The Bio-Vlog

“At my gaming table are Casino dealer Marty Goldstein, TV show creator Paul Wilson, cardman Allan Ackerman and power-lifter and cardman Jason England. Gents, I’d like to hear your history with Richard.” “Jon,” Goldstein says, “I met Turner in the ‘70’s, when I was working…

My goal is to continue upping the ante, making my show more and more difficult by creating and accomplishing sleights and gambling controls that others say are too ridiculous to even contemplate.  I have been fanatically working on what I think will be the most…

You’re probably wondering how a blind guy can deal a pat-hand with pinpoint accuracy. I won’t tell you everything, professional secrets you know, but some of it has to do with my eidetic memory and how part of my visual networks are resonating with my…

to go. However, I realize making it big in la-la-land would be like dropping a glass of water in the ocean, I would be a minnow surrounded by whales. I figure it would be better to be a big fish in a small pond rather…

So, after contemplating Vernon’s points about exposing gambling artifice rather than tricks is acceptable, I conclude that demonstrating cheating techniques will definitely have an emotional connection and will appeal to all demographics. “Why not?”  Swindlers and cheaters fascinate most people with tantalizing thoughts of larceny,…

I’m sitting with the Professor. I want to ask him a question that is considered taboo within the magic fraternity. “Professor,” I ask cautiously, “rather than faking a second or center deal using some form of a magic trick, what do you think about performing…

J. C. Wagner reads aloud to me a review in Genii Magazine titled, “The Vernon Touch.” “Recently at The Magic Castle I had the pleasure of watching Richard Turner do some superlative coin manipulations.  He does the coin roll with five different size coins at…

I immediately shift the audience’s attention to five coins that I hold in my right hand. “Here,” I say, “I have five shiny silver half-dollars. Now watch closely.”  I execute a secret move and I am now rolling one coin across my left knuckles, and…

The big night has finally arrived, and I’m standing apprehensively behind the curtain separating me from the audience seated in the Magic Castle’s Close-Up Gallery.  The host pokes his head in and asks, “Richard, are you ready?” “I think so,” I say, as I wipe…

I’m sitting in one of the new theater seats, focused on practicing when Steve Terrell asks, “Rick, can we talk?”  We move to the conference area of our newly renovated Lamb’s Players Theater.  “Rick,” Steve says, “You are now good enough to be a professional…