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DIED. JAY MARSHALL, 85, magician-ventriloquist dubbed the Dean of Magic by the Society of American Magicians; in Chicago. An opening act for performers from Frank Sinatra to Milton Berle and a frequent guest on the Ed Sullivan Show, he would banter with his brash puppet, Lefty, and perform signature tricks like the Jaspernese Thumb Tie, in which his crossed thumbs, securely interlocked, penetrated spectators' legs, chairs and other objects...
...Occasionally these stoned tableaux are lightened by intrusions of real-world comedy: the visit of a Yellow Pages ad salesman to a stoned Blake; the door-to-door missionary zeal of two young Mormons. Ricky Jay provides a few moments of irrelevant coherence with his story of a magician named Chung Ling Su. But these interludes can't bring Last Days to life. The film is so studied and self-conscious that the audience can never concentrate on Blake; it can only watch the camera watching...
...finish line. Instead of bestowing a new mandate upon him, the election brought difficult questions: Can a man so furiously branded a liar resume normal political leadership? How much legislation can Blair pass, given that his parliamentary caucus is reduced and no longer views him as a vote-winning magician? Where, precisely, is the tipping point after which power will start cascading to Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who knows his popularity rescued Blair during the campaign and thirsts...
...Thursday night, the audience chose a celebrity victor, Magician Harry Blackstone, who beat out the bigger names like Dick Cavett, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech...
While many productions squirrel their conductor away in the orchestra pit, Don Giovanni refreshingly features its conductor at center stage. Indeed, even audiences can appreciate the clear musical direction and easy-to-follow beats of the LHO’s magician at work, Gund Unviersity Organist and Choirmaster Edward E. Jones. As the music director, he is the essential glue that holds the instrumentalists and vocalists together...