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Magician Penn Jillette To Write Spider-Man/Deadpool..

Magician Penn Jillette To Write Spider-Man/Deadpool..

(Photo: Marvel ) An upcoming Spider-Man/Deadpool story will be written by famed stage magician Penn Jilette, Marvel announced today.

Jilette will pen Spider-Man/Deadpool #11, which in addition to the title superheroes will also star himself and his longtime comedy/magic partner, Teller.

“Spider-Man/Deadpool are a team, but in this comic, the team is Spider-Man/Teller and Penn/Deadpool,” Jilette said on the This Week In Marvel Podcast. “Imagine what a magician could do with someone who heals that quickly!”

After he said that he wanted to run Deadpool through with a sword, Jilette acknowledged that he knew it hurt Deadpool when that kind of thing happened, even if he healed quickly. “That’s why it’s fun!” He joked.   Read more…

http://comicbook.com/marvel/2016/08/19/magician-penn-jillette-to-write-spider-man-deadpool/

How a NASA scientist helped an obese magician lose over 100 pounds..

How a NASA scientist helped an obese magician lose over 100 pounds..

Penn Jillette is a magician and a juggler, a flamboyant and funny performer. He’s also only two-thirds as big as he was in November 2014, when, approaching his 60th birthday, he weighed 330 pounds.

His new book is called “Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Magically Disappear and Other Big Fat Tales,” and that pretty much lays it out. How did he do it? Well, he started by eating nothing but potatoes for two weeks. Boiled, raw, baked . . . didn’t matter, he just had to eat nothing but potatoes, including the skin. After two weeks of that, he was allowed to eat an ear of corn — no butter, no salt —and it takes a full page for him to express just how that corn boggled his “potato famine” palate. Read more..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-a-nasa-scientist-helped-an-obese-magician-lose-over-100-pounds/2016/07/29/67e6d80a-4ec0-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html

Penn Jillette on Magicians, Intelligence and Now You See Me 2 ..

Penn Jillette on Magicians, Intelligence and Now You See Me 2 ..

The most famous magician of 21st century America is Harry Houdiniand he’s been dead for almost 100 years. Houdini named himself after Robert-Houdin, the 19th century French magician. Robert-Houdin thought a magician should dress like his audience, not in a conical hat and robes like a wizard or a witch. In 19th century Paris, that meant Robert-Houdin dressed in top hat and tails. Stupid magicians continued to copy his wardrobe long after audiences started wearing jeans—they missed the point.

Robert-Houdin said that a magician was an actor playing the part of a magician. So Jesse Eisenberg, in Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2, is an actor playing the part of an actor playing the part of a magician. Jesse has a harder job than Robert-Houdin, Houdini or me. (I wrote that last sentence just so there would be one sentence on record where I’m included with those two geniuses.)

http://parade.com/478682/pennjillette/penn-jillette-magicians-intelligence-now-you-see-me-2/

TELLER GRACES NEW CLIP FROM DIRECTOR’S CUT..

TELLER GRACES NEW CLIP FROM DIRECTOR’S CUT..

“A deranged lunatic named Herbert Blount (Jillette) donates a large sum of money to to land himself on the set of a crowdfunded horror movie starring his favorite actress, Missi Pyle. When it appears the director is not doing the film justice, he steals the footage and abducts Pyle in order to create his own better version. It all unfolds via the director’s commentary over his new and improved version of the film.
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