{"id":2832,"date":"2013-10-01T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-01T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T14:12:35","slug":"someone-left-richard-harris-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/10\/01\/someone-left-richard-harris-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Left Richard Harris in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RichardOn this day in 1888, the card magic innovator Charles Jordan<\/a> was born. I have long known him because of the “Jordan Count,” which is a way of counting four cards while only showing three of them. It is the logical opposite of the “Elmsley Count.” That is to say that performing an Elmsley Count followed by a Jordan Count will return the cards to the original order. The Elmsley Count hides the third card from the top and the Jordan Count hides the bottom card. What I didn’t know until today is that he lived in Penngrove and then later in Vallejo, both towns close by me. It is also interesting that when I was a kid, the local Society of American Magicians meeting was in Penngrove, despite the fact that it is a tiny (population roughly 2,000) town.<\/p>\n

Actor James Whitmore<\/a> was born in 1921. He did a lot of acting work, but I remember him from his one-man shows. I still think such things are about the best kind of theater. Action doesn’t especially work live. But a guy just standing on stage telling stories works remarkably well—at least for me. I love stories as stories. Whitmore was great in Will Rogers’ USA<\/a><\/i>, Give ’em Hell, Harry!<\/a><\/i>, Bully<\/i>. Unfortunately, none of them are available on DVD. Here he is as Truman:<\/p>\n