Nickoli Sharpe
Regular user
Worldwide
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Posted: Dec 8, 2020 01:40 pm
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Hello,
For those of you who are fans of Cellini have a look at this book.
“No Ordinary Magic”
It is not written by him but by his girl friend at the time.
Great read and you get some nice insight about Jim as a person.
Nickoli
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Chatterbox41
Veteran user
Atlanta, Georgia
349 Posts
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Posted: Dec 9, 2020 12:14 am
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Quote: On Dec 8, 2020, Nickoli Sharpe wrote:
Hello,
For those of you who are fans of Cellini have a look at this book.
“No Ordinary Magic”
It is not written by him but by his girl friend at the time.
Great read and you get some nice insight about Jim as a person.
Nickoli
I’m about half way through it... saw them and remember that article the Atlanta Journal did on them in 1983. The book is an interesting biography of of the beginning of Cellinis career (and Sony Holliday too) as well as many of the buskers from 30 - 40 years ago!
Gary K
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GMcAlpin
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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 06:09 pm
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I got to have dinner with Cellini once after a lecture that he gave in Denver. He was going out with some old friends and I basically invited myself along. He was warm and funny and charming and extremely humble. I remember him telling a story about the light/heavy chest that Robert-Houdin used to avert a war in Algeria. He had met a collector who owned the actual chest and Cellini had been able to see it and touch it. I wish that I could remember who else was at the table that night. All that I recall are Cellini and Marianne. Somewhere I still have the end of a piece of rope that he snipped off during his act.
This book made me very sad. I hope that Ms. McFalls found happiness.
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Guardian452
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Los Angeles
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Posted: Jul 28, 2022 08:24 pm
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My eyes welled up reading this book - highly recommend
Been a busker since I was 14 from San Diego; Don Driver was my mentor along with many others like Jimmy Talksalot, Sleeveless (Stephen Sloan), Bob Elliott.
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Good to here.