When Derren Met Jerry

The Derren Brown fanblog AboutDerrenBrown has a great article discussing the role Jerry Sadowitz was instrumental in Derren Browns meeting with Andrew O’Connor and Michael Vine that led to his first TV special and ultimately the public recognition he currently has.

It also points out that Andrew O’Conner originally approached Andy Nyman about the mindreader special, but he turned it down wanting to concentrate on his acting career.

There are no regrets from Andy who says: “Derren was a far better choice for the job than me because he’s a genuinely odd bloke,… He’s really quite unsettling.”

The full article can be read here.

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Psychokinetic Silverware DVD by Gerry And Banachek

If you really could bend metal with your mind, Psychokinetic Silverware is exactly how it would look. Watch as cold, hard steel melts like butter...bending, twisting, breaking and moving seemingly on its own. Tines on forks twist like spaghetti and spread apart like a blooming flower. Silverware moves and bends in the spectator’s hand! Banachek’s metal bending is so amazing and so realistic that he has often been accused of being and doing “the real thing.” In fact, after... [more...]