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The Great Slydini

   Dick Cavett is pretty spectacular.  If I were allowed to do an interview show, I would essentially do exactly what he did.  Very chill, laid back, conversational and focusing on depth, art, beauty, and cutting through the bullshit of whatever a typical talk show should be.   


  He had these giant, extended interviews with some of the coolest people around at the time, hosted debates of controversial issues, and fought hard to keep his show from becoming anything but what he know it needed to be.

But still, one of the greatest things he did with his show was used it to preserve the work of Tony Slydini.  This guy is one of the greatest magicians ever.  He goes beyond fooling people who know nothing about magic, many the greatest magicians who ever lived claimed that he was the only one who could fool them.  Many times you would think that he had done all of the slight of the hand and reveal the end of the trick, and he would open his hands to show that he had done nothing yet just to fuck with you.  He would pretend to do moves that did nothing just to throw you off and make finding where he did a move, and what he did by doing it, practically impossible, even for the very trained eye.  But just watch him.  Seriously.  It's some of the best magic you will ever see.

Here are the other parts of this show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Pa8BUDq3I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pn9L92AezE

Dick Cavett also wrote a few pieces on Slydini for the NYtimes that you can read here:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/conjuring-slydini/
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/conjuring-slydini-part-2/



^This second article has another episode Slydini appeared on that you can watch.