The trial court judge considering the case of former Oakland Raider?s kicker, Cole Ford, has ordered the defendant to undergo a second psychiatric examination before a competency hearing set for January 13th.
Mr. Ford told the court he would rather not go to trial but wants to enter a guilty plea to charges he fired several shotgun blasts at the duo?s Las Vegas home.
The court said she wanted proof Mr. Ford is competent before she’ll accept a plea to charges. Mr. Ford’s lawyer won’t say whether Ford wants to plead innocent or guilty. He says Ford doesn’t really understand what’s going on.
Ford faces felony charges that could get him up to 27 years in prison. He’s been in jail since he was arrested November second.
No one was hurt in the September 21st drive-by shooting that broke windows and damaged the home of illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn.
Mr. Ford?s family in Tucson, Arizona has said Ford’s shown signs of schizophrenia.
Mac King, headlining comedian and magician on the Las Vegas Strip, is popping up in the funny papers across the nation. His syndicated comic strip ?Mac King?s Magic In A Minute? has been selected to for the Sunday edition of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, a top 25 daily publication, making it the fifth newspaper across the country to host the comic.
The Oregonian is a daily newspaper with a Sunday readership of more than three-quarter million (781,000) adults, one of the nations largest daily publications. A distinguished newspaper, The Oregonian was previously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in journalism and public service and is the highest circulated daily newspaper in Oregon.
In addition to The Oregonian, ?Mac King?s Magic In A Minute? is now featured in five newspapers nationwide including: Athens Banner-Herald in Athens Georgia; Reading Eagle newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania; The Las Vegas Review-Journal in Las Vegas, Nevada and MAGIC: The Magazine for Magicians.
?Mac King?s Magic In A Minute,? features Mac King and his sidekick Lewis, a cute, comical monkey, demonstrating one of Mac King?s magic tricks.The trick is displayed in six or eight colorful informative boxes giving exact instructions on ?how-to? perform the trick incorporating the comedy of Mac King.Also included is The Secret ? magic trick explanation. Each week Mac King will feature a different magic trick in different themes such as, ?Banana Jujitsu? and ?Freezin? For No Reason,? and more.
Mac King was recently awarded ?Magician of the Year? by the Magic Castle, Academy of Magical Arts and is a Guinness Book of World Records holder in 2004 for ?The World?s Longest Game of Telephone/Chinese Whisper.?
Young magi part of the famous Alaska Magic Kids club will perform for the sixth straight year at holiday performances in Anchorage.Don Russell began the club about ten years ago to help young people discover the fun and self-confidence that can come from the performance of magic.
The project began as a two week workshop for kids in 1998 and like all great acts, it was held over by popular demand.The workshop morphed into Magic Kids for young boys and girls (7 to 17 years) interested in learning.
The club is supported by the parents and the public.Parents assist in ticket sales, working the sound board and rigging lighting.The public turns out for the shows throughout the year.
Alyson Wardell is a former Magic Kids member and says the program presents a refreshing philosophy.“It’s not scary at all,” Alyson said. “All you’ve got to do is just do it, and if you mess up, you mess up. They don’t know you’re messing up.”
ALASKA MAGIC KIDS will perform its Holiday Magic Extravaganza show starring special guest magician, David Stanley of Dayton, Ohio, at 2 and 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Snow Goose Theatre, 717 W. Third Avenue. Admission is $3, $5 for adults and $10 for a family.
The Alaska Magic Kids website is really inspiring.The site contains information about how the club is organized, the past events and the upcoming meetings and shows.In the notes from the August meeting (there are meetings ? open to the general public; and sessions ? open only to members), there was instruction and practice on the proper use of a… Continue reading Alaskan Kid Magicians Perform Extravaganza
The insiders have proclaimed that the back to back episodes of Father of the Pride we?ll watch tonight are the death knell of the animated series.The industry journal TV Barn writes, ?By burning off three never-before-seen half-hours tonight (including a rather tardy Thanksgiving episode), NBC is merely confirming the obvious: ?Father of the Pride? is done.?
The reasons for the premature ending for the clever but adult-oriented cartoon are manifold but perhaps the most obvious will suffice: after watching the recuperating Roy Horn on recent news reports takes the humor out of a show featuring a cherubic Roy and cute tigers.
Notes TV Barn, ?Viewers never warmed to the idea of risque talking lions and the pretense that Horn?s injury somehow never happened. You can?t always predict when a show will fail, but this is one case when NBC should have known better. Well, you know what they say: ?Pride goeth???
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