Ricky Jay (1948–2018)

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Ricky Jay was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He first performed magic in public at the age of 4. At the age of 7, he appeared on a television show called Time for Pets, plopping a guinea pig into a top hat and appearing to turn it into a chicken. He left home as a teenager vis mere and worked at Lake George and at the Electric Circus. He appeared in about 40 movies and television shows including House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Redbelt, State and Main, Tomorrow Never Dies, Boogie Nights, and Deadwood. In the 1990s, he and Michael Weber founded the consulting firm Deceptive Practices. Their film-industry projects included a wheelchair that made Gary Sinise's Vietnam War-veteran character in Forrest Gump appear to be a double amputee. Jay wrote several books including Cards as Weapons, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Celebrations of Curious Characters, and Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living. He died on November 24, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Image credit: Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008

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Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (1986) 470 eksemplarer

Jay's Journal of Anomalies (2001) 247 eksemplarer

Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck (2002) 119 eksemplarer

Cards As Weapons (1900) 100 eksemplarer

Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay (2005) 85 eksemplarer

Celebrations of Curious Characters (2011) 66 eksemplarer

Matthias Buchinger: "The Greatest German Living": By Ricky Jay Whose Peregrinations in Search of the "Little Man of… (2014) 37 eksemplarer

Exemplars from the Ricky Jay Collection (2021) 4 eksemplarer

Many Mysteries Unraveled or Conjuring Literature in America 1786-1876 (1990) 2 eksemplarer

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Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 299 eksemplarer

Magnolia [1999 film] (1999) 167 eksemplarer

The Jewish Writer (1998) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer

McSweeney's Issue 44 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2013) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer

Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys [sound recording] (2006) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay [2012 film] (2013) — Himself — 4 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn: Potash, Richard Jay
Fødselsdato: 1948
Dødsdag: 2018-11-24
Køn: male
Nationalitet: USA
Fødested: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dødssted: Los Angeles, California, USA
Erhverv: magician
actor
Priser og hædersbevisninger: The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2017)

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Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric… af Ricky Jay

An incredible illustrated historical account of circus's and sideshows from history with stunning, disturbing, haunting, peculiar and weird imagery from programs and posters that were used to advertise these shows. It's a fantastic book that I re-read regularly and truly mark as one of the best of its kind, even this many years since its release.

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Chris.Cummings | 7 andre anmeldelser | Dec 29, 2022 |

MMS Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of… af Ricky Jay

A master doing his life's work. Amazing

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sframe1 | May 22, 2021 |

Celebrations of Curious Characters af Ricky Jay

One of the many "compendium of oddities" books I always end up buying alongside stuff like "Medical Aberrations & Modern Day Monsters" and picture books of limbless musicians. I only wish it was longer. Very pretty but kinda flimsy. I like "learned" as an adjective quite a bit.

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uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 |

Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric… af Ricky Jay

An exhaustive exploration that will captivate you if you have the interest. We've enjoyed being tricked for a long time.

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ThomasPluck | 7 andre anmeldelser | Apr 27, 2020 |

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