in folders for each year and are Coded, e.g. 001 Nov06 1999.txt first three numbers (001) denote issue number, then the date (Nov06) and the last figures the year (1999)

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