WILD ABOUT HARRY

I'm sorry to learn today of the passing of actor James Caan. While Caan is well-known for a myriad of famous film roles, I always think ...

This Memorial Day weekend Top Gun Maverick roars into movie theaters and is already setting box office records. I loved the movie and think...

Continuing my issue by issue look back at the Mystifier , the newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. T...

Continuing my issue by issue look back at the Mystifier , the newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. ...

Continuing my look back at the Mystifier , the quarterly newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. The sec...

In an interview with Cartoon Brew , Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston remembers his involvement with an unmade Hou...

Broadway World reports that Elizabeth Swados, composer of the Broadway hit  Runaways and five-time Tony nominee, has died at age 64. S...

Until the Houdini miniseries aired earlier this year, no Houdini biopic had ever acknowledged his movie career. But that would have been di...

No Hollywood producer tried harder or longer to make a movie about Houdini than Ray Stark. For more than three decades, Stark struggled to b...

This interview with Houdini  miniseries screenwriter Nicholas Meyer appeared on  Collider back in October. The website was one of several i...

It's "The Saga of Ray Stark and Houdini" co-starring Tom Cruise, James Caan, Robert Zemeckis, Paul Verhoeven, and a cast of th...

In the late 1990s Columbia Pictures planned to make a big-budget Houdini movie starring Tom Cruise. The film was to be directed by Paul ...

The list of the men who have played Houdini on screen is impressive: Tony Curtis, Paul Michael Glaser, Harvey Keitel, Guy Pearce... But even...

In a new interview on Who's Hoo at the Magic Castle , actor and magician Steve Valentine tells an interesting story about the time he ...

The October issue of MAGIC magazine (with Robert-Houdin on the cover) features an article written by yours truly about the many aborted att...