Stone's next public step, "People like to fail in public these days. But to quote Richard Kaufman, who offered this comment on the Genii Forum in the wake of Mr. In some dimension of time and space, a man might, in the face of such public humiliation, retire to private self-contemplation, lick his wounds, and perhaps venture forth gingerly to beg forgiveness from those whose life's work and art he had so publicly sullied. Stone was the only act in the close-up com-petition (and one of few ever) to be "given the hook" because his performance was so utterly execrable and below par. Most red-lighting at FISM takes place because a performer runs over the allotted time, but Mr. Reviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss (originally published in Genii July, 2012)Īt the 2006 FISM close-up magic competition in Stockholm, Alex Stone, an ambitious journalist and amateur magician (who had gained entry to the competition thanks to an endorsement by the President of the Society of American Magicians), was "red-lighted" meaning that he was stopped before completing his performance.
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