Ricky Jay (1948–2018)

Autor(a) de Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos

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

Obras de Ricky Jay

Popular Recente

Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (1986) 471 cópias

Jay's Journal of Anomalies (2001) 248 cópias

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

Cards As Weapons (1900) 100 cópias

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

Celebrations of Curious Characters (2011) 66 cópias

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

Exemplars from the Ricky Jay Collection (2021) 4 cópias

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

The magic magic book: An inquiry into the venerable history & operation of the oldest trick conjuring volumes,… (1994) 2 cópias

Ricky Jay Plays Poker 2 cópias

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The Story of DIce. The New Yorker, Dec 11, 2000. 1 exemplar(es)

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Associated Works

Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (2000) — Contribuinte — 299 cópias

Magnolia [1999 film] (1999) 168 cópias

The Jewish Writer (1998) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias

McSweeney's Issue 44 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2013) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias

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

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

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo: Potash, Richard Jay
Data de nascimento: 1948
Data de falecimento: 2018-11-24
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Local de falecimento: Los Angeles, California, USA
Ocupação: magician
actor
Premiações: The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2017)

Membros

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Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric… de 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 | outras 7 resenhas | Dec 29, 2022 |

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

A master doing his life's work. Amazing

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sframe1 | May 22, 2021 |

Celebrations of Curious Characters de 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… de 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 | outras 7 resenhas | Apr 27, 2020 |

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