Then he announced: “Now watch this.” James Randi’s stage name? The Amazing Randi – which he joked sounded more like a porn star than a magician. And FFS! My fag started rolling around on ...

But the controversy made the sceptic more famous in Australia. Psychic investigator James “the Amazing Randi”, in Melbourne in 1993. Randi, who turns 90 today, never said he would prove anything.

Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge on Aug. 7 ... Christ was a religious nut" during his eponymously named The Amazing Randi Show. In consultation, Randi told me of his fury at an unidentified ...

James “the Amazing” Randi was a magician, an atheist, a showman, a skeptic, a mentor, a curmudgeon, a teacher, and a friend, and now he is dead. No one needs to wish him a peaceful rest.

James Randi, a magician who later challenged ... after dropping out of high school to join the carnival. As the Amazing Randi, he escaped from a locked coffin submerged in water and from a ...

Randi, born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge and frequently known by his stage name “The Amazing Randi,” hit the big time in the 1970s when he exposed the garden-variety magic behind superstar ...

James Randi was not only a magician ... Randi, who was known as The Amazing Randi, died at the age of 92 on Tuesday. Randi was born in Toronto and dropped out of school to join a carnival.

James Randi hated tricking people. Sure, as The Amazing Randi, he pulled off amazing escape acts and sleight of hand maneuvers faster than you could see — but it was all in service of proving ...

The MacArthur grant-winning magician performed amazing escape acts and magic tricks to disprove the paranormal and, along the way, inspired... James Randi hated tricking people. Sure, as The ...