WILD ABOUT HARRY

Check out this new website devoted to silent movie star Nita Naldi. Naldi played "the vamp" in Houdini's 1922 feature,  The M...

Political pundits and cartoonists just love Houdini. They always have. In Gibson's  The Original Houdini Scrapbook  you can see politica...

This originally aired in October, but I only just now caught a repeat on Spike TV. 1000 Ways To Die  showcases silly, stupid, or gross (...

Be sure and check out Wild About Harry this weekend for the fourth installment of our "Look Back" series. This time I'll exam...

On December 3, 1925, at approximately 7:53pm, Houdini gave a radio address via station WTIC in Hartford, CT. In this address he spelled ou...

The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present a special screening of Paramount's 1953 HOUDINI in memory o...

We interrupt your browsing for this very special announcement. On Wednesday, December 15, Wild About Harry will bring you an important broa...

A new documentary about magician David Blaine , David Blaine: Beautiful Struggle , had its debut last night on the Travel Channel. In it Bla...

While doing some research on Houdini's film work at the Motion Picture Academy's Margaret Herrick Library , I came across a review...

This wonderful photo, recently sold by Stephen Sparks ( GranHoudini.net ), shows Bess Houdini with director Cecile B. DeMille and his daug...

Just a shout-out to all my fellow Houdini buffs and magic bloggers to please consider adding WILD ABOUT HARRY  (www.wildabouthoudini.com...

Let's end the week with one from my own collection. Here's a beautiful original portrait shot of Houdini with a nice bold signature....

Just bumping this up as a reminder that the new documentary, No Escaping Houdini , will premiere tonight at 8 p.m. on New York's WNET Pu...

Here's another book name-checking Houdini in its title; The Snitch, Houdini and Me: Humorous Tales of Death-defying Childhood Misadven...