It's Okay For Me To Be Gay,

Everything That You'd See On The Ed Sullivan Show Was At The Tannen's Magic. You'd Think That If You Could Afford A Trick Like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, Then You Could Be On The Ed Sullivan Show As An 8-year-old Kid.

The Key Is For The Audience Never To Know, So I Have A Plan B For Every Illusion.

I Will Now Make A Scorpion Appear In Osama Bin Laden's Pants

Like In Comedy, You Know The Names Of The People Who Steal Things That Others Work Really Hard On. It Really Sucks. And, In Magic, It's Not Just The Hard Work Of Getting The Words And Attitude And Point Of View Right; You're Taking An Actual Invention, Making Something Over Three Or Four Years, And Somebody Can Just Take It.

There Was A Guy Named Ed Mishell. He Was This Grandfatherly Guy Who Did All The Illustrations For The Catalogs And Reviewed Magic Effects For The Magic Magazines, So All Of The Magic Dealers Would Send Him Magic Effects For Free-it Was A Great Deal. His Basement Was Full Of This Stuff. He Took Me Under His Wing, And He Would Sneak Me Into The Society Of American Magicians Meetings In New York. It's The World's Oldest Magic Organization.