Simon Aronson Simply Simon Pdf To Jpg
Simon Aronson - Simply Simon - Simply Simon is the third hardcover book by Simon Aronson, but it's the favored volume by most memorized deck practitioners. This book has several of the most complex but amazing memorized deck principles fully explained. The trick Everybody's Lazy is arguably the finest use of a memorized deck in print, and it's here.
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| Stedwick New user Las Vegas 73 Posts | 0 So I whipped out Try The Impossible a few days ago because I felt it was time for me to memorize a deck. Anyways, I just wanted to say that I never noticed just how much effort Aronson must have put into that book. It would take me years to figure out the workings, let alone the routining, of all those tricks. Many thanks to Simon Aronson for a fine book =) Stedwick | |||||||||
| phonic69 Special user 561 Posts | 0 I'll second that, I have his books and have learned his stack - he is a credit to magic! What are your favourite effects with the Aronson Stack, Stedwick? | |||||||||
| Stedwick New user Las Vegas 73 Posts | 0 Well, hehe, see I haven't memorized the stack yet. But I'm working on it =) The invisible card tricks look really nice. I also like the four of a kind revelations that don't require you to have the stack memorized. However, I must say one of my favorite Aronson routines without a memorized deck is 'Spell It Out.' It's just so simple and to the point: A spectator's card is lost in the deck. You then spell to it from anywhere in the deck using any other card in the deck. And it's totally impromtu using any cards. My one complaint about 'Try The Impossible' is that almost every trick involves some sort of spelling procedure. Do the other Simon Aronson books have more tricks with less spelling? Stedwick | |||||||||
| Gianni Special user WILMINGTON, DE 991 Posts | 0 Simon Aronson is one of my heroes in magic. I find his magic intellectually exhilarating. Frankly, I think Try the Impossible is one of his lesser works. If you liked it, I think you will love Bound to Please and the Aronson Approach. Gianni | |||||||||
| phonic69 Special user 561 Posts | 0 Very true Gianni, what I love about his work is that it's not for the David Blaine generation of quick, punchy and patterless magicians, but of a time when magicians could take time over their work, to build up an audience, and then devestate them with some incredible material. He's a legend! | |||||||||
| Martin Joyal Regular user 135 Posts | 0 Indeed, Simon Aronson did create marvelous effects over the past twenty years, using memorized decks and non-stacked decks. All his books are good, as well as the tricks he did publishe in various magazines. Here are only three of my favorites: 'Two Minds and A Mate', 'Past, Present, Future', and 'Madness in Our Methods'. Martin | |||||||||
| graemesd Veteran user 369 Posts | 0 i've had immense fun with stacks and have worked with aronsons and nikolas but i really love the si stebbins from-a-new-deck-shuffle i blow myself away with it mostly Does anyone know the tamaritz stack apparently it goes back to or has a reference to new deck order an help please | |||||||||
| Scott Cram Inner circle 2676 Posts | 0 Once you've posted more than 50 posts, a section we call 'The Banquet Room' will be available for your perusal. There's a thread in the 'Secret Sessions' forum (in the Banquet Room) that describes exactly how to get to Tamariz from NDO, and vice versa. Grey Matters:Blog Videos Mental Gym Presentation Store | |||||||||
| JChristensen New user St. Louis, MO 71 Posts | 0 Past, Present, and Future is a memorized deck effect I've performed many times and it gets a strong reaction. It just seems impossible to laymen (and most magicians). The effect happens without you seeming to do anything. His tipa about using a wallet to remove a duplicate of the last selection is great and makes the trick play a little larger psychologically. Check out the Busy Bees trick from Try the Impossible, it is a killer spelling trick. | |||||||||
| MarkFarrar Veteran user U.S.A. 376 Posts | 0 I would agree that all of his books are excellent, but it was 'Bound To Please' that got me going (even though I use my own stack). Great tricks include 'Some People Like To Think', 'Histed Heisted', 'Center Cut', 'Shuffle-Bored', 'SimonEyes' and 'Twice As Hard'. His magic is strong, and his books are well-written and thorough. He's definitely one of my heroes! Mark S. Farrar Email: [email]MarkFarrar@TheMagicCircle.co.uk[/email] Web: www.MagicSquaresBook.com, www.RandMPublishing.com, www.TheDailyGoalMachine.com, www.ParvoBuster.com | |||||||||
| SCGillett New user 64 Posts | 0 The free information that Simon provides on his web site is a great resource. | |||||||||
| ronin77 New user NYC 46 Posts | 0 i'm a big fan of simon's work. his descriptions of effects are exhaustingly thorough. favorite book: bound to please favorite effects: histed heisted (found in 'bound to please'); two deck canasta (found in 'try the impossible'); red sea passover (marketed effect) | |||||||||
| magicday Regular user 179 Posts | 0 | |||||||||
| phonic69 Special user 561 Posts | 0 All his books are great, what do you think the target audience is for his material? I would imagine the more mature audience... although I guess with different patter, his work could be suitable to any audience. What do you think? | |||||||||
| magicofmagic New user 81 Posts | 0 I have sessioned with Simon on a number of occassions and his approach to card magic is outstanding. His presentation of memorised deck magic is refreshing and entertaining. I started with The Aronson Approach; a fantatstic and stimulating book. I developed my trade mark effect, 'The Many Faces of a Woman from Simons 'Under her Spell'. One of the best ideas in Try the Impossible is a very practicle method for working out the number of letters in any card. This is called the Flash Speller,check it out. Thanks Simon for your wonderful contribution to magic. Sincerley Michael Vincent | |||||||||
| mentalism101 Regular user NYC 105 Posts | 0 Bound To Please is probably my favorite Aronson book, but then it was also the first one I read. Shuffle-Bored is utter genius. And for laymen who have seen a little card magic already, Red Sea kills. Twice As Hard is... Oh, just get the book! Also, check out the magicians only section on his website for collaborations and updates of some of his material. | |||||||||
| Close.Up.Dave Inner circle Behind you! 2913 Posts | 0 ive also sessioned with simon a little and he just amazing. his mind reading act his wife and he does is simply brilliant. i plan on getting his book soon, i saw his lecture notes too theyre very good. i keep seeing the aronson stack performed and it looks 10x better than si stebbins order. hes one of those people that when you meet him you follow him like a puppy, i know i did lol. | |||||||||
| tricky54 New user ohio 50 Posts | 0 i cant beleive this guy gave us (magicians that book he is incredible | |||||||||
| Joe S. Loyal user Los Angeles, CA 218 Posts | 0 Simon's non-memorized stuff is also really great. I only own Bound to Please, which I bought just a while ago. I'm going to wait until I devour that book before I buy anymore... Which is your favorite Aronson Book? Joe | |||||||||
| phonic69 Special user 561 Posts | 0 Having looked back through his material, I have tosay that shuffle bored is a great concept! Does anyone use this in table hopping? | |||||||||
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| Celebrity | |
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| Directed by | Woody Allen |
| Produced by | |
| Written by | Woody Allen |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Edited by | Susan E. Morse |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Release date | |
Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $5.1 million |
Celebrity is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, and features an ensemble cast. The screenplay describes the divergent paths a couple takes following their divorce.
The film received lukewarm reviews from critics and was a commercial disappointment.
Plot[edit]
Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is an unsuccessful novelist turned travel writer who immerses himself in celebrityjournalism following a midlife crisis and subsequent divorce from his insecure wife, Robin (Judy Davis), a former English teacher, after sixteen years of marriage.
As he stumbles his way through both professional encounters and sexual escapades with performers, models, and other players in the world of entertainment, Lee increasingly questions his purpose in life. He ruins numerous opportunities due to his fame-seeking, insecurities and neuroses.
Meanwhile, Robin trades her many neuroses for a makeover and a job with television producer Tony Gardella (Joe Mantegna) that leads to her own celebrity interview program. She takes advantage of numerous opportunities and ends up happy and successful.
Cast[edit]
- Kenneth Branagh as Lee Simon
- Judy Davis as Robin Simon
- Winona Ryder as Nola
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Brandon Darrow
- Melanie Griffith as Nicole Oliver
- Famke Janssen as Bonnie
- Joe Mantegna as Tony Gardella
- Charlize Theron as Supermodel
- Gretchen Mol as Vicky
- Michael Lerner as Dr. Lupus
- Isaac Mizrahi as Bruce Bishop
- Bebe Neuwirth as Nina
- Hank Azaria as David
- Douglas McGrath as Bill Gaines
- J. K. Simmons as Souvenir Hawker
- Dylan Baker as Catholic Retreat Priest
- Debra Messing as TV Reporter
- Allison Janney as Evelyn Isaacs
- Kate Burton as Cheryl
- Gerry Becker as Jay Tepper
- Tony Sirico as Lou DeMarco
- Celia Weston as Dee Bartholomew
- Aida Turturro as Olga
- Lorri Bagley as Gina
- David Margulies as Counselor Adelman
- Jeffrey Wright as Greg
- Tony Darrow as Moving Man
- Adrian Grenier, Sam Rockwell, and John Doumanian as Darrow's Entourage
- Greg Mottola as Director
- Michael Moon as Himself/El Flamingo Band
- Donald Trump as Himself
- Ian Somerhalder as Unconfirmed
- Karen Duffy as TV Reporter
- Frank Licari as Camera Man
- Andre Gregory as John Papadakis
Production[edit]
The film was shot in black-and-white on location in New York City by cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Celebrity was the last of four films shot by Nykvist for Allen. It also marks the end of Allen's long collaboration with editor Susan E. Morse, who had edited the previous twenty of Allen's films beginning with Manhattan (1979).
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was shown at the New York Film Festival before going into general release in the US on November 20, 1998. It opened on 493 screens, grossing $1,588,013 and ranking #10 on its opening weekend. It eventually earned $5,078,660 in the US.[1]
Critical reception[edit]
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes currently scores Celebrity with a 41% 'Rotten' rating from 41 reviews; consensus adding 'Entertaining, but too scattered.'[2] The film also holds a 41 on Metacritic.[3]Janet Maslin of The New York Times observed, 'Lee Simon is one of the filmmaker's wearier creations, in ways that deny Celebrity the bracing audacity of recent, better Allen films like Deconstructing Harry and Everyone Says I Love You. And even with Branagh as his younger alter ego, Allen finds no way to revitalize the character's predictable worries about advancing his career and chasing beautiful women . . . Though Celebrity is filled with beautiful and famous faces, it has plenty of opportunity to bog down between star turns, and some of the episodes about the Simons are astonishingly flat.'[4]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said the film 'plays oddly like the loose ends and unused inspirations of other Woody Allen movies; it's sort of a revue format in which a lot of famous people appear onscreen, perform in the sketch Woody devises for them and disappear. Some of the moments are very funny. More are only smile material, and a few don't work at all. Like all of Allen's films, it's smart and quirky enough that we're not bored, but we're not much delighted, either . . . Branagh has all the Allen vocal mannerisms and the body language of comic uncertainty. He does Allen so carefully, indeed, that you wonder why Allen didn't just play the character himself.'[5]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt the film 'suffers from lulls and lapses and one lulu of a casting gaffe, but this keenly observant spoof of the fame game is hardly the work of a burnout. At sixty-two, the Woodman can still mine caustic laughter from the darkest corners of his psyche. In Celebrity, he cracks his ringmaster's whip on a circus of rude, cathartic fun . . . Branagh, whether by his choice or his director's, plays Lee like a Woody impressionist, down to the nervous gestures and the stuttering whine . . . Lee should emerge as flawed but real in a world of gorgeous poseurs. Instead, Branagh's party-trick performance keeps audiences at a distance. What saves the day is the steady march of scintillating cameos from actors who bring out the best in Allen's barbed dialogue.'[6]
Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle stated, 'Branagh stammers, bobs his head and runs the gamut of other established Woody tics and mannerisms - delivering nervous shtick where a performance would have sufficed. His novelty act belongs in the same bin with his hammy histrionics in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . . . The irony of Celebrity is that so much of it is admirably acted, written and directed. Despite his one-note obsessions, Allen is a fine director whose stories clip along, whose dialogue sparkles and whose actors look grateful for the luxury of his words.'[7]
Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film 'a once-over-lightly rehash of mostly stale Allen themes and motifs' and added, 'The spectacle of Kenneth Branagh and Judy Davis doing over-the-top Woody Allen impersonations creates a neurotic energy meltdown . . . Branagh is simply embarrassing as he flails, stammers and gesticulates in a manner that suggests a direct imitation of Allen himself . . . For her part, Davis was brilliant in Husbands and Wives and has appeared effectively in other Allen films, but she not only overdoes the neurotic posturing this time but is essentially miscast . . . Annoyingly mannered in performance as well as tiresomely familiar in the way it trots out its angst-ridden urban characters' problems, [the picture] has a hastily conceived, patchwork feel that is occasionally leavened by some lively supporting turns and the presence of so many attractive people onscreen.'[8]
Neil Norman of London Evening Standard noted that 'many scenes, and indeed personalities, lack the credence of similar shots in Annie Hall, Manhattan or even Stardust Memories. Judy Davis's doorstepping television interviews in the Jean-Georges restaurant where she encounters several well-heeled New Yorkers, including Donald Trump (who is planning to buy St Patrick's Cathedral and knock it down) are frankly risible; a rehearsal scene in the Ziegfeld Theatre where [Winona Ryder]is being coached in the art of seducing a woman (gasp!) smacks of old-fashioned prurience. Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's turn as a lionised New York artist complaining at his opening at the Serge Sorokko Gallery in SoHo that fame will ruin him, is simply banal. Even the opening shot, of a film crew on the streets attempting to catch a reaction shot of Melanie Griffith' walking from a limo, is peopled with a veteran film-maker's notion of what young hip film-makers are like (shavenheaded, natch) rather than an identifiable reality.'[9]
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly graded the film B- and called it a 'big, muddled, contemporary variation on La Dolce Vita. She added, '[I]n every minute of DiCaprio's participation ... he juices Celebrity with a power surge that subsides as soon as he exits.'[10]
References[edit]
- ^Celebrity at Box Office Mojo
- ^Celebrity at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^'Celebrity Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ^''Celebrity': Jostling and Stumbling Toward a Fateful 15 Minutes'. Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^Ebert, Roger. 'Celebrity Movie Review & Film Summary (1998) - Roger Ebert'. Rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^'Movie Review'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^'Different Face, Same Woody / Familiar musings in `Celebrity''. Sfgate.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2008-11-10.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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- ^'Celebrity'. Ew.com. 13 November 1998. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
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