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Business Lessons From A Professional Magician..

July 28, 2014 Rick Carruth

By Dina Gerdeman for FORBES

When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true “wow!” moment.

And Harvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomkeknows just who to consult to create such a spellbinding experience: a world-class magician.

Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has paired up with magician Jason Randal since 2009 to teach innovation to business executives.

Randal’s lessons for executives are not just about how an engaging personality, psychological insights, and talented hands can create wonderful effects that amaze an audience. It’s just as much about the hard, creative work Randal puts in to continuously improve his art…

July 22, 2014 Rick Carruth

By Catriona Wightman for Digital Spy

Dynamo: Magician Impossible has landed a fourth series on Watch – and One Direction will appear in the show.

Dynamo – whose real name is Steven Frayne – will travel to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, India, London and his home in the north of England during the new series.

As well as One Direction, stars such as Coldplay and Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan will be popping up in upcoming episodes.

“Dynamo is leading the regenerated interest in magic, with millions of fans around the world,” Watch’s general manager Steve North said. “As well as the mind-blowing magic, Dynamo: Magician Impossible is the amazing story of the man himself, and how his passion for illusion has rocketed him to international stardom.

"We are thrilled that Watch is the home of Dynamo and that we have brought the show to a global audience.”

The new series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible is due to air on Watch this autumn…

http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a584208/dynamo-magician-impossible-lands-fourth-series-one-direction-to-star.html#~oKM6pYKVVcz5Lr

‘I think the BBC has lost the plot’: Paul Daniels on talent ‘freak’ shows and why modern magic leaves him cold..

July 13, 2014 Rick Carruth

Very nice and thorough article by Sarah Oliver for the MailOnline..

Primetime TV has no new ideas, says the former king of magic… who’s still stunned that his show – with 15 million viewers – was axed. But do Paul Daniels and his devoted Debbie have one last trick up their sleeve?

I would have liked to have run the BBC because I honestly think they’ve lost the plot,’ said Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels loves an audience, any audience.

By the time I arrive at the Thames-side pub where I am to meet him and his wife, ‘The Lovely Debbie McGee’, he is already standing by the bar with one leg in the air looking pretty nimble for a man who’s four years shy of 80.

He’s showing off a well-turned ankle inside a candy-pink sock.

Since there are no other customers it is for benefit of the lone barmaid and no, he’s not about to levitate or saw it off – he’s just trying to prove his footwear matches the stripes on his polo shirt.

The point is, that he can’t help himself: he has to entertain…( Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

Ali Cook Exclusive Interview..

July 8, 2014 Rick Carruth

By Helen Earnshaw for Female First

Ali Cook returns to the big screen this week as he stars in new sci-fi action film The Anomaly: which is the latest offering from director/actor Noel Clarke.

We caught up with Cook to chat about the film, working with Clarke for the first time, and what lies ahead.

– You will be back on the big screen this summer in The Anomaly, so can you tell me a bit about the film?

The Anomaly is directed by Noel Clarke; he also plays the lead character Ryan. It is set in a dystopian future – around twenty years from now – and Ryan wakes up in the back of an armoured security van and in chains and handcuffs. He is just trying to figure whereabouts he is.

Every nine minutes and forty-seven seconds he loses his memory and wakes up somewhere completely different: usually a few days later.

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