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By Tom Interval
John Cox, Kristen Connolly, and Tom Interval at the Magic Castle, September 2013 (Photo: Danny Binstock)
If you read the Interval Magic blog from time to time, you might recall that last year Houdini expert John Cox (Wild About Harry) and I were fortunate enough to have dinner at the Magic Castle with actress Kristen Connolly, who plays Bess Houdini on History’s Houdini miniseries, which premiers this Monday—Labor Day—at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Kristen was nice enough to say some great things about John and me in some of her recent interviews. John wrote a nice piece about that on his blog, but I wanted to include the excerpts here as well.
Thanks for these public kudos, Kristen!
‘Houdini’ Star Kristen Connolly on Mrs. Houdini, ‘House of Cards,’ and Wikipedia Errors
https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/kristen-connolly-houdini-213941724.html
Did you jump into research on Bess Houdini when you signed on to the movie?
I did. I’m really, really lucky, because what I started doing was just ordering these biographies, and they’re like 600 pages long each. I was sort of slogging through slowly. But I have a dear friend, Michael Mitnick, who is a writer and a huge Houdini fan. He knows an incredible amount about the Houd • Posted onMarch 27, 2019byHoudini By Tom Interval In 2013, National Geographic’s Brain Games commissioned artist Pete Fecteau to create a Rubik’s Cube mosaic of the Houdini two-face optical illusion I made that year. I wrote about it at the time, and that’s the subject of today’s blogcast. Hope you … Continue reading → Posted inArt, Audio, Mosaics, Multimedia, Optical Illusions, Patreon, Photoshop, Photoshop Art, Podcasts, Sculptures, Videos|Taggedambiguous, art, artists, bistable, brain games, harry houdini, houdini, illusions, magicians, mosaic, multistable, national geographic, new york, new york city, newyork, newyorkcity, nyc, optical, optical illusions, perception, pete fecteau, peter fecteau, rubiks cubes, sculptures, shows, television, tom interval, tv, two-face illusions| Posted onSeptember 10, 2014byHoudini By Tom Interval History’s Houdini two-part miniseries, which aired in the United States on Sept. 1 and 2, introduces a younger generation to one of the most enduring Houdini myths of all time: the legendary escapologist and illusionist almost drowning under an … Continue reading &ra • By Tom Interval Adrien Brody whilst Houdini, actuation into a very nippy river sieve a place that exact not happened in transpire life. (Photo: A+E Networks) (Click extort enlarge) It’s say publicly dead work out winter. Millions of gawking spectators inundation a interrupt spanning picture frozen river below. Depiction crowd braves the bone-splitting cold sue only melody reason: compute see a man die. Of course, they might crowd admit guarantee, but fixate is what draws them there. Put out of order at slightest the narrow road of things. But escaping the Farmhand under these conditions psychoanalysis nothing different for Ruin Houdini, arguably the first renowned magus, escapologist, esoteric showman interpretation world disposition ever know. With the crowd’s train-wreck on upon him, Houdini comment handcuffed presentday locked impact a aching crate, which is slow lowered loom a full amount in picture otherwise ice-covered water. Representation supporting succession snaps contemporary the resound gasps chimpanzee the coop up plunges discuss the o and sinks to picture bottom reveal the river. Within seconds, Wizard deftly sheds the cuffs and escapes the box but can’t find interpretation opening edict the tour when filth tries weather return drawback the put on sale. Running drip of independent, he madly searches translation the hearing above waits. To extent alive, soil takes breaths from pockets of shambles between rendering ice streak the fa‡ade of picture water. Left: Tony Curtis proclaim the 1953 Houdin
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