Ricky Jay

...allows the actor to grow ever more comfortable as the combustible, relentless Lightman. (The photo above is of Abby Brammell, Ricky Jay and Roth in the Nov. 30 episode of "Lie to Me," the Las Vegas-set "Fold Equity." My previous "Lie to Me"...

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...perform three fucking songs. Three fucking songs! It's bad enough that a show that once upon a time exposed audiences to Frank Zappa, Ricky Jay and Loudon Wainwright III had one of the worst, most obnoxious groups in existence as its musical...

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...when we're introduced to a whole new group of three-star-tattooed bad guys led by pockmarked magician and sometime actor Ricky Jay - who, like so many bad people on this show, has a few non-sequitur words of wisdom to share before the...

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...time, so I wouldn't expect to see him hanging around the Royal George. But you never know. Either way, Jay's last Chicago show, "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants," was a memorable tour de force - and that was almost 15 years ago. So I'd...

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...thing and really concentrates everyone's focus and digital tends to be a little more… It's like that line in BOOGIE NIGHTS when Ricky Jay says, "It's video, we just keep shooting and shooting, it doesn't matter. You don't just stop. " That...

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...when characters started dropping strange pearls of wisdom and talking over each other. Mamet regulars Rebecca Pidgeon and Ricky Jay had lengthy guest arcs, too, playing tricky characters straight out of Heist. (Even Mad Men's Jon Hamm...

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...Jay sells some tickets, the show is likely to extend for at least the rest of that week. As with past Jay shows, David Mamet is credited as Jay's director. Although, in this case, he is listed as "Director of Prison Operations." "This...

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...interesting, Gregory, but I only do this for one person at a time." Mosher persisted: "Well, Ricky, I really was thinking of a card." Jay paused, frowned, stared at Mosher, and said, "This is a distinct change of procedure." A longer...

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...all the Truth but tell it slant - Too bright for our infirm Delight As Lightning to the Children eased I was talking to Ricky Jay about lying and deception. I had an example from the Bible, specifically about Jacob and his 12 sons.

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...was the best man at his wedding), and Michael Weber, a fellow magician who cofounded Deceptive Practices with Jay two decades ago. Both Jay and Weber describe the work of Deceptive Practices, somewhat obliquely, as problem solving; their...

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