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- From: eo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Ed Oliveri)
- Subject: Re: Penn and Teller
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.215540.16389@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1993Jan14.212631.26478@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1993Jan14.232936.13572@news.acns.nwu.edu> <MYEE.93Jan15132302@sunny1.apple.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:55:40 GMT
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- In article <MYEE.93Jan15132302@sunny1.apple.com> myee@apple.com (Michael K. Yee) writes:
- >mjamroz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Margaret Jamroz) writes:
- >> eo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Ed Oliveri) writes:
- >
- >>>I saw Penn and Teller's New Year's Eve stage show in Stamford, Conn.
- >>>last month. The show's program did not list the bits, so could you tell me
- >>>if they performed "The Bleeding?" (Was it the great sleight-of-hand
- >>>finale?)
- >
- >> Yup, Ed. That's the one. Was it way cool, or what?
- >
- >> maggie
- >
- > Can someone describe "The Bleeding" sleight? Many Thanks,
- >
- > =mike
-
- Well, first of all, I'm not a magician, so I can't describe it
- technically, e.g. ". . . and then Teller used Elonzo's Elusive Twist
- to produce the wine glass." Second, I saw it on New Year's Eve,
- and, well, for some reason the details of the performance escape me.
-
- Anyway, Penn and Teller step behind a screen, take off their clothes,
- and don sleeveless tee-shirts that hang down to their knees.
- (Penn even takes off his glasses and lets his hair down.) Then they
- step up on a platform and take turns producing objects in their
- hands "from thin air." At the end, Penn makes a gun with his hand and
- shoots Teller, whose blood spurts from his wounds and drenches Penn.
-
- Anyone who's seen the bit knows that this is a poor description of it--
- I guess next time I'll take notes :-) Go see it for yourself.
-
- --
- Ed Oliveri, eo@cbnewsb.att.com OR att!cbnewsb!eo
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