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...Having bartered his soul to the devil, Faustus undergoes a gradual spiritual degradation--a degradation whose dramatic impact depends on the demonstrable grandeur of his initial aspirations. When that grandeur is lacking--as it is in this production--the proud doctor is debased to the level of a foppish magician whose downfall is pitiable but hardly tragic...
...Bailey wins the Patty Hearst case [Feb. 16], he should consider becoming a magician. He will not only have created the illusion of innocence, but shown as well his wizardry at masking guilt...
CLAES OLDENBURG is not just a sculptor, he is a magician. Ordinary objects, under his hands, metamorphose into vital and eloquent forms; he can create an Ovidian phantasmagoria from a cigarette butt, or animate a movie camera. His art works imaginative miracles with the stuff of everyday existence. Typewriter erasers are infused with life, clothespins garbed in symbolism. He's the type of person who could change your water into wine...
Actor-Director Orson Welles will do a mind-reading act, and Comedian Bill Cosby will play a fumble-thumbs straight man. But the star of NBC's Dec. 26 special will be Doug Henning, 28, Canadian-born escape artist, magician and current Broadway star of The Magic Show. For his debut as host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst...
Blithe Innocence. Far from being just directorial legerdemain - though they are that - such touches reflect Bergman's continual preoccupation with the stuff of illusion. This obsession links such disparate films as The Magician (1959) and Persona (1966). There are soft shadows of many other Bergman scenes and themes: Papageno and Papagena's indomitable exuberance recalls the peasant couple at the end of The Seventh Seal (1956); the air of blithe innocence and sudden mystery evokes the elegant reveries of Smiles of a Summer Night...