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Is the NFL asking Rihanna, Coldplay, Katy Perry to pay to play at Super Bowl?

Is the NFL asking Rihanna, Coldplay, Katy Perry to pay to play at Super Bowl?

I can’t let this story pass us by.. Kipp Sherry, on Full Circle Magic, comments on this article in the Kansas City Star.

As reported by the Red Zone for the Kansas City Star.. as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.. and thanks to Kipp Sherry too..

The Super Bowl halftime show has evolved from a time-killing event to a full-fledged event.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bruno Mars were the halftime act this year, and they followed the likes of Beyonce, The Who, Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the NFL has narrowed down the list of potential performers for the 2015 Super Bowl to three candidates: Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Coldplay.

The NFL apparently thinks the halftime show is lucrative for the artists, as well. In that article, the Wall Street Journal reported that the NFL has asked artists under consideration for the show to pay to play, according to people familiar with the matter.

Perry, who is playing the Sprint Center on Tuesday night, and the other artists apparently were unhappy with this idea. Who can blame them?

Longtime assistant to magician David Copperfield dies at 61..

Longtime assistant to magician David Copperfield dies at 61..

Thanks to Ed Koch and the Las Vegas Sun for this article. Certainly, this is not the type of news we look forward to reporting. Our prayers go out to her friends and family. 

Joanie Spina, longtime assistant to magician David Copperfield, died Sunday at a Houston hospital while awaiting lung and liver transplants. She was 61.

Spina, a Las Vegas resident who also coached young magicians and was an aspiring filmmaker, suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung disease. She also had been treated for cancer.

She left Las Vegas this year for Houston for the planned replacement surgeries.

A fundraiser to defray Spina’s mounting medical costs was held in Las Vegas in September and attracted a number of luminaries from the magic community, including Lance Burton.

Since 2009, Spina had penned the Directions column for Las Vegas-based Magic magazine. She gave tips to aspiring magicians on stage presentation and technique to help them fine-tune their acts…

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Dynamo plans to “reinvent the live magic show” following last series of Magician Impossible.

Dynamo plans to “reinvent the live magic show” following last series of Magician Impossible.

TV magician Dynamo intends to “reinvent the live magic show”.

The 31-year-old has announced that the fourth series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible will be the last, with the Bradford-born trickster set to make the move into the live arena.

He explained: “I think there are so many opportunities in the live arena for what I do, so it will be a great chance to kind of reinvent the live magic show.

"I can think back to David Copperfield and Paul Daniels, but I think in this day and age, there aren’t that many magic shows in theatres so I think it will be interesting to take a look at that.”

Dynamo also revealed that one of his ambitions is to perform magic in front of hip-hop star Eminem…

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dynamo-plans-reinvent-live-magic-4068046#ixzz3AnTxNqwB 

Could ‘Wizard Wars’ aid Vegas?..

Could ‘Wizard Wars’ aid Vegas?..

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By MIKE WEATHERFORD for LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

A couple of things you will see on Syfy’s “Wizard Wars” Tuesday that you don’t see in Las Vegas:

A) New illusions created in a competitive setting, not just the same old stuffing of women into cabinets and stabbing them with swords.

B) The larger illusion that young, attractive people actually sit and watch young, attractive people perform magic in cool nightclubs.

“We did kind of build this ideal magic venue,” Rick Lax says of the latter, created in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner building that’s seen new life for film and TV production.

In Las Vegas, he agrees, “most magic shows are not set up that way. They’re not that intimate and the audience isn’t that attractive and young.”

But maybe A can help make B come true…

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