Latest Magic News – January 15, 2004Inside MagicMagic News Updated Daily for the Professional Magician

David Copperfield?s traveling show An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion continues to take the country by storm. Tonight he played two shows at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in beautiful Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Herald-Sun conducted an interview with Mr. Copperfield through email in advance of his appearance and it is really pretty fascinating.

Consider the discussion about Dreams and Nightmares:

?HS: The show is based on people’s dreams. As someone who has been called a “living legend,” has traveled the world and has plenty of money, what is your dream?

DC: I am living my dream, and for that, I am grateful. I get to travel the world and perform my show every single night. I really cannot imagine or dream of something else that I would rather be doing.

HS: Speaking of dreams, what is your worst nightmare?

DC: Coming to the Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh and nobody being there. Of course, something going wrong with an illusion would be a nightmare. In 1982, I was doing a levitation illusion with a Ferrari and it fell, almost crushing me. There was no backup plan; it was very embarrassing. It did help the shows; I think people came to see if it would happen again.?

Mr. Copperfield writes that his greatest honor is that received on behalf of his Project Magic initiative. He developed the program in 1982 to assist in the mental and physical rehabilitation of patients…

The Herald-Sun conducted an interview with Mr. Copperfield through email in advance of his appearance and it is really pretty fascinating.

Consider the discussion about Dreams and Nightmares:

?HS: The show is based on people’s dreams. As someone who has been called a “living legend,” has traveled the world and has plenty of money, what is your dream?

HS: Speaking of dreams, what is your worst nightmare?

Check out the full interview by clicking here.

Dutch Magician Kortini chafes at a Rotterdam law that forbids smoking in public. One of his routines involved the appearance and vanish of lit cigarette but even the magical appearance of a lit cigarette is illegal. “It’s a ridiculous law. If you do a difficult trick like that, you get a lot of respect from the audience and colleagues. And that’s why I do this job.”

Read the full article here.

Juvenile-Domestic Relations Court Judge Carle F. Germelman Jr. is featured in a wonderful article by the Winchester (VA) Star. The article traces his love and growth in Magic over the last 50 years. We often read profiles of local magicians in local papers and to be honest, often, they?re not that well-written or even interesting. This article is different.

You can read it in full here.

?Circus Boy? Bob Hunt will perform on behalf of cancer patients as part of The Bombay Alley Blues Band will perform a benefit concert from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at Prairie State College Business & Community Education Center, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights. Circus Boy has one of the better websites to promote a performer. Mr. Hunt is a graduate of the Ringling Brothers Clown College and apparently has used his education well. Check his website out here. We are going to add Circus Boy?s website to the Inside Magic Links of Fame.

Check out the article detailing Mr. Hunt?s involvement in the upcoming charity show by clicking here.

Speaking of Ringling Brothers Clown College Graduates, there is a nice profile of Earl Chaney, a/k/a Mr. Clown. We will have another article about Mr. Chaney elsewhere on this page but it is good to see this institution get his props.

Read the article here.