Latest News for February 3, 2003Inside MagicMagic News Updated Daily for the Professional Magician

Infantino

Bob Infantino will be performing at the Islip Town Hall Annex at 2 pm on February 28, 2004. He’s probably best known for his magic and comedy along with juggling. He was a Grand Prize Winner on America’s Funniest People and featured on Comedy Central as well as appearing on Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway.

To check out Mr. Infantino’s incredible web site, click here.

To read the South Beach article promoting the show, go here.

Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels and the lovely Debbie McGee received some great news from the home-front about the front of their home as they headed back home from New Zealand. In 2003, the River Thames flooded and destroyed most of their ?2,500,000.00 home. The First Couple of Magic were forced to live in just three rooms that survived the flood. They had petitioned the local planning board for permission to repair the home. Piece of cake, right? Nope.

Infantino

To check out Mr. Infantino’s incredible web site, click here.

To read the South Beach article promoting the show, go here.

Paul Daniels

The Daniels lived on a “Green Belt” area and thus were not allowed to perform any construction on the property ? even if it was to repair the home or protect it from future flooding. The planning commission told the wonderful couple that they would have to continue to live in the remaining three rooms and could not protect their home from future flooding. The Daniels petitioned one more time and it appeared they were about to receive the same ridiculous result but for the intervention of their neighbors. One neighbor wrote to the Council, “?It is utterly disgraceful. If this is the way you intend to treat those of us who suffer from the river?s flooding, we shall have to consider the way we vote very seriously in future. You cannot imagine how you would feel if you were left in this sorry position.?

The planning council taking their own self-interest into account approved the reconstruction plans and will allow the Daniels to construct stilts to protect against future flooding. You can fight city hall, if you do it with neighbors who vote.

Read the full story from the BBC here.

Read a more sensationalist version ? they call Mr. Daniels “Pint-Sized” ? of the story from the Sun here.

Read a nice, mellow, “we all pull together version” from the Scotsman here.

Tippi Hedren

After Melanie Griffith heard about Roy’s injury, she immediately called her mother, Tippi Hedren. Ms. Hedren, the star of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Birds,” lives in a cottage surrounded by 60 large cats including leopards, lions and tigers. Ms. Hedren has already been mauled by a lioness in her role as the founder of the Shambala Animal Preserve in Acton.

Read the terse article in Ireland On-Line here.

David Copperfield

David Copperfield performs in Oklahoma City this evening and promises to “float through solid steel.” The local papers point out that Mr. Copperfield has been a professional since he was 12 and that he was the youngest person to ever be admitted into the Society of American Magicians. We include stories about Mr. Copperfield’s tour because it is amazing how he generates new copy for each local newspaper as he moves from town to town.

You can read the story in the Oklahoma Daily here.