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 David Copperfield (illusionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Copperfield (born September 16, 1956 as David Seth Kotkin) is a renowned magician and illusionist best known for his combination of spectacular illusions and storytelling.
David Copperfield was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, to Jewish immigrants from Russia.
In April, 2006, Copperfield was accosted at gunpoint with two of his female assistants after a performance in West Palm Beach, Florida.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Copperfield_(illusionist)   (490 words)

  
 MagicWeek - Magic News in the UK - Magic Shop Tricks
19.7.03 Two top Illusionists are banking on getting it right with their prediction predicting the winner of this year's Big Brother - or they'll pay £10,000 to charity.
David and Angelique Diamond of North-East based 'Corporate Illusion' handed over their prediction in a sealed envelope on July 10th to the HSBC Gateshead branch...
12.7.03 David Copperfield is interviewed in The Houdini Myth on Wednesday, July 23rd, on the UK History channel in a documentary that explores the huge impact that Houdini made in his time (and since).
www.magicweek.com   (5484 words)

  
 Misdirections Magic Shop -- Illusions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Seven original Illusions fully explained (one is already licensed to David Mendoza-Magicraft) Illusion sketches Two unique illusions for TV & Film Thoughts on Illusion A contribution by David Mendoza An excellent essay to improve your act by Tony Clark USA 122 pages with detailed routines & beautiful illustrations in full colour throughout the book.
Ideal for the illusionist who doesn't have much time to create a miracle.
The book begins with a foreword by David Copperfield and features seven out of print Abbott plans, some early Osborne Genii illusion plans as well as tips from Karrell Fox, Tom Mullica and others.
www.misdirections.com /illusion.html   (8241 words)

  
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Credits are noted to Richard Hatch, David Meyers, and Bob Lund.
Theater 400 Magic as Live Theater (3 cr) This class includes a field trip to New York City to attend David Copperfield's new Broadway show, Dreams and Nightmares.
The New Yorker touts the show as follows: "Illusionist David Copperfield and two estimable collaborators -- playwright David Ives and director Francis Ford Coppola -- are bringing 'Dreams and Nightmares' to the Martin Beck." One hopes this collaboration will prove as successful as Ricky Jay's with David Mamet.
littleegyptmagic.com /courses.htm   (1717 words)

  
 Articles - Statue of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The program showed the statue from the point of view of an audience seated on a ground-level platform, viewing the statue through a proscenium arch.
Televised views from a helicopter showing the statue´s "disappearance" were, according to Poundstone, views of a duplicate ring of lights, surrounding empty ground, that had been installed on Liberty Island for the illusion.
Poundstone, William (1986), ´´Bigger Secrets´´, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 039538477X: Description of Copperfield illusion.
www.rivarevo.com /articles/Statue_of_Liberty   (4183 words)

  
 Excerpt: Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
That old-time word refers to sleight-of-hand trickery as practiced by performance "magician" Houdini of the silent-film era or by "illusionist" David Copperfield of our own time.
As Robert K. Ritner has written about the oldest-known tradition of magic: "No suggestion of trickery is ever implied in Egyptian terms for magic."
Of early Americans, historian David D. Hall wrote: "People in the seventeenth century inherited a lore that stretched back to the Greeks and Romans.
www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/magic2.htm   (9314 words)

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