He has been a passion since I was young. I met a man named Geoff Byrd that took up my mind until I realized how much I was missing. ??

Not everyone has seen him that wants too. Sometimes circumstances change your mind. I did not even think about him for years. Our of sight, out of mind.

carrot top is BEND OVERRRR FUNNNYY. Real TEARSSS funny!!!

Well said.

Or any, really.

Despite all the advancements made in cosmetic surgery today”s toupee is no better than the ones from the seventies. No different than putting a dead squirrel on your head.

We are mostly in agreement here. Some moves – which are different than manufactured, marketed or sold effects – are in the public domain. That’s different from replicating a trick in the working repertoire of a Cyril Takayama, for example. A number of years back, my parents were on a cruise, and saw a magician “that did a thing with masks!” Knowing I was a magic fan, they bought his VHS tape (yes, a LOT of years back). It was NOT McBride, but it was pretty much his act, beat for beat. I contacted Jeff, and mailed the tape to him. I don’t know if he pursued it, but I got a nice package of signed McBride gear back in the mail as a thank you. Teller famously copyrighted his “Shadows” bit as a pantomime, and later won a lawsuit (at considerable cost, i’m sure) when someone copied it. This has been endlessly debated, as you know. No easy answers, other than of course the nearly universe agreement that Criss is not, in fact, very popular or very respected as a performer or a person.

While I haven’t see the latest version if Angel’s show, I did see BeLIEve.

EVERY illusion in the show I saw was done previously by other magicians. That includes the 2 or 3 variations of Houdini’s Metamorphosis. Also the disappearance from the stage and the reappearance in the audience was ok but performed by a whole bunch of people.

So at least in the performance I saw, there was nothing to steal from Angel since nothing was original.