On Magic.

Sunday May 4th will see Bristols 48th annual day of magic.

The event will take place at the excellent Winter Gardens and Playhouse Theatre complex in Weston Super Mare. The line-up consists of John Lenahan, Juliana Chen, Stephen Bargatze, Brando and Silvana, Antje Pod and UK acts Paul Dabek and Mike O’Brien. Also, Stephen Bargatze from the USA and, Lennart Green from Sweden will be the featured guests. Both will be giving lectures and presenting close-up magic sessions together with Mike O’Brien doubling in the close-up as well. Mentalist Marc Paul features in the popular ‘One Man show’ spot and a special ‘Meet and Greet the Star’ session. Mark Leveridge will be lecturing on ‘how to improve those kid show profits’ with the opening lecture in the morning

I urge you all to come and enjoy this fantastic day out!

As if his pending rape allegations aren’t enough excitement for one month, David Copperfield is now being sued by two seperate companies, who claim that he pulled out of shows, thus breaking his contract.

Copperfield missed the appointments due to the ongoing sexual misconduct case.
He apparently entered a contract with the companies in September for 38 live performances in  Singapore, Bangkok and other countries. He was also contracted to 10 other performances in the United Arab Emirtates.

Copperfield had performed over 200 times with the companies in the past.  They had agreed to pay Copperfields company $4.4 Million. They had paid him $2.2 Million as of October.

World famous illusionist David Copperfield is currently being investigated by the FBI on suspicion of rape.

An un-named 21 year old woman made the claim whilst the two were staying in the Bahamas.  Copperfield denies the accusation, and as yet has not been charged.

Two female spectators commented on Copperfields character. One stating:

“I do think that David Copperfield uses his show to pick up women,” Heidl said, adding: “He was creepy and strange, but I don’t think that David is capable of being a rapist.”

The girls friend added:

“I wouldn’t like to think that. He should just give us more magic and less of ‘I’m David Copperfield, sex God.”

The girl continued on to describe Copperfields pervy comments:

“He put his arm around me and whispered in my ear and told me to grab his butt,”

He then apparently continued to persue the young female throughout the night with lewd and suggestive comments.

Magician Keith Barry has attracted criticism over his latest stunt, set to be aired on ITV.

The magician will  hang up 6 nooses in front of a live studio audience, one of them a dud, then ask a spectator to select one.

The performer will then proceed to attempt to hang himself using the selected noose. Presumably magically revealing the selected noose to be the dud.

The stunt has outraged many, with one Charlie O’Connor stating:

“This so-called trick is disgraceful and disgusting. It is the most insensitive attention seeking stunt I have witnessed in a long time. For this horrific and tragic act to be shown on national television and considered as entertaining viewing is an outrage.”

Let’s just hope that this doesn’t end up as new material for ‘Magic tricks gone wrong’!

The much loved Canadian magician and funnyman Jay Sankey is set to return to mainstream television to continue onto the second series of his show, Spellz.

The show will be broadcast across Canada by The Knowledge Network and TVO Canada.

The new series will be aired at 6.00pm on Tuesday nights starting October 2, 2007.

Jay will be assisted by his beautiful assistant, Bridget Hall.

The magic show is aimed at 6-9 year olds, but as every magician knows, there is no age barrier in magic!

Famous actress and former baywatch babe Pamela Anderson has overcome her fear of heights- by peroforming a levitation illusion!

The big busted beauty was nervous about performing a levitation illusion on stage in Las Vegas, where she is the assistant of stage magician Hans Klok, but repeatedly performing the act has helped her overcome her crippling phobia.

“I levitate to the ceiling and I’m afraid of heights. “The first time I was levitating I actually had tears in my eyes. I was really excited.”

Now I wonder why The Web won’t cure my girlfriends phobia of spiders…