{"id":30543,"date":"2022-09-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30543"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:38:38","slug":"an-honest-liar-2014-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30543","title":{"rendered":"“An Honest Liar”\u00a0(2014) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Honest Liar<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2014)<\/p>\n

Directors:\u00a0 Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by: \u00a0Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom, Greg O’Toole<\/strong>
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Starring: James Randi, Jos\u00e9 Alvarez, Penn Jillette, Teller, Adam Savage, Alice Cooper, Bill Nye, Uri Geller <\/strong>\u00a0and Peter Popoff<\/strong>
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Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n

The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers…<\/p>\n

James Randi began his career as a carnival magician and escape artist.\u00a0 His goal was to learn every trick performed by Harry Houdini and improve on them where he could.\u00a0 In the early 1970s, as “The Amazing Randi<\/em>” was winding down his escape artist act, his career took an interesting path that led to even greater fame.\u00a0 Randi turned his sights on con artists such as faith healers, psychics, and folks claiming supernatural powers.\u00a0 Randi would recreate their “miracles” and then explain how he did them!<\/p>\n

Two of his most famous run-ons occurred with Uri Geller and Peter Popoff.\u00a0 Geller was making the rounds on tv shows, moving objects and bending spoons with just his mind.\u00a0 Geller was scheduled be a guest on The Johnny Carson Show<\/em>.\u00a0 Carson’s staff reached out to Randi who gave specific instructions on how to insure that Geller couldn’t cheat.\u00a0 When Geller appeared on the Carson<\/em> show he was unable to perform any of his “supernatural” tricks.\u00a0 This developed into a long-running feud between Randi and Geller.<\/p>\n

Peter Popoff was a faith healer who claimed God spoke to him and used Popoff as a conductor of miracles.\u00a0 Randi had video tape of Popoff performing his miracles.\u00a0 It turned out Popoff was wearing an earpiece and his wife was reading information collected from prayer cards of those in attendance. Randi had the audio to prove it! Does it get any lower?<\/p>\n

James Randi led an amazing life and these are just two highlights from his long career.\u00a0 An Honest Liar<\/em> takes us from his early to his last days.\u00a0 Along the way Randi met the love of his life and there’s even a twist to that.<\/p>\n

I was a fan of The Amazing Randi<\/em> since I first learned of him in the 1970s.\u00a0 I loved seeing his appearances and his outlook on life.\u00a0 Randi wouldn’t rule anything out, but remained skeptical.\u00a0 That seems like a pretty good way to approach things.<\/p>\n

An Honest Liar <\/strong><\/em>earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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