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I Have Always Been Interested In Pushing Magic Forward.

The Real Secret Of Magic Lies In The Performance.

I Got To Watch Frank Capra, In His Eighties, In Action. You Read All The Stories About Frank Capra Fighting With The Head Of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "it's My Way Or The Highway." I Got To Watch That. He Lambasted Me, "you Cannot Do This. You Will Fail." Finally, After Another Hour Of Conversation, I Convinced Him To Help Me Write The Speech.

My Father Wanted To Be An Actor, Dreamed About Being An Actor, But He Gave It Up Because My Mom And His Family Told Him, "you're Never Going To Make It; It's Too Tough Out There."

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.