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

randwill wrote:
> "Crash Bandicoot" <NoSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> randwill wrote:
>>> The other point about the "moment the magic happens" also crossed my 
>>> mind. I had thought the fact that we never saw that the gl***** were
gone 
>>> from their first location (the pocket) before appearing on Teller's
face 
>>> was the tricks other big weakness (besides the duplicate suspicion).
If 
>>> Penn had remembered to do the tapping of the pocket - the gl***** have

>>> vanished! - prior to the revelation, that would have helped a lot.
>>
>> I disagree entirely. I don't think missing the moment the gl***** 
>> "vanished" removes *any* suspicion whatsoever. The answer was to do the

>> trick as they do it in their live show; with a random audience member
--
>> NOT a member of the staff. As the home audience, we have no way of
knowing 
>> whether the trick was pre-arranged with Paul or not. Patting a jacket
has 
>> *nothing* to do with eliminating that shadow of a doubt.
> 
> 
> ****************************
> 
> I didn't say that missing the moment the gl***** vanished removes
suspicion. 
> I was careful to write that these were two separate issues about the 
> performance which, I felt, added up to a less than perfect appearance
for 
> them.
> 
> Penn's inadvertent omission of the "magic moment" (indicating the
gl***** 
> had vanished by tapping his pocket) weakened the trick in one way.
> 
> The use of a volunteer (Paul) who is associated with the show and to
whom 
> they may have had access (either in reality or in the audience's mind)
prior 
> to the performance is a separate weakness.
> 
> 


Point taken. I think we both agree the trick was a disaster.