Normally, I Do Magic On

If You Ever Saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse Was Kind Of Raised Dancing In Strip Joints And The Whole Era Of Burlesque, And That Form Ran His Visual Aesthetic, The Pacing And Rhythm Of What He Did.

There Was A Place In New York Called Tannen's Magic. It Still Exists. But Back In The Day, It Was Really Fantastic. You'd Go Into The Old Wurlitzer Building, Take The Elevator To The 13th Floor, Which Was Labeled 14, Because Of Bad Luck, The Elevator Would Open, And You'd Be In Heaven. It Was All Of These Guys Doing Magic Stuff With Props. It's Kind Of Gone Now, That Experience, The Brick-and-mortar Magic Shop, But You Really Felt Like You'd Landed In The Most Amazing Place In The World.

Dreams Are Illusions, And We Can't Let Go Of Them Because We Would Be Dead.

I Was An Only Child. We Were So Poor, My Parents And I Had The Same Room.

I Will Now Make A Scorpion Appear In Osama Bin Laden's Pants