Not Playing Tricks, but Preventing Magic from Vanishing’..
As a world-acclaimed magician, Tony Hassini’s not playing tricks to make things disappear. Rather he’s using his hands to prevent the enchanting art of magic from vanishing – to the extent of planning an Olympics for the genre in India.
The ace, elderly and globetrotting rockstar magician Hassini is the president of the US-based International Magicians Society, the world’s largest professional body of magicians.
“Persistence and determination are the two key words to success,” Hassini, 75, who was born with a hearing impairment and dyslexia, told IANS in an interview here.
It’s the repertoire of tricks that changed his life.
“Magic gave me the self-confidence and the opportunity to see eye-to-eye,” the Muammar Gaddafi lookalike said.
Sharing his inspirational journey from a disabled child born during World War II to an immigrant dish-washer to an acclaimed magician, Cyprus-born Hassini said: “Everybody has the desire to be rich. Talent doesn’t make it. There are so many talented people who are starving. Hard work doesn’t make it.” Read more..