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Acknowledgments & Thanks

To my Family, especially my Mother and Father, and toLaurence, Mandy, Zara and Nikki Posener.

And to my dear friends and colleagues:

Maurice AmdurJoel BauerBaron BenhamBeverly CahmeDick ClarkBob and Beverly CohenDave CohenEleda CohenEric CotsenRob & Ellen DeutschmanDr. Alex EskanderJonathan FischPaul FreedmanCate FrostSophie GayotGeoff GoldsteinJack KellyAnthony LefortKevin MohajerTony NicholsonJonathan Novak

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Stuart PaulTony and Jeanne PritzkerStanley SelwynTobey & Jonathan VictorBarry Wright

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Contents1. I Was Born.2. Schooldays Were Not So Happy.3. Tommy Cooper.4. Magic Hands.5. Hair Raising Adventures in Israel.6. Howard of Arabia.7. I’ve Always Been Curious.8. All at Sea.9. New York, New York.10. Annabel’s of London.11. Opening Night at Annabel’s.12. The Hostest With The Mostest.13. My First Arabian Night.14. Another Arabian Night.15. A Television Celebrity.16. A Corporate Man.17. Pulling a Corporate Rabbit From The Hat.18. An Explosive Success.19. I Become A Lord.20. The Right/Wrong Side of the Law21. The Paranormal.

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22. The Magic of Hollywood.23. Hollywood or Bust.24. My Family at The Four Seasons.25. The Kid Stays in the Picture.26. I Get Stuck Up.27. My Hollywood Roller Coaster Ride.28. After Hollywood.29. Magic On The Orient Express.30. Fake Paranormal & $50,000.31. Celebrities UK.32. Celebrities USA.33. Ozzy Osbourne Meets Howard the Duck34. A Magician’s Nightmare.35. Howard Makes His Millions Disappear.36. Magical Mates37. Interesting Facts About Playing Cards.38. Things Howard Would Like to Know39. The Magic of Wisdom.

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Written by Best Selling Author Jake Anthony(C) 2009.

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1I Was BornThe first words in the classic novel ‘David Copperfield’,by Charles Dickens: “I was born.”

That’s not David Copperfield the magician. I’m theother international magician: Lord Howard Posener.

Age three months.Sitting with my older brother, Laurence.

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I was born in post war England, in London. As in thenovel David Copperfield, the attitudes of the ruling classesand the general population, were still quite Dickensian.The buildings too, many of which were built in theGeorgian and Victorian eras. That is, those which hadnot been bombed by the Nazi regime during the precedingfive years of World War Two.

My parents met at the age of 16. Mum worked as aseamstress in a dress factory owned by our father’s aunt.

Mum and Dadin one of those funny seaside resort photos.

They always had a sense of humour.

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31Celebrities UKI have been privileged to have worked with or for, many,many celebrities from Britain. None of us is perfect, butI cannot think of one who was anything other thancourteous, professional and fun.

Here are just a few of the many celebrities fromshowbusiness, the media, politics and other areas ofpublic life who I have met up with or been introduced toin Britain. I hope I brought a few moments of fun totheir hectic lives. For me, meeting them all has been amagical experience.

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Sarah Ferguson, popularly known as Fergie,became known as Sarah, Duchess of Cornwall

after her divorce from Prince Andrew.

Fergie was a regular at Annabel’s and invited me toperform my magic at her home and at charity events

on many occasions.

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Baroness Margaret Thatcher, formerPrime Minister of Great Britain.

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We were introduced at the Beverly Hills Hotel andhad a hearty discussion about her sleeping habits.

Like her famous Prime Minister predecessorWinston Churchill, she only slept four hours a night

or just took cat naps.

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Meeting up with Ronnie Barker.As far as British comedy was concerned,Ronnie was a legend in his own lifetime.

Here we are during the filming of my UK TV show.Ronnie was much loved by the public and all thosewho knew and worked with him in showbusiness.

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With former featherweight boxing championBarry McGuigan MBE & TV presenter GabyRoslyn, guests on my British Television show.

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British actor and Director Lord Attenboroughattempts to work out how I did the trick

that left an amazed look on his face.

Lord Dickie as he is known within the business,supports many charities. It was at a UK charity

function that we met up.

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Not well known in the public eye, these twodistinguished gentlemen and their spouses

are high up on the list of the wealthiest peoplein Great Britain.

I was often invited to entertain attheir private parties. When I asked if they had any

money to do my first trick, not one of them had any.I found it amusing that they had absolutely no cash.

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32Celebrities USADue to living and working in the USA for a couple ofdecades, the number of celebrities I have worked for,entertained or met up with from all areas of public lifebut particularly from Hollywood and the showbusinessworld, would have been an autograph hunter’s wildestdream. For me, meeting them all has been a magicalexperience, and it continues.

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Two cockneys together in Hollywood.Me and Sir Michael Caine,

one of Britain’s greatest actors.

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Mel Gibson at a party where I did some magic.As his expression confirms, he is still wondering

how I did the trick!

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With Danny Glover, Mel’s on-screen partner in the‘Lethal Weapon’ series of movies.

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At a Hollywood party with Scottish comedian andactor, Billy Connolly. His companion for the night

was Hollywood actress Rene Russo.

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With Elizabeth Hurley at another party.You can meet as many Brits at Hollywood functions

as you can Americans.

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Sarah Jessica Parker, star of ‘Sex & the City’, tellsme where I can get some Sex in the City.

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With Antonio Banderos and Melanie Griffith.

I manage to secretly remove Melanie’s watch.

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Ben Stiller and I meet up at a charity function inBeverly Hills.

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Steve Martin seems unsure whetherhe’ll get back the $100 bill I turned into $1.

Incidentally, in his early days Steve did a greatact as a comedy magician.

He was known as ‘The Great Flydini’.

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Showing President Gerald Ford and his wife Bettyhow to balance the budget by changing blank pieces

of paper into hundred dollar bills.

The President offered me a position as Chairman ofthe Board of the Federal Reserve. I was not an

American citizen so was obliged to decline!

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Hugh Hefner and I show each other a trick or two.

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Showing John Travolta how to be a card sharpat a party for Dustin Hoffman.

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I trick Oscar winning actor/director Kevin Costnerat a movie premiere.

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Leonardo DeCaprio is a magic fanatic and as aresult we got on like a house on fire. We met at a

charity function.

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With Matt Damon at a party after the‘Golden Globes’.

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I don’t know what Angelina sees in Brad!

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I don’t know what Brad sees in Angelina!

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I met Jay Leno at the Los Angeles Car Showwhere I was doing my magic act.

Jay is an avid car collector.

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With Dick Van Dyke.Dick is an accomplished magician in his own right.

He did a few tricks that really impressed me.

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Samuel Jackson and myself at a charity event.

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Sports star Magic Johnsonafter my show at Newport Beach

We have both had a bit of magic in our lives.

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At a Hollywood party Sylvester Stallone showed mesome of his boxing moves from Rocky and I showed

him how to change a piece of paper intoa hundred dollar bill.

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With Michael Clarke Duncan,Oscar nominated actor in ‘The Green Mile’.

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With actor Jeff Goldblum at a charity event.

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Dustin Hoffman tells me that as a magician,it is about time I ‘graduated’.

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With actor James Woods at a private party.

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At a movie premiere with John Voight.

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At a movie premiere with two time Oscar winningactor Tom Hanks.

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Steven Spielberg with business partner David Geffen.Steven works magic with most of his movies

and we swapped secrets.

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With veteran actor Robert Stack.I thought he would be rather ‘Untouchable’

but he turned out to be a really nice guy.

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Chatting with legendary actor Charlton Heston.He told me how with Cecil B. DeMille’s help,

he had parted the Red Sea.I told him my ancestors used to live nearby.

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With my buddy, actor James Caan.James does a lot of charity work

and calls me to perform my magic at his events.James is a keen magician himself and is

extraordinarily proficient.

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With martial arts actor Jackie Chan at the premiereof one of his movies.

When I asked him to cut the cards, I did not expecthim to do so with a karate chop!

That’s another pack of cards I’ll have to buy!

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My friend the lovely and talented Sharon Stone.Sharon does lots of charity work and it is

always a pleasure working with her.

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Last but not least, there would be no celebritieswithout the celebrities to whom we all play to -

the audience.Here I am at London’s Hyde Park

before 100,000 of them.To audiences everywhere, a big “Thank You.”

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33Ozzy OsbourneMeets Howard the DuckDuring Ozzy Osbourne’s mega-successful reality TVseries in the USA, I was asked to perform a magic showat a family function in his luxurious Beverly Hills home.This was to be filmed for his TV show.

For weeks before my appearance, I puzzled as towhat illusion I could create for the king of heavy metalmusic that would also appeal to the wider audience forhis TV show.

It came to me just days before the show, and Idecided to be the absolute opposite of Ozzy’s personna.Originally I was going to go bats, vampires and BlackSabbath things, which is where Ozzie originally gainedhis worldwide following.

I went in complete reverse and used a familyfriendly approach by way of an antique magic prop, an

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