It’s been awhile since James Randi was on my radio show, so I was happy to have him back today to discuss the documentary about his life, “An Honest Liar,” and the upcoming Amazing Meeting (July 16-19 in Las Vegas). I started by asking Randi about the first time he saw a magician onstage, and […]
Earlier this week, I linked to a story from London about a shopkeeper who was supposedly robbed by a thief who hypnotized him temporarily. The story sounded bogus to me, so I asked Ben Radford (deputy editor of The Skeptical Inquirer and author of seven books) to take a look at it and share his […]
We supported the James Randi documentary “An Honest Liar” via Kickstarter and just got a chance to see the finished film. Directors Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein did a very good job touching on many aspects of Randi’s remarkable career as a magician and skeptic, including some footage from his early days as a performer […]
A profile of James Randi by Adam Higginbotham in the New York Times Magazine… Born Randall James Zwinge in 1928, Randi began performing as a teenager in the 1940s, touring with a carnival and working table to table in the nightclubs of his native Toronto. Billed as The Great Randall: Telepath, he had a mind-reading […]
In a Miami Herald profile, James Randi discusses how he helped Johnny Carson show up Uri Geller when the latter was booked on the show to do one of his mentalist tricks: Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, an amateur magician himself, called Randi for advice about an upcoming Geller appearance on the show. Geller had […]
Being a Woody Allen fan does not mean liking everything he does. The man makes a movie a year, and no one could keep up that pace and create a cinematic success every time. While his early movies like “Play It Again Sam” and “Sleeper” gave way to classics like “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan,” his output […]