Los Angeles landmark Magic Castle has laid off almost all of its staff, as the spread of coronavirus affects businesses nationwide, Variety has learned.
The members-only club pink slipped 189 employees on Saturday, insiders said, and will operate on a skeletal staff of nine to maintain the historic Hollywood clubhouse, which sits just behind the Dolby Theater on Franklin Avenue.
The club offers dinner and a rotating roster of headlining magic acts for guests. Showman Neil Patrick Harris is a former president the board of directors, and the venue has been featured in scripted content like Judd Apatow’s Netflix original “Love.” The chateau-style building was declared a cultural monument in 1989, and is run by a group called the Academy of Magical Arts.
“Amid these extraordinary circumstances, amid this disappointing and unsettling time, the Board of Directors has decided that we must lay off most of our employees due to the necessary closures,...
The members-only club pink slipped 189 employees on Saturday, insiders said, and will operate on a skeletal staff of nine to maintain the historic Hollywood clubhouse, which sits just behind the Dolby Theater on Franklin Avenue.
The club offers dinner and a rotating roster of headlining magic acts for guests. Showman Neil Patrick Harris is a former president the board of directors, and the venue has been featured in scripted content like Judd Apatow’s Netflix original “Love.” The chateau-style building was declared a cultural monument in 1989, and is run by a group called the Academy of Magical Arts.
“Amid these extraordinary circumstances, amid this disappointing and unsettling time, the Board of Directors has decided that we must lay off most of our employees due to the necessary closures,...
- 3/22/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
We know many things about the character of Count Dracula. In Bram Stoker's original work, Dracula, he outlined a lot of vampyric rules that are still adhered to in this 21st century. Interestingly enough, it turns out that Stoker had a lot more in mind for the Count.
The document you see below is a page Stoker titled "Historiae Personae," and it was basically an outline of characteristics and characters that would appear in his legendary 1897 novel. You'll see some names that you'll recognize, names you've never heard of, and even a character who never made it into the book, a painter named "Francis Aytown." She was supposed to paint a picture of Dracula, but it turns out that he's so damned evil he could not be painted. We all knew he couldn't be photographed or cast a reflection in a mirror, but damn...
Also of note from the...
The document you see below is a page Stoker titled "Historiae Personae," and it was basically an outline of characteristics and characters that would appear in his legendary 1897 novel. You'll see some names that you'll recognize, names you've never heard of, and even a character who never made it into the book, a painter named "Francis Aytown." She was supposed to paint a picture of Dracula, but it turns out that he's so damned evil he could not be painted. We all knew he couldn't be photographed or cast a reflection in a mirror, but damn...
Also of note from the...
- 4/24/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Getty The Tupac hologram at Coachella
The technology used to project a lifelike, virtual Tupac Shakur Sunday night at Coachella has existed since the Victorian era, and at least one illusion designer believes the effect was even more remarkable in its original form.
When “scientific showman” John Henry Pepper first unveiled the trick in London in 1862, the audience saw a three-dimensional actor apparently floating on stage, according to Jim Steinmeyer, a top creator of illusions for magicians and other entertainers...
The technology used to project a lifelike, virtual Tupac Shakur Sunday night at Coachella has existed since the Victorian era, and at least one illusion designer believes the effect was even more remarkable in its original form.
When “scientific showman” John Henry Pepper first unveiled the trick in London in 1862, the audience saw a three-dimensional actor apparently floating on stage, according to Jim Steinmeyer, a top creator of illusions for magicians and other entertainers...
- 4/17/2012
- by Ethan Smith
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
When magician Harry Blackstone learned that his longtime rival Howard Thurston had died, he retreated into his dressing room and cried. Blackstone had stolen one of Thurston’s best tricks for his own act, and longed to seize Thurston’s title as the world’s most famous magician, but he still mourned the passing of an honorable rival. Since his death in 1936, Thurston has fallen into obscurity, but magic historian and illusion designer Jim Steinmeyer puts him back in the spotlight in The Last Greatest Magician In The World: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & The Battles Of The American Wizards ...
- 3/10/2011
- avclub.com
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