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| The Pendragons |
Speaking of the Pendragons – How Did You Celebrate Pendragon Week? The Pendragons are pushing the Houdini envelope. The Coloradoan gives the Pendragons about two takes – newspaper talk for two pages of typed double-spaced text – of praise in today’s paper.
The paper shares secrets about which we had no knowledge. For instance, did you know that this week was Pendragons Week in Denver, just in time for their two shows?
The honor was proclaimed by Denver Mayor, John Hickenlooper, in recognition of their recent inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Guinness folks say The Pendragons are the fastest performers in the history of magic to perform Houdini’s Metamorphosis.
Here is another secret. Did you know Mr. Pendragon was the stuntman who was standing in for John Belushi doing backflips down a church aisle in "The Blues Brothers (1980).
It’s true.
But it is not just speed and agility that gets a week named in your honor. "Charm is an under-rated element nowadays," Mr. Pendragon said in an interview from his California home.
"Knowing the secret doesn’t make it interesting. It’s the interpretation, all the presentation and the craft that comes in behind it.
"The audience should expect personality," Jonathan Pendragon said from his home near San Luis Obispo, Calif. "It’s not television. It’s not a movie. It’s the live performance where personality can come through. It’s also has charm, magic and poetry."
Read the full article here.
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| “Vanity” |
Eyes, Lies and Illusions – A Cultural Examination of Magic’s Images. A wonderful new exhibit tracing the history of optical illusion will open in London on October 7th. Tracing the tools of magicians and those who claimed supernatural powers, Marina Warner asks “are they the work of the devil, a gateway to another world or the key to our minds?”
Beginning with the concept that optical illusions are not supernatural but are mysterious, the exhibit traces how “illusions kept disrupting the boundaries between reality and fantasy.”
The art and commentary concludes that “running through the history of magic and the anxiety that…
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