Her guide is a con man played by Joe Mantegna. They kicked off the evening with a clip from the film "House Of Games." Lindsay Crouse plays a psychologist who's being introduced to the underworld of con men. Let's start with an onstage conversation recorded in 1998 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, at an event co-sponsored by FRESH AIR and City Arts & Lectures of San Francisco. Terry Gross interviewed Ricky Jay a number of times over the years. He also played strange and sinister characters on screen - a con man in David Mamet's film "House Of Games," the camera operator who shoots the porno films in "Boogie Nights" and a card sharp on HBO's "Deadwood." He made cards disappear and reappear and move to different places in ways that are just impossible. When Jay worked with a deck of cards, it's as though he lived in a different dimension than we do, a place where the laws of physics have been altered. This week, Sotheby's auctioned off part of his 10,000-item collection. During his life, he collected rare books, pamphlets, posters, handbills, broadsides, objects and apparatus documenting the histories of magic, circuses and eccentric characters. He also was a scholar of con games and of the human oddities and exotic performers who worked the freak shows and traveling carnivals. On today's show, we're going to listen back to our interviews with master magician Ricky Jay, who died in 2018 and was known in his time as the greatest living sleight-of-hand artist.
I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, sitting in for Terry Gross.
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