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Good magic, bad magic: ‘America’s Got Talent’ casts its spell..

Good magic, bad magic: ‘America’s Got Talent’ casts its spell..

By Lawrence Specker for AL.com

If I could only pass along one lesson from Tuesday’s episode of “America’s Got Talent,” it would be this: Out of all the places a magician can go with traditional card tricks, his own posterior cleavage should not be one of them.

No, really. It happened. “Mad Jack” invited Howard Stern to pick a card, then dropped the deck down his backside, shook it out the leg of his pants … then dropped his waistband and asked Stern to see if that was his card, you know, back there. It probably works great in bars, which Mad Jack described as his normal habitat, but in this context it earned him the hook. Show host Nick Cannon praised the censor who spared viewers a graphic view of the situation…

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US magician David Blaine to make UAE debut..

US magician David Blaine to make UAE debut..

Abu Dhabi  US magician David Blaine is among the headline acts booked to appear in Abu Dhabi this summer.

Blaine and Arab Idol winner Mohammad Assaf have been named as the star turns for the Summer Season, which is organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) and runs from June 5 to August 31.

The magician, famous for his death-defying stunts and street tricks and illusions, will make his Middle Eastern debut in Abu Dhabi at Emirates Palace on August 21-23 while Assaf will perform at Emirates Palace on August 14.

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Steven Galloway’s ‘The Confabulist’ Reimagines the Legend of Harry Houdini and Explores the True Power of Magic..

Steven Galloway’s ‘The Confabulist’ Reimagines the Legend of Harry Houdini and Explores the True Power of Magic..

By Morgan Ribera for Bustle..

Magic: the art of illusion, the masterful practice of sleight of hand and deceit, the tools through which magicians can make others believe, if only temporarily, in something they know to be impossible. Such magic, and its evolution in the early 20th century, is the subject of Steven Galloway’s latest novel The Confabulist (Riverhead). In it, he explores the veracity of memory, the fictionalization of identity, and the role of magic and illusion in our everyday lives through the story of infamous illusionist Harry Houdini.

The novel opens with narrator Martin Strauss, a magic enthusiast and rather ordinary man whose story is told alongside Houdini’s in alternating chapters. Strauss is Galloway’s fictional version of the real life fan who allegedly punched Houdini in the stomach at a Montreal theater in 1926. In this opening chapter we find Strauss in a therapy session…

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It’s not an illusion! Inside magician David Copperfield’s exclusive Caribbean resort, where parrots pick up litter, an outdoor cinema magically appears on the beach… and guests pay £24,000 a night ..

It’s not an illusion! Inside magician David Copperfield’s exclusive Caribbean resort, where parrots pick up litter, an outdoor cinema magically appears on the beach… and guests pay £24,000 a night ..

David Copperfield’s tropical getaway is not just a millionaires’ playground and celebrity haven. 

While Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, and Johnny Depp are all rumoured to have spent time on the lush property in the Bahamas where Penelope Cruz married Javier Bardem, it is also available to rent… at a cool £24,000 a night.

The world’s most successful magician has a second life in real estate with the chain of 11 Bahamas islands he turned into an exclusive Caribbean resort, which has everything from a giant drive in movie theatre on Coconut Beach to ‘The Houdini Room’ filled with memorabilia from his hero.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2643871/Its-not-illusion-Inside-magician-David-Copperfields-exclusive-Caribbean-resort-parrots-pick-litter-outdoor-cinema-magically-appears-beach-guests-pay-24-000-night.html#ixzz33Ds86wz9