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It’s getting so frustrating and ridiculous to Criss Angel that people are blatantly taking his stuff’..

It’s getting so frustrating and ridiculous to Criss Angel that people are blatantly taking his stuff’..

Nice article by

Robin Leach

 in the Las Vegas Sun..

It’s far more underhanded than sleight-of-hand. Budding magicians who have been blatantly ripping off leading headline magicians are using more and more magic tricks of others.

It’s gotten so bad that Criss Angel told Britain’s Celebrity Radio Exclusively that he intends to sue “Britain’s Got Talent” magician Darcy Oake after one of his “stolen” illusions aired on the BBC show. Criss told CRE: “A total rip-off stolen for the show. They might as well have come in my house and stolen my TVs.”

As the world’s top magician having attracted 300 million hits on YouTube and generated $150 million in revenue at Cirque du Soleil’s “Believe” in the Luxor last year, Criss shot to fame on A&E with his pioneer, unique, exciting and often-controversial style of magic on “Mindfreak.” Read more at:

http://lasvegassun.com/vegasdeluxe/2015/sep/30/its-getting-so-frustrating-ridiculous-criss-angel-/

LOOK TWICE: AFTER SEVEN YEARS ON THE STRIP, CRISS ANGEL ISN’T DONE MAKING MAGIC..

LOOK TWICE: AFTER SEVEN YEARS ON THE STRIP, CRISS ANGEL ISN’T DONE MAKING MAGIC..

JOHN KATSILOMETES for Las Vegas Weekly..

There was a time when professional magicians donned the tux and tails, tapped a top hat with a wand and professed to make a rabbit appear from its empty interior. Voila! But tonight is not such a time. And Criss Angel is not such a magician.

The star of the Luxor’s stuffed-with-illusions show Believe struts to the middle of the stage, wearing a black leather jacket, thick strands of silver dangling from his neck. His black hair is streaked crimson, as if his skull is bleeding.

Ten minutes or so have passed since the start of the show, as Angel’s support cast—led by his comically brilliant mini-me Maestro, portrayed by Mateo Amieva—have happily entertained the crowd. It’s a Sunday evening, and the place is about packed. Fans cheer when Angel strides prodigiously to center stage. He scans the dark and shouts, “I can’t hear you!”

Whoa. Okay, then. The crowd matches his energy with a dutiful roar. It’s as if Angel has put them on notice: This might be a stage show, but it’s also a participation sport. Read more…

http://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2015/sep/24/criss-angel-not-done-making-magic-believe-luxor/

Joshua Jay and Anna Kloots: A Magician Marries His Assistant

Joshua Jay and Anna Kloots: A Magician Marries His Assistant

The groom? The magician Joshua Jay. The bride? Anna Kloots, his magician’s assistant. When Mr. Jay, 33, appears in a straitjacket, Ms. Kloots, 26, pulls in people from the audience to check the integrity of his bonds and his blindfold.

That’s before “the two minutes or so it takes me to escape,” said Mr. Jay, who began performing magic at 8, and who now is an athletic 6-foot-3 and the embodiment of the handsome prestidigitator. (Some have mistaken him for Bradley Cooper.)

Afterward, Ms. Kloots, who quit her high-end sales job two years ago to tour the world with her globe-trotting conjurer, then helps him with performing other mystifying tricks. Read more…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/fashion/weddings/joshua-jay-and-anna-kloots-a-magician-marries-his-assistant.html?_r=0

How I Fooled Penn & Teller..

How I Fooled Penn & Teller..

Rick Lax is a magic trick inventor, author , and (non-practicing) lawyer from Las Vegas. I was introduced to him because we have the same book editor, Dave Moldawer. On his Facebook page, Rick posts videos of the tricks he’s created. The thing I love about his videos is that he shoots them in a coffee shop with his mobile phone. The tricks are great and he has an appealing personality so the Starbucks production values are fine. I prefer his videos to the edgy, atmospheric videos that so many other magic trick sellers use.

Rick does not perform in front of live audiences, but on Monday he appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us with a memory trick. He wowed Penn & Teller and the audience by glancing at a packet of 21 cards, mixing them up, then separating the reds and the blacks without looking at the cards. Teller grabbed some of Rick’s cards to see if they’d been marked or stripped or otherwise doctored but he came to the conclusion that they are ordinary cards. Penn & Teller were fooled and Rick won the challenge. (Photo from Boing Boing) Read the interview..

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/17/rick-lax-how-i-fooled-penn-an.html