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The movie Rough Magic (1995) features as its central character a magician's assistant played by Bridget Fonda. [11] One of the central characters in the movie Leprechaun 3 is a magician's assistant called Tammy Larsen, played by actress Lee Armstrong, who appears in stage costume for much of the duration. [12]
The Zig-Zag Girl illusion is a stage illusion akin to the more famous sawing a woman in half illusion. In the Zig-Zag illusion, a magician divides an assistant into thirds, only to have them emerge from the illusion at the end of the performance completely unharmed. It was invented in 1965 by magician Robert Harbin. [1] [2]
She celebrated by appearing on TV to perform a trick accompanied by Daniels as her assistant "The Lovely Paul", who was not allowed to speak during the performance. [12] [13] McGee was the 2017 winner of the Magic Circle's Maskelyne award "for services to British Magic", the same award that her husband received in 1988. [14]
Magician P. T. Selbit performing a version of the trick in 1937. Sawing a woman in half is a generic name for a number of stage magic tricks in which a person (traditionally a female assistant) is apparently cut or divided into two (or more) pieces.
Helen started working as a magician's assistant at the Magic Castle. [6]In 1987, she was the first woman in the world who completed for the first time the fear-inducing underwater act known as Houdini's Water Torture Escape, created by the legendary Harry Houdini.
Miller became highly regarded among professional magic performers and is widely cited as one of the all-time great magic assistants. [6] She features in the 2008 documentary movie, Women in Boxes, which explores the vital role of assistants in magic. [7] [8] In 1993 she received the Dragon Award presented by the J. Marberger Stuart Foundation. [9]
The Magician's Assistant is a novel by American author Ann Patchett, published in 1997 by Harcourt. The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction . The narrative follows a young woman named Sabine in the aftermath of her husband's death.
In circus and vaudeville acts, a target girl is a female assistant in "impalement" acts such as knife throwing, archery or sharpshooting. The assistant stands in front of a target board or is strapped to a moving board and the impalement artist throws knives or shoots projectiles so as to hit the board and miss the assistant.