Imatge de l'autor

Ricky Jay (1948–2018)

Autor/a de Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

35+ obres 1,151 Membres 11 Ressenyes 1 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008

Obres de Ricky Jay

Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (1986) 467 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies (2001) 246 exemplars
Cards As Weapons (1900) 98 exemplars

Obres associades

Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (2000) — Col·laborador — 298 exemplars
Magnolia [1999 film] (1999) 166 exemplars
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 44 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2013) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Potash, Richard Jay
Data de naixement
1948
Data de defunció
2018-11-24
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lloc de defunció
Los Angeles, California, USA
Professions
magician
actor
Premis i honors
The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2017)

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Ressenyes

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 | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Dec 29, 2022 |
A master doing his life's work. Amazing
 
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sframe1 | May 22, 2021 |
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 |
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 | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Apr 27, 2020 |

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Obres
35
També de
6
Membres
1,151
Popularitat
#22,320
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
11
ISBN
20
Llengües
1
Preferit
1

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