J C Sum and Magic Babe Ning Break Record
They did it!
According to J C Sum’s web site, he and the lovely “Magic Babe” Ning set the record for “most number of grand illusions performed in five minutes.”
The record was set on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 9:40 pm.
Turn-out was great. And why wouldn’t it be?
J C Sum and Magic Babe Ning have taken the country by storm with well-timed and publicised stunts and apperances.
Plus, where else can one see 15 big-time illusions in five minutes?
We understand more than 3000 people witnessed the blur of illusions in the beautiful Central Promenade adjacent to Singapore River.
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Keith Barry to Cure 10 of Flying Phobia
Calling him “Ireland’s answer to David Copperfield,” The Evening Herald of Dublin splashed great press about local son Keith Barry.
Mr. Barry seeks ten Dubliners as test subjects with a morbid fear of flying.
Using no more than his powers or hypnotism, Mr. Barry will cure all ten of the phobia and accompany them on a Aer Arann flight to somewhere in Ireland or Scotland.
The Irish airline is very proud of the tie-in with Mr. Barry.
The amazing Mr. Barry will spend just 48 hours with the volunteers before the flight scheduled for July 10th.
Mr. Barry dismisses the phobia. He told reporters “such fears are unfounded and are just a deeply-rooted mental issue.”
“I truly believe anyone can be cured of any fear. It is not that difficult to do. It’s my job to show people how they can help themselves.”
His selection method will hopefully provide a fine pool from which to choose the final ten subjects.
Mr. Barry is working with Dublin’s 98 radio station to find just the right folks.
Dublin radio station asking listeners to prove they deserve to experience the cure.
“This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time because with some very clever thinking we can get rid of this terror they have, whether it’s of flying, or spiders, or whatever else,” Mr. Barry told The Evening Herald.
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Magic Babe Ning’s Controversial Escape Stunt Teases World Record Illusion Act
Inside Magic Favorite ‘Magic Babe’ Ning Cai literally elevated the risk level of her renown straight jacket escape last weekend.
Miss Ning is famous for her signature Straight Jacket Striptease routine. She describes the act as “Harry Houdini meets the Pussy Cat Dolls.”
Her most recent presentation, however, moved from tease to terrifying.
Inversion saw her completely restrained by a regulation straight jacket, blindfolded, and held upside down over a very real and very sharp bed of spikes.
Magic Seen calls Miss Ning “the sexiest woman in Magic” but this latest stunt could easily have ended in a decidedly less-than-sexy manner.
Honestly, we don’t know why they (escape artists) do this type of thing (risk their lives).
If our fellow performers risk their lives for our entertainment, they can skip it because we cannot handle it.
While we admire their skill, we tend to worry.
Inside Magic Favorite Dean Gunnarson sent us a video of an insane escape that took us a couple of hours to watch.
We kept stopping the video, visited our “happy place,” recalled that we were watching an event that happened in the past, and because Mr. Gunnarson sent us DVD himself, there was every reason to think he was not killed in the footage we were viewing.
Like Miss Ning, Mr. Gunnarson performed an inverted straight jacket escape.
Miss Ning was over very sharp and sturdy steel spikes.
Similarly, Mr. Gunnarson was high above The Hoover Dam while hanging from a free-swinging bar using only his feet; no tether, no strap to hold the top of his shoes in place as he contorted his body.
Yes it was an amazing feat, but it also brought us nightmares and an additional five weeks of therapy. And as many know, most insurance policies refuse to cover so-called “Puppet Psycho Therapy” beyond two weeks of visits. Our recovery was costly and left emotional scars.