* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * New Zealand's MagicNZ e-zine * www.watson.co.nz/ezine.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Issue Number: #101 Date: Sunday 16th December 2001 Editor: Alan Watson www.magician.co.nz www.alan-watson.com e-mail AW@Alan-Watson.com ================================ Hi here is the latest news ================================ 1. Editor's Message 2. Death Of Sir Peter Blake Up The Amazon 3. 28th Australian Convention Of Magicians 4. The Magic Circle Next Regional Day In Cardiff 5. Banana-Bandana Piece - Ogden Tom 6. I Have Bitten My Tongue For Long Enough 7. Famous Magicians Honoured By A Street Name 8. Bernard's Junior Magicians Club 9. WANTED, Books and Videos 10. Supplies Of Rubber Cement 11. Upcoming NZ TV Listings... 12. The 2002 South African Magic Championships 13. Harry Potter - Publicity 14. The Orchante Saga #55 15. Diarise these events 16. MagicNZ e-zine archives 17. Subscription Management ------------------------------------ 1. Editor's Message ------------------------------------- Message from Alan Watson - The Magic One CONGRAULATIONS to Danielle and Leo Ward on the latest addition to their family, Amber Lily Egen Ward, caesarean weighed in at 2.2 kg (4 lbs) 5 weeks early. Danielle had a difficult birth - 5 units of blood later but she is doing well now. E-mail congratulations can be sent to: kiwifx@aol.com ----------------------------------------------------- Pleased to announce Steve Pradell, professional magician from Alaska will be visiting New Zealand in February/March. Lecture details to follow in due course. ----------------------------------------------------- CONGRATULATIONS to Michael Woolf, Editor of Magicana, for a first class absolutely stunning front cover December/January issue featuring Harry Potter with special glitter treatment touch. If you would like to subscribe to Magicana e-mail Michael at: michaelw@ihug.co.nz ----------------------------------------------------- 12 DAYS TO GO before New Zealand stages the BIGGEST ever magic convention and line up of international stars this country has seen. We have registrants coming from as far away as Germany, India, England, USA, South Africa, Vanuatu, Australia and right throughout New Zealand. For the Registration Form, Convention Programme and the Official Competition Form go to: www.magician.co.nz/convention2.html ----------------------------------------------------- Thrilled with the large number of unexpected congratulatory e-mails on achieving the 100th issue of MagicNZ e-zine last week from all over the world. ----------------------------------------------------- Remember if you have any magic news drop me a line: AW@Alan-Watson.com ---------------------------------- 2. Death Of Sir Peter Blake Up The Amazon ---------------------------------- Message from Paul Romhany (NZ) Just a quick message as I travel around Argentina and Chile. I was saddened and shocked to hear the death of Sir Peter Blake up the Amazon, I will be travelling up there on our ship in a months time. I worked with Sir Peter Blake many times at various functions while in New Zealand. Things down this part of the world are very up and down, especially in Brazil and Argentina with riots and so on, although we have seen no signs of any violence. Shows are going well, it will be interesting next cruise (the Xmas Cruise) because over half of the passengers will not be speaking English! On board are comedian Mickey Manners and Musician/Entertainer Bayne Bacon. ---------------------------------- 3. 28th Australian Convention Of Magicians ---------------------------------- Message from Kent Blackmore (Aust) We have another great international guest to announce! For sheer versatility, MAGIC CHRISTIAN, from Austria, will delight you. He's the winner of multiple FISM Awards for Manipulation, performer and lecturer in Close-Up, Stand-Up and Stage magic, a Marketing and Promotions specialist, and a lecturer on the psychology and presentation of magic. If that's not enough, he is also the authority on the life of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, the father of modern card magic. Volume 2 of Magic Christian's research into Hofzinser's life and magic, "Non Plus Ultra", is due for publication in late 2001. We have had a wonderful response to our first announcement that LENNART GREEN will be coming to the convention. Lance Burton's personal manager, PETER REVEEN will be visiting. And the good news is that MORE guest and event announcements will follow soon! Don't forget, the room rate for our official convention hotel, the Carlton Parramatta, is just AU$99-00 per night (GST inclusive) during the convention period. That's even less than in 1998! Registration forms are available from your local magic club or magic dealer, or at the convention website. It's on June 7 - June 10, 2002 .... If you register before March 1, 2002, take $25-00 off the registration fee! The 28th Australian Convention website is at: http://come.to/sydneymagic You can find Magic Christian's website at http://www.magicchristian.com/index_en.html SEE YOU IN PARRAMATTA IN '02! ------------------------------------- 4. The Magic Circle Next Regional Day In Cardiff ------------------------------------- Message from Peter McCahon (UK) Just to let you know that The Magic Circle is holding it's next Regional Day in Cardiff on Sunday 20th January. Location: The Glee Club, Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff Doors will open at 12.30pm for the Magicians only afternoon session featuring lectures, close up , dealers and a forum with special guest Derren Brown. Derren's new TV special will be showing over Christmas so this is a unique opportunity to hear about the man behind the show. Entrance for afternoon only free to The Magic Circle & Young Magicians Club members and £10.00 for non members (Tickets at the door) Due to venue restrictions we are operating an over 14's only policy. Public Show (over 14's only) in evening starring Marc Paul, Scott Penrose, Richard Pinner, Mark Shortland and others to be confirmed. Public show tickets only £5.00 each available on 0870 241 5093 or online at www.glee.co.uk ---------------------------------- 5. Banana-Bandana Piece - Ogden Tom ---------------------------------- Message from Tom Ogden (US) I hate to get into all this again, but before claims and accusations spiral out of control (again), let me try to stop the debate on the origination of the banana-bandana piece. I have never claimed to have been the first person EVER to do the banana-bandana bit. The point was that, when I started doing my routine in the 1970s, I had no other magicians doing it in their acts. At least, I had never seen or heard of anyone else doing anything like it at the time. But as I discovered, though, I absolutely was NOT the first magician to use the banana-bandana play-on-words. As so often happens in comedy (and magic) I had unknowingly "reinvented" a routine that had been done at least as early as American vaudeville, and perhaps earlier than that. This should not be so surprising: The "banana-bandana" pun could easily occur to anyone who "thinks comedy." The lines in my routine follow the standard instructions for the sucker torn-and-restored tissue almost exactly. It's no wonder that the routines are so similar every time a new person "reinvents" it. As a result, I have to allow that other magicians could have come up with their own routines independently, as indeed I had my version. But, as far as I know, no other magicians were doing banana-bandana routines until I started performing it at magicians conventions, at the Magic Castle and while MC'ing an "It's Magic." Of course I was upset at first when other people started doing what I thought of as a trademark piece. But that was a long, long time ago. I am no longer bothered by it or consider it in issue. In fact, I almost never do the routine anymore because of its mess and bother, although I do sometimes perform it on ships when I need a closer for a second show. As a point of interest, the routine as I perform it is NOT a trick. I conceived the routine as a comedy piece, not a magic routine. In my versions, the squashed bananas are never restored. At the end of my voice-over "lesson" the instructor-on-tape suggests that I "throw the bandana into the audience to prove it is real." I wind-up to pitch, and BLACKOUT! Readers might be also interested in when and how I first became aware of previous incarnations of the routine. I first performed my routine for magicians at an SCM (Society of Canadian Magicians) convention in Toronto around 1979. Sid Lorraine, one of my comedy magic idols, surprised me backstage after the show by saying, quite innocently and off the cuff, "Nice work on the banana bit." I was floored! It turned out that he had seen vaudeville and club performances of it dating back to before World War II, so he naturally assumed I had heard or read of the routine and had simply put my own spin on it. He even remembered seeing a comedian/magician perform a version of it on the old Jack Paar Show (which would put it somewhere between 1957 and 1962) -- AND Sid had an audio tape of it! (This was before VHS, of course. But still: Who AUDIO TAPES magicians?) I asked Sid to send me a copy of it if he ever found it, and, sure enough, two weeks later a copy arrived in the mail. The TV comedian's set-up was just slightly different than mine: Rather than following a voice-over, the "magician" acted out the steps as he read the instructions from a big book propped up in front of him. But once he got into the actual routine, it was almost word-for-word the same as mine. How did HE end the routine? Well, I don't know what it looked like, because I only have audio, but apparently he transformed the squashed bananas into a string of miniature flags -- Flags of Many Nations. Why he chose that ending, or how he accomplished it, I don't know. ---------------------------------- 6. I Have Bitten My Tongue For Long Enough ---------------------------------- Message from Bernard Reid (US) I have bitten my tongue for long enough and felt it was now time to respond. Following Ezine every week, I have followed the Banana/Bandana saga getting madder & madder as it has gone along. This year I am 60. When I was in my teens I saw the routine for the first time on black & white TV (in New Zealand) and if I remember correctly, it was the Ed Sullivan Show.(So, that is more than 40 years ago!!!!!) Years later I made my first foray into Las Vegas and at that time there was a comedy duo working called Martin & Rossi. They were working at the now defunct "The Mint" downtown (Circa 1971). The feature of their act was the Banana/Bandana Routine. Twenty years later when I was back in Vegas, Martin & Rossi were working at another defunct club (what a track record) "Vegas World" which has now been replaced by the Stratosphere Tower and still, 20 years later, this was the "hook" of their show. I worked on a show with Marty Alan some time later and we talked about it. He said that it went back to the early days of vaudeville, in fact the '20's (and probably before) and that they were the ones that presented it on the Ed Sullivan Show. I went on line and punched in Martin & Rossi and sure enough every time the name comes up it is a listing on an edition of "The Ed Sullivan Show" I am extremely puzzled as to why Tom Ogden is getting the credit (numerous times in these pages) for originating a routine that goes back to the beginning of the century and has been performed by numerous (non-magic) comedy acts. Sadly, greedy dealers have taken this and put it on the open market (like everything else) unaware of the fact that it is a routine that requires a lot of comedic skill to present correctly. Amateurs will take it and get a few laughs and think they are doing well, but until you have seen it done (as I have many times) by professional comedians with a sense of pace and timing, you haven't seen it at all. In the hands OF A TRUE PROFESSIONAL COMIC it is a gem of showbiz like "Guzzlers Gin" and "Who's On First". In the hands of an amateur it is a complete disaster. As I have seen it presented many times before it went on the market (and for legal reasons I won't mention the dealers names) there were only three acts that I have seen present it correctly, Gary Darwin, Nick Lewin & Martin & Rossi. That said, I have to be fair in stating that I have never seen Tom Ogden do it. ---------------------------------- 7. Famous Magicians Honoured By A Street Name ---------------------------------- Message from Magic Christian (Austria) As I would like to put together a compendium about famous magicians which were honoured by a street name in their cities I would like to ask everybody who knows something about this theme to contact me. I need: Name, dates of his life, city, and of course a description where abouts in this city the street can be found In Vienna we have three streets named after magicians. I think this is a record for a small country like ours. Johann Nep. Hofzinser: 1806 - 1875, 16th district, Hofzinser Gasse (= Lane) Ludwig Doebler: 1801 - 1864, 7th district, Doebler Gasse (= Lane) Anton Kratky Baschik: 1810 - 1889, 2nd district, Kratky-Baschik Weg (= road) It would be also interesting to put a compendium together with the graves of famous magicians. I have some listed as I show many magician-visitors the grave of Hofzinser at the central cemetary. Kratky Baschik is also there, as is Ottokar Fischer, and Charly Eperny. Compars Herrmann the brother of Alexander Herrmann is buried also in Vienna in the jewish part of Central Cementary . Valentino Graziadei, a former famous card man beforethe Second World War can be found on the Liesing cementary in Vienna, Austria Leopold Döbler is in Türnitz in the State of lower Austria Bartolomaeus Bosco is buried in Dresden (Germany), Kalanag is buried in Stuttgart (Germany) Whoever is interested in the exact dates of rows and numbers, please contact me. Maybe we all can put together an exact list. In the internet there one can find a lot of mistakes about dates of famous magicians. We have to try to clear them. By the way: My homepage has changed to www.magicchristian.com and the one of the Vienna Magic Club to www.magischerklub.org ---------------------------------- 8. Bernard's Junior Magicians Club ---------------------------------- Message from Kristina (Aust) Bernard's Junior Magicians Club ran their annual competition in November. Many thanks to our panel of judges who included Ross Skiffington, Gordon Arney, Lindi Jane, Luke Doxey, Rob Gailbraith and special guest judge Robert Gallop. Thanks to Andrew Gill who was our emcee on the day. Trophies were awarded on December 1st at the end of year break-up, which was held at Dracula's Theatre Restaurant here in Melbourne. The day started off with a visit to the cinemas to watch the new "Harry Potter'' movie. A great day was had by all. The results of the competitions were as follows: Stage Competition 1st - Steven Seeley 2nd- James Sedsawie 3rd- Alex De La Rembelije Close-Up Competition 1st- Steven Seeley 2nd- Alex De La Rembelije 3rd- Timothy Fensham For more information on joining Bernard's Junior Magicians Club, please feel free to contact me at Bernard's. On behalf of myself and everyone and Bernard's, Season's Greetings and a safe an Happy New Year! Kristina. BERNARD'S MAGIC SHOP (Australia's Oldest Magic Shop!) 211 Elizabeth Street Melbourne, VIC 3000 (03) 9670.9270 (phone) (03) 9600.4545 (fax) info@bernardsmagic.com.au http://www.bernardsmagic.com.au ---------------------------------- 9. WANTED, Books and Videos ---------------------------------- Message from Grant Tucker (NZ) Does anyone out there have the following that may be surplus to their requirements? If so I would be interested in purchasing these: Book Counts, Cuts, Moves & Subtlety by Jerry Mentzer Videos Cabaret Ropes by Pavel Daryl's Expert Rope Magic Vol 8 My email address is grant.tucker001@msd.govt.nz ---------------------------------- 10. Supplies Of Rubber Cement ---------------------------------- Message from Wolfgang Riebe (South Africa) Can anyone tell me where I can get supplies of Rubber Cement for the Needle thru Arm effect, or whether it sells under other names? I have tried everywhere in South Africa and keep hitting dead ends! entertrainer@wolfgangriebe.com ---------------------------------- 11. Upcoming NZ TV Listings... ---------------------------------- Message from from Edward Hall (NZ) Sunday 23rd December 2001. 5:05pm, TV3. Champions Of Magic 3. Hosted by Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Tuesday 25th December 2001. 10:35pm, Prime TV. Paul Zenon's Tricky Christmas: Street magician Paul Zenon. Edward Hall Magician - Making Life magic. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~edhall/magic ---------------------------------- 12. The 2002 South African Magic Championships ---------------------------------- Message from Craig Mitchell (South Africa) Four days of non-stop magic ... some of magic's greatest performers ... in one of the most beautiful cities on earth! The 2002 South African Magic Championships is to be hosted by the College of Magic from the 21st - 24th March 2002 at the Grand West Casino & Entertainment World in Cape Town. Superb facilities, a gem of a theatre, plus cinemas, ice-rinks and restaurants to suit every taste and budget. And with the most beautiful city on earth as a setting, delegates are sure to experience the magic that is Cape Town. And did I mention our FISM award winning International Artists? That's right .... We are proud to have as our guests: *Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne Webster (Australia) ---------------- "They have won more awards for their mind-blowing illusions than any other Australians in history. Tim is world-renowned for his highly original take on some of magic's best-loved classics ... and at the 2002 SA Magic Championships you'll see why magic & mayhem go hand in hand with Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne Webster! Voted "Most Valuable Performers" at the highly prestigious FFFF conference in 2001, Tim & Sue-Anne are a dynamo unlike any other. Two time FISM World Championship winners, over 80 television appearances and performances in nearly every major city - Tim & Sue-Anne pack energy, comedy & surprise into everything they do!" But don't take our word for it ... check out www.magic.org.za/2002/ellis.htm *Tommy Wonder (Holland) ---------------- "Welcome to a world of wonder ... experience the magic of Tommy Wonder! We are privileged to have one of magic's most influential performers of all time join us at the 2002 SA Magic Championships. A Magician With Passion Tommy Wonder is a man who needs no introduction. He has appeared in over twenty six countries. Featured on numerous television specials and has performed from Monaco to Las Vegas, New York to Japan. Author. Performer. The epitome of elegance. And most of all he is a magician with passion. At the 2002 SA Magic Championships, Tommy will demonstrate the sheer impact that true magic can have. You won't find the unnecessary glitter and glamour. But rather simplicity of structure. Acting, emotions, music & charm all combine into a poetic piece of beauty. Personality & Imagination Tommy Wonder develops all his repertoire himself, as he believes that it is the only way a performer can express his true personality & imagination. Tommy's reputation amongst his colleagues is without equal. His two volume series "The Books of Wonder" has been classed together with some of the greatest magical literature ever written. Join us at the 2002 SA Magic Championships and learn from this living legend ... experience the wonder of Tommy Wonder" Check out www.magic.org.za/2002/wonder.htm And that's just the beginning !!!! Surf on over to the official 2002 SA Magic Championships Website ... www.magic.org.za/2002 PLEASE NOTE: *Delegate numbers are **extremely limited** due to the intimate theatre setting - we will sell out ! Register as soon as possible ... secure, online registration as well as download forms are available *We have managed to secure a limited number of rooms at a greatly reduced rate at the City Lodge GrandWest Hotel - the official hotel of the 2002 SA Magic Championships. Situated within the entertainment resort, delegates are guaranteed of being right in the heart of the action ... visit the website to find out how to qualify for a 30 % saving on your accommodation booking ! Dates & Venue: GrandWest Casino & Entertainment World ... 21st - 24th March 2002 Online Registration: Registering is as easy as 1-2-3 with our secure, online credit card registration service. Save yourself the hassle of having to deal with paper, forms & post offices - click on over to http://www.magic.org.za/2002/2002reg.htm ... Print Out the Registration Form: Need some time ... download the Registration Form in PDF format -http://www.magic.org.za/2002/Registration.pdf And remember, those who register early not only save but are GUARANTEED preferential theatre seating - so don't delay ... To whet your appetite, here's a short preview of what our FISM-winning international artists have in store: *"Ellis in Wonderland" The hit lecture created by Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne Webster ! Featuring such devilish effects as 'Razorblade Swallowing', 'Deckstress', 'Cash to Credit Card', Credit Card Fax', 'Seven Keys to Paradise' and many more. Jeff Hobson - star of Reno's Carnival of Wonders - had the following to say:"Your lecture notes were among the BEST I've ever read. The selection of tricks, advice (not to mention the humor - I laughed out loud MANY times) and the clear manner in which it was written made it one of my all time favorites. I'll be using many of the ideas!" -------------- *"25 Years of Living Next Door to Ellis" Brand new! Talk about sharing the "big stuff" ... an in depth look at some of magic's treasures including 'Coins Across', '7d', 'Divide & Conquer', 'Big Deal', 'Hi Tek Deck', 'Kruger Kard Trick', and the legendary 'Soda Resurrection'. "This was without a doubt the best lecture I have seen in this century, and I would put it in the top 10 lectures I have seen in the last 40 years" Bob Klase - Tampa Bay Magic "They are consummate performers which rely upon solid magical principle to create the illusion of magic. So often we see lecturers who try to over look the glaring unrealistic use of their tricks in real world situations. Tim's FISM award winning act is not only a world class act, but a lesson in ... creative free thinking." Mark Byrne -------------- *"World of Wonder" Passion and magic are the main ingredients that infuse Tommy Wonder's famed Books of Wonder. Tricks, routines, tools and thoughts mingle and build on one another in this intensive workshop as Tommy creates a detailed picture of how magic is raised from a craft to an art, and from mere novelty to meaningful, theatrical experience. And that's just the beginning ... If you're serious about improving your magic then you just have to attend the "2002 South African Magic Championships" Head on over to our website www.magic.org.za/2002 for all the latest updates See you in 2002 ... GET READY FOR THIS ! Craig Mitchell Convention Director www.magic.org.za/2002 ---------------------------------- 13. Harry Potter - Publicity ---------------------------------- Message from Dave Harris (NZ) In regard to Harry Potter I believe that the interest in Magic by children gives us a prime opportunity to promote ourselves with the aim of getting more work and promoting magic in general. Contrary to NZ television stations reports Harry Potter actually premiered in Dunedin at 6:30 PM on the Wednesday night before the rest of the country who opened at 12:01 am Thursday morning. After speaking to Rialto here in Dunedin I was invited to preform a brief show before the movie started which I did and then was on a local radio station live broadcast from the Theatre on the Friday. (Card tricks on air do not have the same effect).) As a result of that I also got another show with over 50 children and about 30 adults. I have had kids asking if I went to Hogwarts and wanting to know more about magic. The interest in magic in Dunedin for the Otago Magic Circle has been great for business and gives us the chance to get more. We are looking at maybe doing a public show in the new year, due partly to the interest in magic. Take the opportunity with both hands. ---------------------------------- 14. The Orchante Saga #55 ---------------------------------- Message from Tommy Orchard (The Amazing Orchante)(UK ex-pat Kiwi) Hypnotic high-jinks - the funny side I got a little ahead of myself in the last paragraph. By late afternoon we had the chairs sorted out so I filled up the bathtub with steaming hot water and wallowed in it for, according to Veronica, hours, which meant nobody else was afforded the same luxury. Privileges of Rank! OUCH!!! - She's just 'belted' me one! 8 P.M. and the little town hall was nearly full - amazing really, considering how cold it was. Inside, the auditorium was akin to sitting inside an iceberg. It was bloody freezing! When I called for volunteers to join me on the -'ice-rink' - that got a laugh (well, the temperature was SO minus something awful, I kept expecting the stage to transform into an ice field), several people shivered their way up to the stage where I got them seated, then this thrumming sound started up - it was the chair legs, vibrating against the stage floor as the volunteers, who were sitting on them, shook and trembled with the cold. Under the circumstances any other sensible person, especially a hypnotist, what have cancelled the show. Apart from anything else, ARCTIC type temperatures such as we were experiencing, are not exactly conducive, in fact totally diametric, to placing a person/people into a hypnotic trance. So what did I do? Put them to sleep of course. How? The first thing I did was to tell them that, "only intelligent people can be hypnotised". This makes volunteers very attentive - nobody wants to be proved stupid! Next I asked them to look up and to concentrate their attention on one solitary light bulb - then, with the use of powerful suggestions I said to them more or less as follows, "as you concentrate, the WARM glowing light bulb will appear to grow larger and as it does, you are being bathed by its INCREASING warmth - you can feel its warmth even now. You are becoming so sleepy and warmer, sleepier - warmer" etc. etc. Gradually their shivering and shaking subsided and - OUT THEY WENT! It really is a most incongruous sight, when sitting in freezing temperatures, to be watching several people swatting IMAGINARY sand flies as they are basking on an equally imaginary, beautiful sandy beach on some far-off tropical island, somewhere in the Bahamas. It is also amazing to watch REAL beads of perspiration appear on their brows when told that the (imaginary) blazing tropical sun is becoming just a little too hot! There is nothing more powerful, than your imagination! One night we did a show at the Waiouru army camp, which is only about 20 odd miles from Taihape. Apart from fighting through snow on the desert road to get there, we had a fabulous time and of course being the military, not only was the food fantastic the 'booze' was cheap! They also had, HEATING- and lots of it! What 'sticks' in the memory about this particular show was a ten-year-old boy, who dressed in a full Scout's uniform, came up on the stage when I called for volunteers - he had obviously come (accompanied by his parents), straight from a scout club meeting. There was a segment in my hypnotic show where I have told all the subject's that they are 'totally broke' and in sheer desperation, have gone to the races and bet their last dollar, backing a horse to win, against astronomical odds, because it has never won a race in it's life. The horse's name is -'Beadle Bomb', which comes from an old record of the same name, recorded by - 'Spike Jones and the City slickers'. On the record, this particular 'NAG' runs last until right at the very end it finally, against all odds, wins! As you might imagine, all through the record the subject's are screaming and yelling - some are even cursing in sheer frustration but, when their horse finally comes in, all hell breaks loose as they whoop and holler as they collect their imagined winnings - that's in the 'millions'! While everybody else was stuffing 'enormous wads of cash' into pockets and down their shirts, trousers, blouses and skirts, our little friend in his Scout's uniform, without any kind of 'hypnotic' suggestion from me, was making himself very busy, furtively skulking around, surreptitiously 'PICKING EVERYBODY'S BULGING POCKETS'. The entire audience erupted, everybody just fell about howling and screaming with laughter - everybody that is, except the little 'fella's' parents. They were flabbergasted! Just what in the hell were they teaching their son, down at that scout club! HE'S PROBABLY GROWN UP TO BECOME A - TAX INSPECTOR. -CONTINUES - ------------------------------------- Diarise these events ------------------------------------- The 26th NZ Magician's Convention Auckland Friday 28th to Monday 31st December 2001. For The registration form, Convention programme & The Official Competition Form go to: www.magician.co.nz/convention2.html ------------------------------------- MagicNZ e-zine archives ------------------------------------- Back issues of the MagicNZ e-zine go to: www.watson.co.nz/ezine.html Both the User Name and Password MUST be entered in lower case to gain access. User Name: ezine Password: newzealand When you enter the archive the e-zines are in issue order and are coded. 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