Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place. Four half-hour situation comedies will go into the schedule to replace such shows as Laugh-In, which is now only a tired reminder of the hit of the '60s, and Circle of Fear, which tried to be ghostly but was never more than ghastly. In The Magician Bill Bixby, in the title role, plays a top-hatted Robin Hood who aids the distressed when he is not pulling rabbits out of hats. Comedian Dom DeLuise will play a clerk in the lost and found department of a New York bus line. Like such hits...
...them to a tape recorder or a secretary. Gabriel García Marquez, author of the brilliant Colombian novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, confesses that he became a conjurer with words only because he was too timid to become what he really in tended to be: a stage magician...
Bewitched Bayou. Sorcery, spells, and satanism mar this otherwise enchanting tale of a magician who loves the water. At Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and in its last week...
...noticed that the Israeli's open eyes were visible through his fingers. Thus Geller was probably able to see the motion of Lawrence's arm as he wrote, and to correctly identify the number, ten. Knowing how to read arm movements, Hyman notes, is important to every magician...
After leaving SRI,* Geller volunteered to demonstrate his powers to TIME'S editors. Last month he appeared at the Time-Life Building in Manhattan and projected thoughts and images, claimed to read minds and caused a fork to bend-supposedly by using psychic energy. After Geller left, Professional Magician James Randi, who had been present, duplicated each of his feats, explaining that any magician could perform them. The fork bending, said Randi, was accomplished by sleight of hand; after distracting his audience, Geller had simply bent it with his two hands...