Richard Abowitz has a remarkable take on the Criss Angel – Perez Hilton skirmish in the Los Angeles Times. We use Mr. Abowitz’ column to revisit the whole frakis and consider Norm Clarke’s perspective.
Criss Angel’s $100 million magic show has been running, or according to critics, stumbling at the Luxor Hotel and Casino for the past few months.
Initial reviews were almost universally bad. Undaunted, Criss Angel and the Cirque du Soleil geniuses have worked to improve the show but according to Mr. Abowitz and Perez Hilton, the work has been in vain.
There is no accounting for taste. Michael Jackson has dropped David Copperfield from his upcoming London shows because Mr. Copperfield was “too expensive.”
We are not sure what that says about the rates charged by Criss Angel.
According to Mr. Jackson’s press people, Mr. Copperfield wanted to charge the gloved-one $1 million a show.
Actually, that seems pretty reasonable. You have to figure that every day he is with Mr. Jackson, Mr. Copperfield is missing out on performing in his own show. Plus, he has to perform with Mr. Jackson. That’s got to be worth a cool million.
According to the South African paper The Sun: “Michael was excited about working with David, but they fell out over money. Michael’s delighted to have Criss on board – not least ‘cos he costs less!”
Okey doke.
This is probably not exactly the same but reminds us of how steamed we get when we are underbid for a show by one of our fellow magic club members. Mr. Copperfield and Criss Angel have two entirely different approaches to magic. It is hard to believe Mr. Jackson sees the two as fungible elements of his show.
You know the saying, once you go magic, you never go back.
Britney Spears was seen with bite-marks during her short time with Criss Angel. We always thought they were love-bites. Nay, she was apparently bitten by the magic bug.
While the bite marks may have faded, the infection the magic bug deposited took hold and now rules her life; tainting her perception of everything so that she now sees things not as they are but as they could be if done magically.
Ed Alonzo is a real magician who does real magic and knows how to put together a show of quality. Britney is someone looking for a big comeback and hopes her Circus Tour will do the trick. She needed someone like Mr. Alonzo to bring magic literally into the tour.
E! says Ed “The Misfit of Magic” Alonzo. We know about Mr. Alonzo’s considerable talent in our field, but how does Britney fair?
Mr. Alonzo told E!, “Right away she got into the boxes and into the magic contraptions to learn the stuff, and she’s so excited about this tour and all the elements that are in it.”
Ms. Spears performs as Mr. Alonzo’s assistant. They plan to perform classic illusions with a high-tech twist.
We know what you’re thinking. Didn’t he just start a new job? Isn’t it somewhat soon to take a vacation?
When we began work at the now famous Hobo Hot Kakes (“HHK” to locals) eatery in the old Sun Coast Shopping Market in West Palm Beach, Florida back in 1974, our family wanted to take a long-planned vacation to Valdosta, Georgia for the annual festival of agriculture and innovation. This is long before Valdosta became the international city it is today.
Our new boss at HHK said no vacation or no job. Even though we had a whole ten days tenure on the HHK bus/dishwashing crew, we couldn’t take a vacation until we had worked at least a year.
Our heart told us to go with the family to the Valdosta fest, but our brain said we could be messing up a job with enormous upside potential. In the end, we stayed while the family went to Valdosta. They had a great time, we got ringworm — for reasons unrelated to our work washing dishes but directly related to busing tables.
If Inside Magic was not so firmly ensconced in Mystic Hollow, Michigan, we would pull up the Double Wide O’ Magic and move it to India or Las Vegas — the two hot spots for magic these days.
Vijay TV plans almost non-stop coverage of magic in India for the next little while. The series Mayalogam will mix celebrities and magicians in a non-stop showcase for India’s top performers.
The premise behind Mayalogam is very cool.
We learned more about the series and the word Mayalogam while surfing The Indya Star website.
Mayalogam is ruled by a pompous but skinny Raja Nakimukki. He is accompanied by his bulbous Rani Minnal Idaiyal who is engrossed with her own beauty with an unquenchable desire to be entertained. They are always accompanied by their dwarf ministers who try their best to entertain the Queen, but fail to do the same.
Apasara Mayakani, the story teller comes to their rescue every week by kidnapping some of the best magicians from the real world to showcase their acts to liven Mayalogam.
Richard Abowitz has a remarkable take on the Criss Angel – Perez Hilton skirmish in the Los Angeles Times. We use Mr. Abowitz’ column to revisit the whole frakis and consider Norm Clarke’s perspective.
You know the saying, once you go magic, you never go back.
We know what you’re thinking. Didn’t he just start a new job? Isn’t it somewhat soon to take a vacation?
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