![]() The Great Tomsoni, but we just call him “Great.” Sometimes “Johnson!” or just “You asshole!” She yelled, “Mandrake!” when seas were rough. “Johnson” to Hayes, the perfect partner in crime I’m just going to say it: the best in the world, the greatest of all time Someone asked, “How’d you do?” He answered, “45 minutes!”Īpparently, he had more friends than all of us. Luckiest guy ever: If he dropped a coin it’d land in his pants cuff. This may be the closest thing to real mind reading that you will ever see. Can you see the snow white egg in the dark interior? I tease and tantalize the corners because that’s what they all do This trick’s so old, it’s older than God. It happened right where you’re standing, friend! Right where you’re standing! Could have been a drunk janitor that doubles as a hitman. Minority rights activist-all when it was illegal Then there was that recent near-death experience-visitors from the dead, psychedelic cruising altitude, 35,000 feet. Held at gunpoint by gangster Tommy Wonder, not to be confused with our Tommy Wonder.Įscaped Singapore’s death penalty by using sleight of hand to hide the goods. (No matter how bad showbiz gets, it’ll never be as bad as this day!) The time he nearly drowned in waste as a Chicago sewage worker. The time the tornado picked up his car and, like Dorothy to Oz, transferred him from one side of the highway to the other he just kept on driving. ![]() There was the time that he took a radio DJ’s advice and jumped into the back seat during a head-on collision, dodging the steering column that would have impaled him. On the road with the band, the driver Jerry Murad fell asleep at the wheel, and John woke up with his face through the windshield. Thanks to John, we were transformed from strangers into brothers.ĭreamer of Mississippi riverboats, Derringer hats, and frock coatsĬantu and the serape loaded with livestock I had the pleasure of knowing and spending some time with him when I was living in Las Vegas, and I certainly have my stories to share, but the following words, by people who knew him far better than I, are a perfect tribute.īy Jared Kopf, Alpen Nacar, and Paul VigilĮven though he wasn’t our real father, he told the three of us we were his sons. Sure, more people may have seen Penn & Teller or David Copperfield or Criss Angel or Lance Burton, but all of them acknowledged Johnny Thompson as a true master of the field. On March 9, 2019, the art of magic lost a legend. ![]()
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