Not just rabbit and hat tricks
HARRY Houdini. Master of magic. Escape artist. Did his hotshot disappearing act at the turn of the century. Tony Curtis played him in a movie,
Adrien Brody on TV’s History channel. Maybe 10 films done on his life plus a Broadway musical’s been in the works.
He’s gone. At rest in Glendale, Queens. If all his tricks and shticks didn’t survive, what did was his 1914 gold pocket watch. The name’s engraved inside. (The Houdini name, not the Erik Weisz one at his birth in Budapest.)
So, to make Houdini’s watch disappear, forget sleight of hand. Try Midtown’s Aaron Faber jewelry store. Bring $45,000. The timepiece is legit.
We’re into magicians. I saw Russian-born Vitaly
Beckman at the Westside Theatre, Penn &
Teller on TV, and visited David Copperfield’s East Side triplex — he also owns Bahama island Musha Cay. Comes now Ivan Amo
dei, the illusionist in residence at LA’s Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Nine years performing his mysteries, he’s created the new show “Secrets & Illusions.” And starts a national tour Oct. 6. And we’re getting him here before you can pull a camel out of a hat.
WAIT. More. McKittrick Hotel on West 27th is doing a “hypnotic dinner” called “The Lost Supper.” Guests get transported “to another time and place . . . in a mysterious journey into the subconscious” — whateverthehell that means.