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

Donz5 wrote:

> On May 11, 11:31 am, Tom W <blee...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > randwill wrote:
> > > "Bill Kawalec" <billkawa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> >
> > >> so you think Paul was a co-conspirator...
> >
> > > No, but nothing in the presentation negates that possibility in the
> > > audience's mind.  Using the gl***** of a randomly selected audience
member
> > > would have been less suspicious.
> >
> > > Paul may have been a co-conspirator in that he possibly ran through
the
> > > segment with P&T in rehearsal. That would have been a good time for
Penn to
> > > tell him that he didn't have any lines in the bit.
> >
> > Whether or not you like Penn & Teller, they are scrupulous in their
ethics. If
> > they want to impress their peers in magic, and it's clear over all
these years
> > that they do, they are going to have to play by the basic rules which
means no
> > previous contact with audience volunteers.
> >
> > That said, I was wondering if they had rehearsed the trick with Paul
which took
> > me out of the trick itself. I think the problem was that he wasn't a
good
> > participant. I also think that if his incessant talking was affecting
the trick,
> > Penn would not have hesitated to tell him to shut up.
> >
> > Tom W
>
> I doubt they even had a rehearsal, at least on stage; Monday
> afternoon's rehearsal time was devoted to Lance Burton's act for the
> Monday broadcast. And if there were a rehearsal, based on past
> practice, most likely another staffer, perhaps an intern, was used in
> Paul's place.
>
> I saw nothing illegitimate in the act; no duplicate gl*****, no prior
> coordination with Paul. What I saw were two master entertainers
> presenting multiple and simultaneous sleight-of-hands. That's what
> they do.

I understand you are never going to acknowledge our point of view.  We are
not SAYING
there were 2 pairs of gl*****.  We are just saying that when the responses
to Dirk
Arthur's trick was...There must have been 2 ducks or 2 tigers...how much
easier would
it have been to have a duplicate pair of gl***** when the assistant was
someone with
the show.  That was my first reaction before thinking more about it.

Marcia