Ricky Jay (1948–2018)

Auteur van Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

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Over de Auteur

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 toon meer 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) toon minder

Fotografie: Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008

Werken van Ricky Jay

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Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (1986) 470 exemplaren

Jay's Journal of Anomalies (2001) 247 exemplaren

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

Cards As Weapons (1900) 100 exemplaren

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

Celebrations of Curious Characters (2011) 66 exemplaren

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

Exemplars from the Ricky Jay Collection (2021) 4 exemplaren

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

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

Ricky Jay Plays Poker 2 exemplaren

Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 2 num 2 1 exemplaar

Jay's Journal of Anomalies Announcement 1 exemplaar

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The Ricky Jay Collection 1 exemplaar

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Ricky Jay Plays Poker 1 exemplaar

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay 1 exemplaar

MMS Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay DVD 1 exemplaar

Many Mysteries Unraveled or Conjuring Literature in America 1786-1874 1 exemplaar

Pure Magic 1 exemplaar

The Story of DIce. The New Yorker, Dec 11, 2000. 1 exemplaar

Jay's Journal of Anomalies Announcement 3 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam: Potash, Richard Jay
Geboortedatum: 1948
Overlijdensdatum: 2018-11-24
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Los Angeles, California, USA
Beroepen: magician
actor
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2017)

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Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric… door 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 andere besprekingen | Dec 29, 2022 |

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

A master doing his life's work. Amazing

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sframe1 | May 22, 2021 |

Celebrations of Curious Characters door 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… door 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 andere besprekingen | Apr 27, 2020 |

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