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Ricky Jay (b. 1948) is an American professional sleight-of-hand artist, actor, and author. He is considered an expert on the history of magic and oddball, unusual entertainment. Image File history File links Ricky_jay. ...
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Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation (quick fingers) or legerdemain (pronounced in French, from lightness of hand or deformation of le jeu de main i. ...
Magic, including the arts of prestidigitation and conjuring, is the art of entertaining an audience by performing illusions that baffle and amaze, often by giving the impression that something impossible has been achieved, almost as if the performer had magic or supernatural powers. ...
Performer He was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish-American family. Ricky Jay is widely considered one of the most knowledgeable and skilled sleight-of-hand experts in the United States. He is now well-known for his signature card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and inimitable stage patter. At least two of his shows, Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants and On the Stem, were directed by David Mamet, who has also cast Jay in a number of his films. Jay has also appeared in productions by other directors, notably Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, The Prestige and Magnolia, and season one of HBO's Deadwood as card sharp Eddie Sawyer. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...
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A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent or religion who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ...
Card throwing is the art of throwing standard playing cards. ...
Patter is a glib rapid speech, that accompanies and comments some actions, e. ...
David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ...
Paul Thomas Anderson at Cannes 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970[1] in Studio City, California) is an American filmmaker. ...
Boogie Nights is a 1997 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. ...
The Prestige is a novel by British writer Christopher Priest. ...
Magnolia is a 1999 drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California. ...
For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ...
Deadwood is an American television drama series that premiered in March 2004 on HBO. The series is a Western set in the 1870s in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. ...
The Cardsharps, c. ...
Until recently, Ricky Jay was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing a playing card 190 ft at 90 miles per hour (the current record is 216 ft, by Rick Smith, Jr.). Ricky Jay can throw a playing card into a watermelon rind (which he refers to as the "thick, pachydermatous outer melon layer" of "the most prodigious of household fruits") from ten paces. Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World, Brampton. ...
A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ...
Rick Smith Jr. ...
Binomial name Citrullus lanatus (Thunb. ...
The Pachydermata (meaning thick skin) is an obsolete order of mammals described by Georges Cuvier and at one time recognised by many systematists. ...
Selected filmography
Televised performances This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
For other people named John Carson, see John Carson (disambiguation). ...
October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Simon Drake is a British magician. ...
This unique, visually stunning and shocking television series ran for two series on Channel 4 in the 1980s and earned an international cult following, as well as being nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
MythBusters is an American pop science television program on the Discovery Channel starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who use their skills and expertise to test the validity of various rumors and urban legends in popular culture. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Deadwood is an American television drama series that premiered in March 2004 on HBO. The series is a Western set in the 1870s in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Feature films This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
// May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers. ...
Homicide is a crime drama written and directed by David Mamet, and released in 1991. ...
// April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael Noonan OKeefe in New York Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation is made. ...
This article is about the movie. ...
This is a list of film-related events in 1997. ...
Boogie Nights is a 1997 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. ...
Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth James Bond film made by EON Productions, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. ...
Magnolia is a 1999 drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California. ...
// April 17 - Star Wars fans begin lining up at movie theaters in Westwood and Hollywood to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ...
Mystery Men Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film directed by TV commercial director Kinka Usher. ...
State and Main is a 2000 comedy film, directed by David Mamet, starring Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman. ...
This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ...
Heist poster Heist is a crime thriller written and directed by David Mamet, and released in November 2001. ...
For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey // August 8 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman get divorced. ...
Heartbreakers (2001)A romantic comedy film, directed by David Mirkin. ...
Incident at Loch Ness is a mockumentary starring Werner Herzog and Zak Penn. ...
// Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004. ...
Last Days (2005) is a film by director Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. ...
This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ...
The Prestige is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 period film directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from Christopher Priests award-winning 1995 novel of the same name. ...
// Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing...
Books When not performing, Ricky Jay collects rare books and artifacts. He is the author of several books: - Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians - a collection of 17th, 18th, and 19th-century broadsides [1]
- Jay's Journal of Anomalies
- Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
- Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
- Cards As Weapons
- Ricky Jay Plays Poker
A broadside is a large sheet of paper, generally printed on one side and folded into a smaller size, often used as a direct-mail piece or for door-to-door distribution. ...
Consultant Mr. Jay created a consulting firm, Deceptive Practices, which provides "arcane knowledge on a need-to-know basis." His firm's clients are often within the stage, television, and film industries. He has worked with libraries and museums on their collections, including the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts and the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, CA. The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a museum located at 9341 Venice Boulevard, in the Palms district of Los Angeles. ...
Culver City sign near the intersection of the 405 and the 90. ...
External links - Official website
- Ricky Jay's page on MySpace
- Ricky Jay Archive at the Magic Newswire website
- Ricky Jay Plays Poker
- Ricky Jay at the Internet Movie Database
- Quantuck Lane Press
- San Francisco Chronicle review of "Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collection of Ricky Jay" during 2005 exhibition
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