Magic...

From the age of 3 years old, I was fascinated by “magic.”  My parents tell of my taking a magic trick and deciding how it should work.  I didn’t read and talked very little, so I created “my own magic” tricks.  I spent the summer of my 7^th year as a clown with a small family-owned circus.  I would do birthday parties and magic shows for the neighborhood kids.  I graduated to bigger magic and actually earned enough money to pay for my own first car.  I was accepted into the Magic Castle as a “Junior” when I was 11 ½ years old.  Harry Blackstone would even recommend me for shows.  Many TV shows and live theatre presentations later, I still love magic even though I don’t perform it professionally anymore.  I do my “magic” technically now.

Young Gary doing the dancing cane...