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MagicBill wrote:I agree, although I haven't seen his 2 Card Monte before!
MagicBill wrote:'Alright'?!!!!!!!!
I think it is pretty damn good! Think about it from the spectator's point of view - 2 cards change...in their hand.
I've found that it is one of the best tricks to enhance your misdirection skills.
Can't see the advantge of a lateral palm though. The way I do it (with DLs and a top change) means you can do it surrounded - ideal for table hopping etc.
MagicBill wrote:If they don't understand the trick then perhaps it is your presentation that is leading to the confusion? I perform this often and it always kills.
milzy wrote:i still think that some day he will be killed
magicguy wrote:Well that was nice. Now I am going to have to put forth my theory about all of this "masked magician" (MM) hoo ha.
I believe that back in the 80's when the MM first showed up giving away the thin model sawing illusion, it was David Copperfield who was behind it because being the great publicist that he was... following the lesson taught by Houdini himself -- to give away the competitions secrets and keep your own intact.
I am certain that none of David Copperfield's illusions were revealed in the 4-part "Magic's Biggest Secrets Revealed" series. I have seen them all, and I can testify that they aren't. However, the thin model sawing blew everyone away and the zig zag was very popular as well. Stage Illusionists everywhere took a blow from a guy who was in position to stomp his competition. Just like back in Houdini's day when other "Escape Artists Secrets" were exposed as a competitive blow.
I don't believe that Valentino is really the masked magician. He was not in the position to crush the competition. He was a small timer who would have given away his whole show and ended up shooting himself in the foot. I think he was a hired guy who could pull off the illusions in the specials and walked away a very rich man. (Copperfield's income is estimated at 33 millions dollars a year. I'm sure he could afford to pay Valentino enough to gladly walk away from stage magic with a soiled reputation)
After David Blaine cropped up as a big time competitor... boom he's exposed in "Secrets of Street Magician's Revealed" Anyone can see who this show was aimed at exposing. (Cigarette thru quarter was exposed which Copperfield performed in '86 -- that's all) At this point, I had it pretty much figured out, but then...
I think others were catching on to who would be motivated to expose these particular "competiors" and were beginning to sniff around for the truth and I believe that David Copperfield paid Valentino to take the fall to get them off his trail. The I.B.M. was making such a fuss about it that SOMEONE had to take the fall. (Copperfield is a member so he couldn't really stand up and say, "It was me" it would have hurt his reputation -- because they were already badmouthing the MM before they knew who was behind it all)
So I ask you all to think clearly... who else but David Copperfield had the means AND the motive to expose what has been exposed?
Certainly you can all see how David Copperfield's career has not been tarnished by any of it and has surely been boosted by the tremendous stomp to HIS competition.
That's my theory. And I'm sticking to it.
I don't believe that Valentino is really the masked magician. He was not in the position to crush the competition. He was a small timer who would have given away his whole show and ended up shooting himself in the foot.
Craig Browning wrote:ONE IMPORTANT POINT that seems to always get ignored or overlooked when it comes to these shows and that is the FACT that most of what was tipped either has NEVER BEEN USED or dealt with very old, out of date methods no longer practical to employ.
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