M Is FOR MASHUP - July 14th, 2010
For You This Summer Will Never End
By DJ Useo
You have just hit the mashup jackpot! SUMMER BOOTY 2010 is a new 3-disc collection of all-new mashups from 32 excellent mashup producers. I personally had the thrill of arranging & producing this fantastic new collection. Can you imagine the fun I had as each new track arrived? It was so worth the investment of time & energy. I also had the joy of talking with one fine batch of human beings.
The Summer Booty mashup albums started in 2007 when I realized that many of my all-time fave songs had a discernable 'eternal summer' feeling to them. I know it's an old song, but have you ever heard the Zombies 'Time Of The Season'? When I hear that Zombies song I feel like I'm driving a convertible on a sunny beach. Hear it for youself & see what I mean. Secondly, I noticed I knew enough other mashup mixers that I reckoned we could easily get enough tracks to make the collection viable. Sure enough, SUMMER BOOTY 2007 literally shook with the summer vibe.SUMMER BOOTY 2008 & 2009 followed to even more warm reception.
When it came to SUMMER BOOTY 2010 I was more hepped than ever before. With the current pals I have & other bootleg connections, I was sure this would be the best collection yet. Still, people have their own lives & are not always available to participate in a project like this. Knowing that, I invited 56(!) different bootleggers in the hope that at least half would be able to get this comp to a generous 2 discs. Imagine my delight when so many excellent tracks came in that the project swelled to 3 discs!
The album starts with one of the best longer mixes I've heard in years. Hahnstudios' 'World Cup Mix 2010' is 20 minutes of the most exciting,sport-oriented, summery mixing you'll hear for quite a while. There's an incredible 10-minute version with video
here - ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2jJ57MRCxI )
Then, you run through an astonishingly fine collection of mashups by the likes of DJ Moule, Solcofn, A Plus D, Pomatic & so many more top mixers your head wll explode.
More videos have appeared as well. The Reborn Identity whipped up a great video version of his Michael Jackson/Goldfrappe track
here - ( vimeo.com/12643405 )
DJ MashUp not only did the best Country & Western mashup I can recall, but crafted a must-see video too -
vimeo.com/13023430
The comp is really roaring through the download numbers & now has several mirror links to make sure you get a copy. All working links found
here - ( djuseo.podomatic.com/entry/2010-07-06T20_20_43-07_00 )
&
here - ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-booty-2010.html )
The icing on the cake has arrived too with a loooong mix from the skilled hand of BUDTHEWEISER (
budtheweiser.blogspot.com/ )
It contains parts of all 3 discs & runs nearly 3 hours! Perfect for your summer party music experience.
Past SUMMER BOOTYS available
here - ( http://djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Big gracias to all the talented contributors who helped bring my dream to life. For all of us who hear the album,this summer will never end!
Mix Of The Week
BUDTHEWEISERS' 'Summer Booty Mix 2010' has all the essential elements of what you want in a long mix. Say no more.Grab it
here - ( djuseo.podomatic.com/entry/2010-07-06T20_20_43-07_00 )
Mashup Tip
Give a person a pella & they'll make a mashup, but teach that person to extract a pella & ...etc
Newest Useo Thing
Lifes A Gas Wid Nit Wit (Bang Bang Machine vs The Sabres Of Paradise). Ok, I don't normally do too many 'mellow' tracks, but this one just had to be. It uses a cover of an old T.Rex song.
( http://groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/07/lifes-gas-wid-nit-wit-bang-bang-machine.html )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF: Waiting for Gandhi (nytimes.com)
BILIN, West Bank. Despite being stoned and tear-gassed on this trip, I find a reed of hope here. It's that some Palestinians are dabbling in a strategy of nonviolent resistance that just might be a game-changer.
GAIL COLLINS: The LeBron Angle to Everything (nytimes.com)
Our American duty does not lie in celebrity name-dropping. But let's talk about LeBron James and Lindsay Lohan.
MAUREEN DOWD: Miami's Hoops Cartel (nytimes.com)
LeBron and the James Gang make a big public relations mistake.
Scott Burns: Beware of Special Places with High Yields (assetbuilder.com)
Prayers are seldom answered in newspapers. When it happens, we notice. That's why many readers have asked about the high FDIC-insured yields that are advertised in newspapers across the country.
LARRY ROHTER: Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant (nytimes.com)
Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous - that's the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading "Huck Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role of the angry prophet.
"Citrus County" by John Brandon: A review by Janet Potter
Citrus County is the story of a crime that tears apart middle school classmates Toby and Shelby. Toby is the criminal and Shelby is the victim, but Toby hasn't been caught. Actually, he and Shelby are dating. And their lives aren't torn apart in the sense that they become the center of a police investigation, or are ripped from their normal lives. They're torn apart because the original crime turns them into teenagers who live very comfortably with the worst incarnations of themselves.
Kevin C. Johnson: 'Funplex' keeps the B-52s in flight (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
The B-52s, a retro party band known for colorful vintage suits and beehive hairstyles, hasn't been the most consistent recording act in the past couple of decades.
Who is Britain's hottest new artist? A 76-year-old called Rose Wylie (guardian.co.uk)
Germaine Greer on Britain's hottest new artist, 76-year-old Rose Wylie.
Nothing to see here - beyond the blockbuster exhibitions (guardian.co.uk)
It's blockbuster season at the big galleries. But Stuart Jeffries knows where he'd rather be - at Britain's small spaces, where the truly thrilling work is to be found.
Decca Aitkenhead: "Hayley Taylor: 'I've felt what the unemployed feel: losing confidence, staring at four walls'" (guardian.co.uk)
The star of the new reality TV show 'The Fairy Jobmother' on getting the long-term unemployed back to work.
Will Harris: A Chat with Giancarlo Esposito of "Breaking Bad" (bullz-eye.com)
One of my favorite scenes all season was when Gus and Bolsa were on the phone, and he's calling me while the hit man is at his place. That, to me, just showed that ruthless part of Gus, that was accommodating and not overexcited, but basically he's talking to a man on the phone who's getting killed at his order right there in the present, at that moment. To me, that was justŠthe way that was done was just absolute art.
Richard Roeper: Have the closing credits rolled on Mel Gibson's career? (suntimes.com)
It takes a lot -- a LOT -- to get kicked out of show business. Just ask Robert Downey Jr.
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime' Edition
ST. PETERSBURG - Three homeless men bearing cardboard signs near Interstate 275 were not pleased when they read the newspaper Friday morning. That's how they learned the City Council, with the mayor's support, unanimously voted to ban street solicitation on St. Petersburg's busiest streets...
Panhandlers say St. Petersburg street solicitation ban will make things worse - St. Petersburg Times
Do you give money to panhandlers?
a.) Yes, always, there but for fate go I...
b.) No, never, they're just lazy bums and it only goes to their substance abuse...
c.) Sometimes, depends on the circumstances...
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'The Big Country'
"The Big Country"
Directed by William Wyler
From time to time, great themes from political thought come to life in spectacular fashion from decades ago to entertain and inform our contemporary wisdom. Hollywood had this one right from the gitgo in "The Big Country"; today's politics are reflected spot-on. Director William Wyler employed the most bankable stars of the 1958 day and put together an outstanding cast, (with my personal objection to Carroll Baker's squeaky-vampy chalkboard voice). Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, (Oscar Winner for his Supporting role), Chuck Connors, Jean Simmons and Charles Bickford.
As I write, TCM is airing this classic that I've watched close to fifteen times over the decades, and I'm always struck by not only its relevance to issues left/right that stand the test of time, but the politics of the two leading characters; Heston and Peck that directly translated from their screen personas into their personal lives. Art imitates life, so the saying goes..
Peck, throughout his career chose roles that showcased his innate nature; that of a reasonable man, solving violent confrontations with calm and wit. Including his brilliant turns as Ahab in "Moby Dick", and as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird", he consistently decided to flaunt or mock violent extremism in almost every portrayal he undertook, and as Capt. Jim MacKay in this movie his own personal lifetime politics came to the ultimate fore. Well before this movie was made, his stellar reputation was made as bankable from his considerable filmography resume, so he produced this one, as well as starred in it. Which brings us to this weirdness..
Heston had yet to star in the epic 1962 "Ben-Hur", so his reputation as box-office gold was yet to be established, so my bet is that Peck cast Heston's considerable abs before he knew about Heston's proclivities for male gun-enhancement pre-NRA.
The entire premise of "The Big Country" pits reason over emotion, so I give Peck five stars for the entire production, his acting in it, and the music score sets the bar very high for painting a lyrical picture of the vastness that is our West.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and much warmer.
NYC Court Tosses Policy
FCC
A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, concluding that the rule was unconstitutionally vague and had a chilling effect on broadcasters.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan struck down the 2004 Federal Communications Commission policy, which said that profanity referring to sex or excrement is always indecent.
"By prohibiting all `patently offensive' references to sex, sexual organs and excretion without giving adequate guidance as to what `patently offensive' means, the FCC effectively chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive," the appeals court wrote.
"To place any discussion of these vast topics at the broadcaster's peril has the effect of promoting wide self-censorship of valuable material which should be completely protected under the First Amendment," it added.
FCC
Benefit Raises $2.2M
Hill & McGraw
The Nashville Rising benefit concert led by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw has raised over $2.2 million for flood victims in middle Tennessee.
The total came from sold-out ticket sales, donations and sponsorships. It will be distributed through the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
Last month's all-star concert included performances by Hill, McGraw, Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, LeAnn Rimes, Luke Bryan, Michael W. Smith, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith and ZZ Top.
Hill & McGraw
Star On Memphis Music Sidewalk
Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is being honored with a star in a music sidewalk in Memphis, Tenn.
Plant was presented Monday with a star that will be placed on the Orpheum Theater Sidewalk of Stars on Beale Street.
During the presentation ceremony, Plant spoke of blues pioneers like Sonny Boy Williamson, Sleepy John Estes and W.C. Handy in acknowledging that a generation of British musicians owe a debt to early Southern blues artists.
Robert Plant
3 Women To Receive
Freedom Awards
This year's Freedom Awards from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., were announced Tuesday and will be given out in an Oct. 6 ceremony.
Honoree Dorothy Cotton was the education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1960 to 1968 and was at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968.
Wangari Maathai of Kenya founded the Green Belt Movement, which has helped plant more than 40 million trees at farms, schools and churches. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
Actress Eva Longoria Parker founded Eva's Heroes, a charity that helps developmentally disabled children.
Freedom Awards
Wedding News
Cruz - Bardem
It's a match made in Oscar heaven: Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have gotten married.
Cruz's representative Amanda Silverman confirms the couple were married in the beginning of July at a friend's house in the Bahamas.
Cruz's wedding dress was designed by a longtime friend, fashion designer John Galliano.
Cruz - Bardem
Replacing Judas On 'This Week'
Christiane Amanpour
to start Sundays on ABC
ABC said Tuesday that the former CNN international reporter begins as host of "This Week" in less than three weeks. Amanpour was a surprise hire to replace George Stephanopoulos on the Sunday political show, which competes with NBC's "Meet the Press" and CBS' "Face the Nation."
With an August start, ABC wants Amanpour to get in the Sunday morning rhythm and get a few shows done before the political season starts in earnest.
Jake Tapper has filled in as host for the past several months.
Christiane Amanpour
Signs New ESPN Deal
Erin Andrews
ESPN fan favorite reporter Erin Andrews has signed a new multi-year deal with the sports cable channel.
Andrews will join the network's new College GameDay lineup, contributing reports during the ESPN portion of the show, in addition to working as a sideline reporter. Andrews will also become a regular contributor to ABC's "Good Morning America."
Andrews started with ESPN in 2004, covering the NHL's Stanley Cup Finals. Her job expanded in 2005 to include MLB reporting. Earlier this year she was a contestant on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
Erin Andrews
Lawyers Call For Investigation
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski's lawyers have issued a statement calling for an investigation into the U.S. refusal to provide requested evidence to Swiss authorities in his 33-year-old sex case.
The one-page statement released Tuesday in Los Angeles made no personal reference to Polanski or his reaction to Monday's ruling freeing him from Swiss custody.
The attorneys asked for the appointment of a commission by the California governor or attorney general to look into possible official misconduct in the 1977 case
They said the Los Angeles County district attorney purposely withheld the material sought because it would have undermined the extradition request. They refused further comment.
Roman Polanski
Admits Arson
Christopher Cimini
A man has admitted setting fire to the offices of Philadelphia International Records, though his attorney says he was too drunk to remember doing it.
Christopher Cimini pleaded guilty Tuesday to arson and related charges.
The record label was home to Teddy Pendergrass, Patti LaBelle, Lou Rawls and the O'Jays. Owners Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, who helped popularize Philadelphia soul in the 1960s and '70s, lost much of their memorabilia in the fire.
Investigators have said Cimini was drunk and likely thought he was somewhere else when he broke into, vandalized and set a fire in the downtown building Feb. 21.
Christopher Cimini
Felony Charge Dropped
Rip Torn
Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped a felony burglary charge against actor Rip Torn, clearing the way for him to seek special probation that might settle charges that he broke into a bank while drunk and armed in January.
The Emmy-winning actor, 79, applied for accelerated rehabilitation, a program for first-time nonviolent offenders that allows charges to be dropped after a probation period.
Prosecutors will argue against the application at a hearing Aug. 11, Litchfield State's Attorney David Shepack said. Torn spoke in court Tuesday to answer questions from the judge only.
Despite opposing the special probation request, Shepack said dropping the burglary charge was appropriate because nothing indicated Torn intended to burglarize the Salisbury bank when he broke in, thinking it was his own nearby home.
Rip Torn
Testifies In Extortion Trial
John Stamos
Actor John Stamos testified Tuesday that he was "heartbroken" over the separation from his wife six years ago when he first met a woman now charged with conspiring to extort $680,000 from him.
The "Full House" and "ER" star took the stand during the federal trial of Allison Coss and Scott Sippola, who are accused of demanding money from Stamos, saying they had photos of him with cocaine and strippers they could sell to a magazine.
Under questioning by prosecutors, Stamos said he met Coss in Orlando, Fla., in 2004 when he was taken there by friends trying to cheer him up after separating from his wife, actress and supermodel Rebecca Romijn.
Defense attorney Sarah Henderson had alleged that Coss met Stamos when she was 17 and that the two had a romantic fling, which his attorney denies.
John Stamos
Plea Deal In Jewelry Theft
Julie Newmar
A man accused of stealing jewelry from Julie Newmar has pleaded no contest to grand theft.
Robert Ouriel entered the plea Tuesday in Los Angeles and was sentenced to three years probation and 45 days of community service.
The 49-year-old Ouriel has been described as an acquaintance of Newmar, who played the first Catwoman on the 1960s TV show "Batman."
The actress spotted the stolen jewelry for sale on eBay and estimated it was worth $150,000.
Julie Newmar
Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson
In 1985, Mel Gibson was declared People magazine's first ever "Sexiest Man Alive". Ten years ago, women flocked to see him in "What Women Want" playing a chauvinistic executive who finds he can read the female mind.
But in the last week, tape recordings apparently with the Oscar-winning actor ranting and cursing his ex-girlfriend in angry tirades that included racial and sexist slurs have shocked and alienated his female fans, media watchers say.
Yet unlike public condemnation from movie industry big-wigs over Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic outburst in 2006, there has been little official comment about his misogynist tirade -- a reflection, some say, of lack of female clout in Hollywood.
"People should be talking about the anti-women stuff as much as they talk about the racist stuff," said Melissa Silverstein, who runs the Women & Hollywood blog.
"It is indicative of where women are in Hollywood," Silverstein said. "It's about power, and the boys have it."
Mel "Sugar Tits" Gibson
More Racist Oinkings
Pigboy
Rush Limbaugh had his own view of George Steinbrenner.
"That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires," the radio commentator said Tuesday on his show after the New York Yankees owner died at age 80. "He fired a bunch of white guys as managers left and right."
Rev. Al Sharpton called Limbaugh's statements "repugnant and offensive whether they were intended to be facetious or tongue and cheek."
Pigboy
Seats Get Bigger
U.S. Theatres
Seats in U.S. theatres have gotten bigger during the last century to accommodate the expanding size of the members of the audience.
A new report by Theatre Projects Consultants, a company that helps to design theatres, showed that from 1900 to 1990, the width of seats increased from 19 to 21 inches (48 to 53 centimetres).
In the last 20 years seat size has expanded an inch. Leg room has increased and space between rows has also grown.
Between 1960 and 2000 the average weight of an adult American has increased more than 24 pounds (11 kilos), or 15 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. Theatres
Key To Success In Sports
Belly-Buttons
Scientists have found the reason why blacks dominate on the running track and whites in the swimming pool: it's in their belly-buttons, a study published Monday shows.
What's important is not whether an athlete has an innie or an outie but where his or her navel is in relation to the rest of the body, says the study published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics.
The navel is the center of gravity of the body, and given two runners or swimmers of the same height, one black and one white, "what matters is not total height but the position of the belly-button, or center of gravity," Duke University professor Andre Bejan, the lead author of the study, told AFP.
Individuals of West African-origin have longer legs than European-origin athletes, which means their belly-buttons are three centimeters (1.18 inches) higher than whites', said Bejan.
That means the black athletes have a "hidden height" that is three percent greater than whites', which gives them a significant speed advantage on the track.
Belly-Buttons
Busy Ahead Of Medieval Battle Replay
Armor Makers
Just like his Medieval counterparts 600 years ago armourer Tomasz Samula has hardly any time to outfit his knights before battle commences.
Samula is racing to add the final touches to the metal breastplates, helmets, gloves and other accoutrements needed by the Lublin knights before they take part in re-enacting Grunwald, one of the largest battles of the Medieval age.
Saturday, thousands of re-enactors will become the knights, infantry, artillerymen and other combatants of the Polish-Lithuanian army and the Teutonic Knights who they defeated in a massive battle on a field near this Polish village in 1410.
The fashioning and fixing of armor in time for the battle has put a smile on the faces of armourers. A full suit can cost up to 5,000 euros ($6,298) or more.
Armor Makers
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for July 5-11. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 11.95 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.82 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 10.74 million.
4. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 9.15 million.
5. "Wipeout" (Tuesday), ABC, 8.76 million.
6. "The Mentalist," CBS, 8.64 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.58 million.
8. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.51 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 8.32 million.
10. "Wipeout" (Thursday), ABC, 7.89 million.
11. "Big Brother 12" (Thursday), CBS, 7.35 million.
12. "Hell's Kitchen" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), Fox, 7.2 million.
13. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 7.198 million.
14. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.07 million.
15. "Big Brother 12" (Sunday), CBS, 7.04 million.
16. "Minute to Win It" (Wednesday), NBC, 6.97 million.
17. "CSI: NY," CBS, 6.71 million.
18. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.61 million.
19. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.6 million.
20. "Hell's Kitchen" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), Fox, 6.597 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Tuli Kupferberg
Tuli Kupferberg, a founding member of the Fugs, one of the first underground rock groups and a staple on the anti-war protest scene in the 1960s, has died.
Kupferberg, who had suffered strokes in the past year, died Monday in a Manhattan hospital, said his friend and bandmate Ed Sanders. He was 86.
Kupferberg's contributions were recognized in January when Lou Reed, Sonic Youth and others appeared at a benefit concert in Brooklyn to help pay for some of his medical expenses. He was too ill by then to attend the show, but recorded a 10-second video message, according to the New York Times, thanking the audience.
The Fugs were formed by Sanders and Kupferberg, who were neighbors on Manhattan's Lower East Side in early 1965, according to the band's website. Their name, a substitute for a common expletive, was inspired by Norman Mailer, who used it in his classic, "Naked and the Dead."
The band ran in the same circles as Andy Warhol, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other icons of the 1960s. It often performed at peace protests.
Kupferberg once referred to the band as "the U.S.O. of the left," according to the Times.
The group disbanded in 1969, but reformed several times since. It performed for a time on the Reprise label, which was owned by Frank Sinatra, who had final approval on album releases.
Kupferberg, who also was a poet, produced cartoons for the Village Voice and had a longtime television program on the Manhattan public access cable channel, Sanders said. He posted some recent performances, which he called "preverbs," on YouTube, including, "Backward Jewish Soldiers (Hug your Gentile brothers)," which was his adaptation of the classic, "Onward Christian Soldiers."
He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Topp; three children and three grandchildren.
Tuli Kupferberg
In Memory
George Steinbrenner
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, whose immense drive and deep pockets revived baseball's most storied team and built a sports empire, died on Tuesday, his family said.
Nicknamed "The Boss," Steinbrenner was one of the most powerful and wealthy figures in US sports. He had owned the famed New York team since 1973, enjoying seven World Series championships, including last year.
While Steinbrenner became synonymous with the Yankees, he had other sports interests. A former gridiron coach, he served as a vice president of the US Olympic Committee from 1989-96 and entered six horses in the Kentucky Derby - none of them winners.
Steinbrenner, who celebrated his birthday on July 4, had been in poor health for several years and had passed day-to-day control of the team to his sons Hal and Hank in 2007.
While Steinbrenner enjoyed his reputation as "The Boss" he could also poke fun at it.
He hosted the television comedy show "Saturday Night Live," appeared with Billy Martin in a television commercial and was said to find his brusque characterization on the US TV comedy "Seinfeld" amusing.
While known for his iron fist, Steinbrenner also made millions of dollars worth of charitable contributions - many coming with the condition that his name be kept secret.
"He was an incredible and charitable man. First and foremost he was devoted to his entire family - his beloved wife, Joan; his sisters, Susan Norpell and Judy Kamm, his children, Hank, Jennifer, Jessica and Hal; and all of his grandchildren," the family said.
George Steinbrenner
In Memory
Glenn Falkenstein
Glenn Falkenstein, an acclaimed magician whose "spirit cabinet" illusion with wife Frances Willard wowed television audiences and crowds around the world, has died, his wife said. He was 78.
A longtime Los Angeles resident, Falkenstein rose to fame in the 1970s by impressing audiences with mind-reading tricks on his radio show. He also took his magic act to television, including one of Regis Philbin's early talk shows, and appeared in shows in Las Vegas, opening for such headliners as Ann-Margaret.
He performed regularly at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Calif., a private club for the Academy of Magical Arts, Inc., and was Stage Magician of the Year in 1971.
In 1984, he married Willard, daughter of famed magician Harry Willard, and the duo performed their signature "spirit cabinet" trick worldwide. The illusion had Willard bound to a chair within a curtained enclosure while items placed inside began flying about.
When not performing, Falkenstein taught speech pathology at Los Angeles schools.
Besides his wife, Falkenstein is survived by a daughter, Cathleen Yeisley, of El Paso; a sister, Dale Myerson, of Phoenix; and several grandchildren. A son, Michael, and another daughter, Claudia, died earlier.
Glenn Falkenstein
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