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Smaller V, Harsh Criticism and Dual Lives

 

Today?s Magic News moves from Las Vegas, to Los Angeles, to Texas and back to the home state of Inside Magic, Michigan.  We hear about Siegfried & Roy?s efforts to get Father of the Pride on television, a magic collector/accountant, a magician/musician and the downsizing of V.  

 

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Accountant/Magician Wilson ?Red? Hall?s Magic Collection Secures Press.  Mr. Hall is the principal of Wilson W. Hall and Associates in Bay City, Michigan, and a certified Magic Enthusiast.  He performs magic for clients and prospective clients and his office is adorned with 24 restraints; one of which belonged to Houdini.  Over the past 20 years, Mr. Hall has collected over 1,000 photographs in addition to props and memorabilia.  

 

One of his fond memories involved the late-Harry Blacksone, Jr.  Mr. Hall met Blackstone at an International Brotherhood of Magicians convention in Las Vegas one year. Hall told Blackstone he was from Michigan, and the two struck up a conversation. Harry Blackstone Sr. is from Colon. ?We started talking, and he gave me his business card,? Hall said. ?I had collected an old brochure from his father, and I mailed it to him. He was really grateful.? The brochure ended up in the Blackstone Museum, and Hall received an autographed picture of Blackstone Sr., whom Hall…
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July 11th, 2004 | Category: Magic News | Leave a comment

Wake Up and Smell the Website

 

I Feel Like David Blaine – Sort Of

The more I think about it, the more I think the waitress was right.  I should go home; the sun is coming up now, my fingers and brain are numb and I am badly in need of a shave and a Kleenex? facial tissue.  

 

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But something about Magic is just magic for me.  I love this stuff and, like the elixir I stopped drinking at 2:30, once it gets into your bloodstream, you grow dependent on it.  The waitress (she has no badge and I can?t remember what she said her name was/is) let me stay after closing time and sold me the rest of the bottle of Old Groggy Uncle I had been enjoying. 

 

Now, the Old Groggy Uncle bottle is drained, my credit card was just declined and I?ve worn out my welcome here at the Mystic Hollow Lanes Liquor Lounge. 

 

When my card was declined, she told me there was no reason to stick around.  She?d cover the charge ? it was for her tip, so I feel horrible ? and the credit card company had authorized my earlier charges.  I told her what I was doing on this computer and she seemed mildly interested as she set up for continental breakfast by emptying ashtrays and putting down paper placemats.

 

?Are you a magician, then?? she asked as she considered whether the salt shaker needed refilling. 

 

I nodded.  I was afraid to talk.  I had no idea how I would sound.

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July 11th, 2004 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment