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zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 13230

AN HONEST LIAR - Truth and Deception in the Life of James The Amazing Randi

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NY Times Critic's Pick AN HONEST LIAR is an award-winning feature documentary about the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. The film brings to life Randi’s intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos. But when a shocking revelation in Randi’s personal life is discovered, it isn’t clear whether Randi is still the deceiver – or the deceived.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 13230

And the ted talk that's touched on at the start :

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi?language=en

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

My God, when did he start looking that old?

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 10904

zaphod79 wrote:

AN HONEST LIAR - Truth and Deception in the Life of James The Amazing Randi

Just watched the whole thing on YouTube as I've been interested in the man himself for a long time.

Fantastic and touching film - thanks the heads-up zaphod, an hour and a half very well spent. (I already knew a lot of it, especially the Popof stuff, but getting the whole story of Randi was fascinating.)

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

And now I have seen it. Not knowing anything about Randi's personal life, I certainly didn't see the twists coming towards the end.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 13230

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:15

1:40 for the money shot.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14616

Go Birdman!

I can do a 180 at 42!

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

That is one painful looking sport. What does 'at 48' mean?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14616

He's 48 years of age.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14616

Quite a lot of the older vert skaters seem to be managing fairly long careers at the top of their game, although they at least wear pads and have the experience to handle most situations such that they manage to slide out when they get it wrong. Most street skaters really have to wind it down when get past their mid thirties as mistakes can often be a bit less forgiving.

He's still doing bloody well, mind. I know myself that although I'm probably fitter than I ever was as a youngster and can run further and faster when I slam skating now it feels so much worse than it used to and I always feel it the next day. And he's six years older than me.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

markg wrote:

He's 48 years of age.

Whoa, dude.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2016 23:09

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Ha! That beggars belief.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Don't know why the string quartet are there, I can't here them in the mix at all.

devilman · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2016 20:58

The 2016 song
(rather sweary)

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 1963

Grim... wrote:

(Pretty Fly (for a White Guy))

Not to diss this, because it's great, but this sort of thing must be made easier by getyarn. And anything similar. Is there anything similar? Chopping up films into bits of dialogue. I stumbled across it by accident, trying to check whether I heard what I thought I heard in a film:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/489de03a-c ... 41c0a6bc6b?

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

There's a whole channel full of this madness.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:16

I fucking love this

Give it time.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11687

A man figures out his friend is Groundhog Daying.

Enjoyed this a lot.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2017 15:31

That is really good.

Mee-bop!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 33710

"Have you Andi MacDowell'ed me?"

devilman · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2017 18:21

I know it's just Fred Dibnah climbing up a ladder, and you know he's going to be just fine, but the video still puts me on edge, particularly as he climbs the overhangs.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2017 19:34

As I've probably mentioned, I've had a few beers with him. He likes to talk, but most of what he has to say is interesting.

His wife is a bitch, though