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That's a bit overly optimistic. Is this speaking from experience or are you just assuming this is how things will all work out?

It's so cute how you people think you are so hardcore. Tudor's DVDs have to be watched multiple times not so much because the moves are just too advanced for those dirty YouTube peasants, but because Tudor just isn't that good of a teacher. He has a lot of original material, but it's going to...

No. Unless you let your audience know ahead of time that is what they're buying, no shock effects. It's too easy to alienate an audience with those. It's playing with fire. I only have your word to go on for that, but without going into people's word isn't good enough on the internet, let...

What am I looking at and why am I looking at it? At no point in that list do I see either question answered. Start from scratch.

Is it a gag? Is it meant to tell me something? Does it transition into something else? Apparently the answer to that last question is no. And if you're not going to tell me how you present then I'm just going to assume it doesn't fit and you should remove it from the act. Why? Because...

Okay, explain this to me step by step. Every time you do something, anything really, I'm an audience member asking two questions to myself. What am I looking at? And why am I looking at it? Do that now. Answer those two questions for every part of this act and we'll talk.

I have to pick? When did this happen? Why didn't anybody tell me about this?

It would if you told people what your show looks like.

You have to remember Will that you're dealing with a kvlt kiddie. They don't operate on logic, only drama. All you can do is present him with a little cognitive dissonance for his indefensible, poorly thought out opinions and watch him talk himself into a corner instead of admitting to any...

This reaction tells me that yes you do. If you were the socially stand-up guy you claim to be, you would not be having this little e-tantrum. Don't tell me that I don't know you, kid. I can read you like a telepathic Freud. I have only your word to go on for that. On the internet, that's...

Right on schedule, we had to get somebody taking the, "Boo capitalism!" stance. Let me ask you a question. Is there a specific reason you are blaming Ellusionist for this and not the artists like Michael Ammar who agreed to participate in it? Did that thought even occur to you?

Same thing. You're using mentalism as a shortcut to dealing with a heckler. You're treating the symptom, not the cause. And try saying this **** to Craig Browning and see what happens. Craig has forgotten more about mentalism that I have ever learned. Ooh, big shock there. No. What...

No! For Christ's sake, people. Mentalism is not a ****ing shortcut. Don't start. Baller and I both have done more research into social dynamics than you have. He is right about this. And no amount of whiny complaining on your part about how "arrogant" he is will change that. Magic is...

Tell him not to audition. He's going to be like a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest. He's not ready and he's not going to be without months of performing experience under his belt at the absolute minimum. Stage is a whole different monster from close-up. Don't teach him new tricks...

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And I would deny that because we cannot read minds or make things vanish or change the value of paper money. You must act in order to facilitate the suspension of disbelief. While I don't deny that magic should not be a substitution for personality, your statement of "leaving acting to those...

No mention of The Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnosis by Ormond McGill? For shame.

Glad to hear you finally recognize my genius. A pleasure doing business with you. That rather defeats the purpose of acting, no? Do you believe that Lawrence Olivier was anything like Zell the White Angel? Was Bela Lugosi as a person similar to Dracula? Or how about Bruno Ganz, the man...

No, you said not to act and just to be yourself without making any attempt to actually describe what that entails. Your earlier post would seem to suggest otherwise. Were you really in that much of a rush to moralize that you forgot to inject any nuance into your post? That's a laugh...

If you don't have it down to muscle memory, then you shouldn't be getting paid for it.