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Paul Daniels to Star at Press Ball

 

 

Paul Daniels and Lovely Debbie McGee

The Ipswich and Suffolk (UK) Press Ball has announced its entertainment for this year’s annual event, Paul Daniels.

 

Mr. Daniels’ theme will be “An Enchanted Evening” and is promised to bring “magic, mystery and illusion” to the fete considered the highlight of Suffolk’s social season.  The event is scheduled for June 24th.

 

Mr Daniels, 66, is a member of the Grand Order of Water Rats, an organisation known for its charity fund raising.

 

He said: “I was asked to come, it was as simple as that. I am a water rat and we work for charities wherever we can.”

 

Wife Debbie McGee, a choreographer, performer and presenter in her own right, will accompany Mr Daniels if she isn’t already booked.

 

Star editor Nigel Pickover said he was delighted that Paul Daniels would be at the Press Ball.

 

He added: “Paul Daniels is the very face of magic in this country. His presence will add that extra bit of glitter and sparkle to Suffolk’s biggest night of the year.”

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February 19th, 2005 | Category: Magic News | Leave a comment

Inside Magic Corrections

 

 

It is the policy of Inside Magic to correct mistakes brought to our attention in a timely manner.  We will necessarily bring those mistakes that could lead to a death or dismemberment or, worse, a lawsuit before others that just make us look stupid.

 

In January 26th edition of Inside Magic’s List of the Stupidest Routines, we unfairly made fun of VanDeen the Extraordinary.  We wrote, ”. . . and of his alleged big trick, the drawing card for the whole show, who cares?  It sounds neither dangerous nor exciting.  What is the worst that can happen to him?  He gets a paper cut on his lip?  So what?!”

 

It turns out Mr. VanDeen was performing a Bullet Catch and not, as we incorrectly read, a Billet Catching trick.  We still believe, however, that this is an inappropriate trick for children’s birthday parties but we petulantly admit our mistake.

 

In the April 2nd edition of Inside Magic’s Baltic Region Magic News, we gave the impression that we really cared about anyone else but us.  We regret the error but don’t really care what anyone thinks anyway.

 

In our special Inside Magic’s Top 75 Mathematical Card Tricks Lasting More than 20 Minutes, we transposed some numbers in trick number 23, “What Pile is Your Card In Now?”  The formula in line 82 should have read “add the value of the top cards from each pile with face cards counting as 12.”  As the trick was written in the original version, the effect could become unintentionally interesting or entertaining and thus defy the rules of the mathematical card trick genre.  We regret even writing about the topic.

 

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February 19th, 2005 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment

Juliana Chen to Star in Reno – Links to Cartoon Shooter

 

Juliana Chen

Award-winning Chinese magician Juliana Chen will appear at the Peppermill in Reno for two shows, Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5, in the Peppermill?s ballrooms. 

 

Ms. Chen is connected not only to great magic but also to the voice talent of one of the best cartoons of the late 1960′s.

 

The Peppermill Hotel and Casino is outside of the downtown Reno environs but provides a nice theater for magic. 

 

Here’ some trivia, it was also the location of the lovely Gwyneth Paltrow’s dark film Hard Eight in which she plays a cocktail waitress by day and a working girl by night. 

 

Ms. Paltrow wrote of her time in Reno:

 

It’s depressing. You’re shooting in a casino at 4 a.m. and you would see these blue-haired people sticking there social security right in the slot. But there was something really fun and dark and seductive about being there.

 

Ms. Paltrow as Clementine in Hard Eight

We mention Ms. Paltrow’s connection to the Peppermill because as in Six-Degrees of Separation, she connects Ms. Chen with virtually anyone. 

 

For instance, Ms. Paltrow is daughter of Blythe Danner, who starred in The Great Santini with Robert Duval, who acted with Martin Sheen, who worked on a Habitat…
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February 19th, 2005 | Category: Magic News | Leave a comment