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 Someone once said, "there are things you know, there
are things you don't now, there are things you know you don't know, and
then there are things that you don't know you don't know."What does
it mean? We don't know. (Rim-Shot!).
But we do know there is one thing we did not know but if we had known
we didn't know we would have wanted to know. There is a huge, swirling
controversy whirling like a Dervish on crack-rock through the usually
staid Branson (MO) entertainment world.
[We mean no offense to the Dervish. Some of our best friends are
Dervish. We know some Dervish families we'd be proud to have live near
us -- assuming it their homes were downhill. We even know some Dervish
at work and other than the fact that no one wants to eat with them for
fear of becoming nauseated by the post-meal spin, they're just like
normal people. Frankly we feel the press took our comments about the
Dervish out of context. Our point was only that Dervish are
high-energy contributors to the world of magic. Leave it to the press,
though, to find a way to twist words far from their original meaning.
When we said, "Yo, Top-Boy, who pulled your string this morning?" we
meant, "we care about you and your culture." But you are our friends,
we need not defend ourselves here].
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 From our very short and limited involvement with television network production (Court TV covered most of our first trial) we know there is an economic and strategic bias against covering stories unless they are in one of the top three television markets. It is tough to blame the network producer. They need to bring the project in under budget. A story from Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles is easier and less expensive to produce than one from, say, Scranton, Pennsylvania. So, given the choice between two comparable stories, the twenty-something producer will cover his or her bacon by shooting the story in the major media market. This economic bias is exactly why we are impressed with Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brooks. Despite the fact that their Houdini Museum is not within a top-three market, their work and the museum are frequently featured in world-wide television coverage. |
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 From our very short and limited involvement with television network production (Court TV covered most of our first trial) we know there is an economic and strategic bias against covering stories unless they are in one of the top three television markets. It is tough to blame the network producer. They need to bring the project in under budget. A story from Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles is easier and less expensive to produce than one from, say, Scranton, Pennsylvania. So, given the choice between two comparable stories, the twenty-something producer will cover his or her bacon by shooting the story in the major media market. This economic bias is exactly why we are impressed with Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brooks. Despite the fact that their Houdini Museum is not within a top-three market, their work and the museum are frequently featured in world-wide television coverage. |
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 We were checking out the hemline forcast for next spring in today's online version of Vogue UK when we came across this strange story.
Matt Hooker has been accused of stalking or "pestering" Nicole Kidman and Claudia Schiffer.
He claims to have at least one celebrity stalker of his own. According
to one of his numerous websites, Hooker fancies that both Schiffer and
her ex, David Copperfield , have tailed him in the past, while Ben
Affleck is more recently on his case.
Mr. Hooker describes the most recent "tailing" from Ben Affleck on one of his many web sites.
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 David Copperfield is one hard-working guy.
He tours constantly and when he's not on the road, he's
planning or rehearsing for the next leg of his never-ending world-tour.
We often wondered how he kept up the pace. How he stayed perpetually young. We also had questions about how he does that
trick where he lasers off half his body and walks down a platform.
We have answered one of the two questions.
According to the very reliable Australian
Broadcast Company's news feed, Mr. Copperfield has found "The Fountain
of Youth."
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 We heard from Cameron Fisk fresh off a very successful five
days at the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians ("PCAM").
Success is defined in so many different ways and always in
accordance with the reasonable expectations for the task and individual.
Mr. Fisk is nineteen-years-old and the alter-ego of the
kid-show character Mac Backwards. If he
were to attend an international convention of PCAM's caliber, meet new friends,
learn new magic, perhaps even share a trick or two, we would all agree the trip
was a success.
If he went beyond just
meeting, sharing, and learning to participating in a competition, no one could
consider the trip anything but successful. Many professional magicians tell us
just participating in a magic contest is a tremendous educational experience.
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 Erik Mana's introduction on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/erikmana) starts
out with a grabber - literally:
Long time ago, a wise man once told
me "...pat your hand near his crotch, then pull it out!!"
I later
realized that he was referring to how to lift a man's wallet from his back
pocket whilst applying the necessary distraction. Since then,
I've been picking
pockets, stealing watches and lifting jewelry like a bad habit, but then again
- that's my job."
We've written about Mr. Mana on other web sites and found
his fans to be the most loyal and enthusiastic of any of our subjects.
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