Re: Fri. 5/9 'Will it Float?' Sorcery

On May 10, 4:03=A0am, "Bill Kawalec" <billkawa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Crash Bandicoot" <NoS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Bill Kawalec wrote:
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> >>> Eh, I give tonight's Penn & Teller performance ... 1.5 stovepipe
hats
> >>> (out of four).
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> >> I found it entertaining, yet somehow lacking. Maybe it was just to
shor=
t,
> >> although I wouldn't trade a Cobie Smulders appearance for anything...
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> >>> Brady
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> > It was disjointed and not very coherent. There was no setup as to what
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as
> > about to happen.
> > It also didn't help that Paul was a very talkative assistant...
> > made it hard for Penn to get his schtick out.
> > I still don't understand what the billiard ball had to do with
*anything=
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> oh, that's the part I did get. The billiard ball is to distract your
> attention from the wand.

Right -- Penn was prepping the audience in "misdirection" with his
introductory billiard ball/magic wand. Then amplified it when he
tapped Teller's blockhead with same wand. No one noticed that Paul's
gl***** were no longer in Penn's pocket.