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Real life, Master Magician, Lance Burton, plays onscreen performer, BILLY TOPIT MASTER MAGICIAN in this forthcoming movie, due out in September. What's it all about? Billy Topit is excellent at performing magic, he is just not very successful. His life gets complicated when some greasy mob guys come after him looking for money. Billy uses his magic skills to avoid confrontation as long as he can, because he wants to concentrate on his magic career and his new girlfriend.
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"Some magic tricks are better as an experience when explained. They’re more interesting, more multileveled, more ingenious. [In one act, we get to watch Teller wiggle through tight spaces.] Most are disappointing, except to a real connoisseur. " - Matthew Hutson
Read what Teller (of Penn & Teller) has to say about revealing magic in this aricile by Matthew Hutson from The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking.
