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The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » The June 2004 entrée: Billy McComb » » How has your magic changed » » TOPIC IS LOCKED Dan Monroe Loyal user Indiana 209 Posts Posted: Jun 1, 2004 6:35pm       How do you think your magic has changed over the years if any, as you have gotten older? The power is within us all...I'm just a little more full of it. danmonroe.bravehost.com Billy McComb V.I.P. 1922 - 2006 57 Posts Posted: Jun 1, 2004 11:54pm       First of all if it's heavy it's out of the act ! If you can kid the audience you are charming and fun-loving they'll accept what you do more readily . If you appear to know exactly what you are doing the crowd will sit back and enjoy being in the hands of a seasoned pro. If you apparently have a gag for almost everything they won't heckle you And finally as an octogenarian I gag about my age so that they KNOW that I know what they're bound to be thinking and don't really give a ***! Billy Chrystal Inner circle Canada/France 1556 Posts Posted: Jun 2, 2004 2:37am       Hi, Great advice and I'm so glad that you're here as special guest of honor this week. The Café and all it's members are so lucky to have you join us. Thanks again for all your valuable insight. Chrystal Whit Haydn V.I.P. 5442 Posts Posted: Jun 3, 2004 8:09pm       Billy, when he was still relatively young, used to dye his hair white so that he could get away with using dirtier material--stuff that seemed harsh from a young man, but was funny from an older gentleman. Now he gets away with just about anything. So, in a sense, he has "grown into" his act. --Pop Haydn Pop Haydn's 21at Century Website Pop's Soapbox Pop's YouTube Channel Sphere of Destiny Los Angeles magician Billy McComb V.I.P. 1922 - 2006 57 Posts Posted: Jun 3, 2004 8:39pm       Yep. Whitis right. I used to grey it at the sides. I passed the tip on to Al Koran so that he looked older doing a mental act. Once he went off on a holiday and didn't get his hair done. Finally it all grew out a he discovered he had a glorious mane of silver gray hair !!!! Kate his wife (last heard of in Cleveland and now vanished) thought it was very funny. They asked me for her whereabouts so's they could use some of Al's stuff from the "Sullivan Show" but nobody had heard from her. Al's real name was Edward Doe. When he was cremated after his death in Chicago I collected his ashes along with George Johnstone and scattered then all over the world in places he liked. In Derek Mann's book "Mann at Sea" (he was a cruise director I knew in London when he was an auto salesman and we used to play golf together) he tells how I was scatterring ashes off the back of the ship between the Caribbean Islands and the wind changed and I got a lot of Al up my left nostril ! Billy The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » The June 2004 entrée: Billy McComb » » How has your magic changed » » TOPIC IS LOCKED <<< Previous Topic   Next Topic >>>

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