Kreskin
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George Joseph Kresge, Jr., better known as The Amazing Kreskin, (born January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) is a mentalist who became popular on North American television in the 1970s. He was inspired by Lee Falk's famous comic strip Mandrake the Magician, which features a crime-fighting stage magician, to become a mentalist himself.
He is still active as a live performer, and appears annually on CNN to give his New Year's Day predictions for the coming year. One of his best known tricks is finding his check for a performance, which he instructs his hosts to hide before each show; he has failed to find the check 9 times. Kreskin has acknowledged that he has no special powers.[1] Despite this, Kreskin's name has become somewhat synonymous with psychic prediction.
From 1971 to 1975, his television series The Amazing World of Kreskin was broadcast throughout Canada on CTV and distributed in syndication in the United States. The series was produced in Ottawa, Ontario at the CJOH-TV studios. An additional set of episodes were produced in 1975, billed as The New Kreskin Show.
[edit] Bibliography
- 1991: Secrets of the Amazing Kreskin (Prometheus) ISBN 0-87975-676-4
[edit] References
- ^ David Marks. The Psychology of the Psychic, second edition, Prometheus Books, p. 20. ISBN 1-57392-798-8.
[edit] External links
- The Amazing Kreskin, his official site
- The Amazing World of Kreskin at the Internet Movie Database
- The New Kreskin Show at the Internet Movie Database
- Kreskin at the Internet Movie Database
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