The 8th Annual Motor City Close-Up Convention will be here next Friday. This is the last reminder I’ll be sending for this year’s event. This year?s line-up is awesome! If you haven’t registered yet there are still some good seats left. Don’t miss out on the premiere close-up convention in the Midwest.
The Motor City Convention will feature Doc Eason, Whit Haydn, Kostya Kimlat, and Mark Mason. You will have an opportunity to meet and mingle with them, ask questions, and, if you wish, share some of your ideas with them.
In addition, the 2004 & 2003 1st Place Winners in Close-Up Magic at the National I.B.M. & S.A.M. Conventions, Rick Merrill and Pattrick Przysiecki, respectively, will perform their award winning acts at Motor City 8. Thank you, Rick and Pattrick!
There will be four lectures, two optional workshops and three close-up shows. Both, Doc and Whit will be conducting a workshop. Doc and Whit are seasoned performers who work under “real world” conditions for a living. The workshops will fill up quickly. Sign up for the workshop of your choice as soon as possible.
Some of the dealers signed up already include: Hank Moorehouse, Mint Magic, Gordon Miller, The Magic Shop, Encore Magic, The School For Scoundrels, Rocky Mountain Magic, and more to be announced later.
We’ve said it before and so it makes sense to say it again: David Copperfield is the absolute master at doing advance work.Circuses send their advance people a couple of stops down the road to build excitement for the upcoming show.These people are experts at their craft.But that’s all they do; they have no other job.
The Big D, on the other hand, still has to perform 500 shows a year, invent new effects, rehearse, run a business, make television appearances, and film specials.Heck, just denying rumors about his unfortunate break-up with Claudia Schiffer would be a full-time job for most.
But as he completes his 2004 tour with a final swing through the western states, he takes time to get his name in the newspapers two or three stops ahead.Sure, many of the smaller papers would be happy to give space to his press releases and promote his show the way they help the Barney tour or Disney on Ice.But the Copper-Man works it.He doesn’t settle for a token picture and 12 lines on page C3 of the Mickel Tribune-Dispatch-Democrat-Daily.
For instance, the one they call David Copperfield will be appearing soon in Palm Springs, California.He isn’t there yet and won’t be for a while but he boosts ticket sales to the two days of three shows each by giving a tailored interview to city’s The Desert Sun newspaper.
He doesn’t just provide an interview, though, he provides a hook.He knows in order to get some decent space in a paper, you’ve got to give the City Editor some reason to think your story has a story to it.
He doesn’t change his trick line-up but announces in the interview that he intends to make the city’s mayor, Ron Oden, vanish from the McCallum Theatre.Whether he’ll return is uncertain, DC told the paper.
Q: You?re also going to vanish Palm Springs Mayor Ron Oden from stage during the Friday show. Is he in on the trick?
Puyallup, Washington’s school district has banned Halloween activities because they are offensive to witches.Please note this is not Magic Fiction but Magic News.In other words, if I’m lying, I’m dying and my momma’s home crying.
Because the Wiccan Religion ? the denomination under which you could categorize witches ? is a religion, the school district thought it best to apply the rules against discrimination uniformly to apply to witches and born-again Christians.
The district said the ruling was “final and irreversible.”
Karen Hansen, spokesperson for the school district, said witches have complained to schools about the manner in which Halloween is celebrated.Out of respect for the Wiccans’ discomfort, the district suspended all celebration and costumes.
Channel 13 of Birmingham, Alabama reported that “Hanson said members of the Wiccan religion did not ask the school district to cancel the Halloween events. But she said they have expressed displeasure with such images as witches with pointy noses and witches flying on broomsticks.She said that witches with pointy noses are not ‘respective symbols of the Wiccan religion’ and that their district wants to be respectful of that.”
Melissa Joan Hart who plays Sabrina the Teenaged Witch noted that she does not have a pointy nose.
You can read one of the many articles about this controversy here.
In a related story, hobos have protested the “stereotypical caricature of their group.We do not ride the rails, whistle through the spaces in our teeth, eat baked beans from a can, carry our worldly belongings in a red handkerchief tied to a stick, and steal warm apple pies from window sills.”
The school district disagreed with the hobos protest and said the portrayal was “accurate and certainly not a caricature.As long as a child does not dress up as a pointy-nose witch hobo, they will be allowed to come to school in… Continue reading Witches Pitch Fit – School Board Says No Costumes
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