Number 60 - 18th August 2001
Here's more
news of who you can expect to see at the British Ring Convention in
September. Children's
Showtime 2001 takes place on Saturday 15th September at the Spa Theatre,
Scarborough. Doors open at 10am - All seats £3.50. The line-up includes:
Tony Rix, Sly Smith, Bob Wooding, Tony King, The Kallini Puppets and Pat
Fallon & Tanya together with the IBM clowns. And artistes announced
for the Saturday night convention gala show include: Illusionists Thierry
& Sylvie, Japan's FISM winning manipulator Ninji Minemura, Magic Elixir,
The Great Fiasco aka Terry Herbert (put him on after a manipulator and
he'll destroy!), Norbert Ferre who went so well in New Orleans with his
original choreographed ball and card manipulations, Illusionist Rossignol,
specialty act Kristalleon, funny man John Archer and MC Steve Walker.
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Derren
Brown Mind Control II will be shown next week on Channel 4, Saturday August
25th, at 10.20pm. Expect the unexpected from Britain's leading mind
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Paul Daniels and
Debbie McGee appear on The Other Half - Celebrity Special tonight
(Saturday) at 6.05pm on BBC 1.
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BBC 1's The Horror of
Retirement in which David Schneider takes a 'dry' look at retirementon
featured a number of magicians on Monday evening. Here's Roger 'mid chop.'
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Dale Shrimpton sent in this really fun link, www.stopthesinging.com. It is an online game involving all the characters from the from the current Heineken "Stop the Singing" ads in cartoon form, including a mini Debbie McGee and Paul Daniels, and offers you the chance to win a trip to Japan - to get as far away from them as possible I guess (Sorry!). And here is another link that talks about the same commercial: Click Here 18.8.01
Secrets of the
Street Magician Revealed will be networked for the first time on ITV on
Monday 27th August. This is the show that exposes a lot of the close-up
magic used by David Blaine in his specials. I've just been sent a video of
a new Masked Magician TV Special made in Japan but have only watched the
first 15 minutes so far. Valentino is such a poor performer, masked or
not. There can be a positive side to these dreadful productions in that
they can stimulate an interest and fascination in magic, but of course we'd
all prefer it if they simply didn't exist: TV Magic
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Magic dealer Tony
Curtis is selling his much loved car number plate 'F TRIX' - offers
and enquiries to Tony Curtis on 01622 862932.
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Congratulations to Ali Bongo on being awarded the Crandall Comedy Award at the Abbot's Annual Get Together a couple of weeks ago • I'll be lecturing at The Young Magicians' Club 2001 Junior Day in October (see last week's news) together with Nick Einhorn so look forward to seeing many readers there. Tickets are selling well so do register your interest now by emailing the contact address in last week's issue • That's all for this week, see you next week, let MagicWeek know your news, Duncan. 18.8.01