Inside Magic

One of the Inside Magic favorites in the upper ten percent of that esteemed list is Michigan magician John Sturk.  

We have written in glowing terms of Mr. Sturk’s natural talent and ability to win even the most jaundiced audience.

We are happy to report that the talented young man has hired on at Chicago’s Fun Inc.  In keeping with his incredible ability to do several things at once, Mr. Sturk has a new web site giving the bird’s-eye low-down on the inside skinny of Fun Inc.

Fun Inc.’s business name fit with what and how they produced.  They have been consistent in producing great products at affordable prices.

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He is known around St. John, Newfoundland as The Magic Man,  the guy who freaks people out.

Mark Webber wants to escape from "a coffin-shaped box that
will be dangling by a burning rope and about to drop in St. John?s
harbour."

That’s just half of the trick, though.

He hopes to perform the stunt during the town’s Aliant Downtown Busker Festival this August.  He knows he needs to prepare physically and mentally for the escape.  But Mr. Webber is learning escaping from a coffin dangling from a burning rope is not as easy as it used to be.

Enter the lawyers and the insurance companies.

Approaching that event?s organizers as well as city officials,
insurance companies and potential sponsors will consume a lot of
Webber?s time between now and then as he tries to get the green light
for the trick.

Gaylynne Lambert of the Downtown Development Commission suspects it will be challenging for Webber to get the thumbs up.
It’s her experience that even for non-risky events, insurance is needed
to cover every single thing that could possibly go wrong.
"So when you are looking at a death-defying act like this, I would say
that it is going to take some convincing to get everybody on board,"
Lambert says.

Mr. Webber is in the unenviable position of putting on a death-defying act that is not death-defying or even risky.

Continue reading Escape Artist Mark Webber Hopes to be Free of Red Tape

Criss Angel and Paris Hilton topped the list for The Most Annoying of 2008.  Miss Hilton was selected by readers of Vegas Tripping for her skills. 

The editors of that Vegas Tripping bucked the readers’ sentiment and voted Las Vegas resident Criss Angel as the man with whom they would least like to hang.

Criss Angel (real name Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos) is a not a mack
daddy, he just plays one in the gossip rags.

Like clockwork, every
Monday morning Norm Clarke at the Review-Journal details who Mr. Angel
has hooked up that weekend. You’d think that Mr. Sarantakos has got the
skills to pay for the purple pills, but no.

He ensnares starlets, porn
babes and actresses for self-promotion purposes via tabloid headlines
and talk show hot air. If only his disappearing act was real….

Continue reading Criss Angel Ties Paris Hilton for “Most Annoying”