Eisenheim is an adept magician. He reunites with his longtime love, Sophie, by summoning her dead spirit in his magic shows. Sophie and Leopold are initially engaged. But during a heated argument, ...

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One of the most well-known stunts of famed illusionist Harry Houdini, remembered for his escape acts, was the milk can escape, first performed in 1908 at the Columbia Theater in St. Louis. Houdini, ...

What's the difference between a magician and an illusionist? "Illusionist gets paid more," laughed Jason Bishop, an illusionist making a name for himself with tricks of all kinds. "I'm just doing ...

Last week, Sylvain Chomet got an early — and Jacques Tati a very late — Christmas present. The New York Film Critics Circle, the nation’s oldest organization of movie reviewers, chose The Illusionist ...

Jun. 23—BEVERLY — Illusionist Lyn Dillies — the most acclaimed female magician in America — brings big-time magic back to the historic Larcom Theatre this Saturday. Once the home to "the greatest ...

We don’t know about the rest of you, but when we were grounded as a preteen, all we did while being locked in solitary was stare at ourselves in the mirror and dream of the day we’d get to move out.

The rights-holder for the 2006 film, 'The Illusionist,' wants to stop Sony's 'The Illusionist,' due out in theaters next month. By Eriq Gardner Illusion is defined as something that deceives by ...

Steven Millhauser’s 1990 short-story collection, “The Barnum Museum,” ends with “Eisenheim the Illusionist,” the mysterious tale of a brilliant magician whose most successful stage illusions are left ...