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We have been justly accused of being too devoted to Brian Gillis and Sisuepahn. Sure, that’s probably right. But the way we figure it, if Johnny Carson considered Mr. Gillis his favorite magician, we’re in good company.
The Villages Daily Sun covered the dynamic couple’s latest demonstration of impossible things at the beautiful Savannah Center’s Scarlett O’Hara Theater. Bottom line to the article: the reporter joined the rarified company of Johnny Carson and Inside Magic. The subhead tells it all: “Psychic magicians leave Villages audience spellbound.”
Mr. Gillis did his trademark effect: eight folks peek at a card in the deck and he correctly names each card and associates it with the correct volunteer. We’ve seen him perform this several times and while we have too much pride to say it baffled us, it did.
Sisuepahn performed an incredible combination of telepathy and mathemagic. Here’s the paper’s description:
One audience member thought of a two-digit number and Sisuepahn started writing down random numbers on a large sheet of paper. The number was 46, which didn’t appear at all, but when you added up the numbers going down, across, diagonally, in groups of four, and in the four corners, they all added up to 46.
The detail in which the reporter described the act is testament to how quickly he must have lost his journalistic objectivity. He became a devotee even before the lithe Sisuepahn performed her version of the Georgia Magnet. She must weigh little more than the combined weight of the spotlight and her flattering dress but the strongest of the audience were unable to lift her.
Just as you would expect from a fan-magazine, the article turns to a complete biography (almost a hagiography) of Mr. Gillis and Sisuepahn. It traces Mr. Gillis initial interest in magic — not as a child but as a junior high school teacher — how the committed petty larceny against his public library by stealing (or at least “not returning”) the book How to Entertain Small Children with Magic.
Mr. Gillis and Sisuepahn learned from the best. Mr. Gillis studied under Eddie Fetcher (for whom FFFF is named). Sisuepahn learned one of the best two-person telepathy methods ever perfected by working with Eddie Fields. If you have a chance to see this couple perform, you will see a true classic in their telepathy routine. We have seen no couple come close to their expertise and presentation.
Even if no one agreed with our assessment of this incredible couple, we’d not retreat from our high opinion. It is nice, though, to be joined by Johnny Carson and converted newspapermen. Visit their web site — it is more popular than Paris Hilton’s, if only among magicians.
Harry Blackstone, Jr. used to introduce his Floating Light Bulb illusion with the statement, ?As long as you live, you will never forget . . . .? The same could be said about Mr. Gillis and Sisuepahn’s presentation. It is more than breath-taking. It is…
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