[DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY screens Friday July 19th at 6:45 pm and Sunday July 21st at
1:30 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art Morley Lecture Hall.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
I
think I have the solution to the student-loans crisis that is
threatening to leave a number of underemployed college and university
graduates in endless debt the rest of their lives. It's simple really.
Just have all the liquor companies offer scholarships based on binge
drinking and champion-level alcoholism. Millions of students would
instantly qualify. Why, upper education in Ohio in particular would come
practically free.
That's
one of my more clever satirical propositions, but what's it have to do
with DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY? Oh,
nothing. It's just that Molly Bernstein's documentary is one of the best
things I've seen lately. In case this review is read by more people
than usual I want them to appreciate my rapier wit.
