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From: Mike Brown
Date: Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:04am
Subject: RE: [Derren Brown] That Orson Wells Painting Thing
> Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that a garbled mispronounciation
> of "Think of someone else" would inspire any person to come up with
> the name "Orson Wells???"
Yes, it's one of the triggers -- I take it just as seriously as your claim
that throwing a paper ball 3 times inspires "The Third Man".
> Let's look at the ENTIRE event for a moment:
If only we could : There's probably even more that's gone on "off camera"
to quietly influence :)
> But planted in Steve's mind are at LEAST three seeds:
> (Tellingly, when Steve gives his astonished reaction at the end of
the event, he says he originally thought of Woody Allen,
> After all, how many other celebrities have names that start with OR?
Some good suggestions there, that I haven't seen mentioned before -- good
thinking! Did you pick up on his interruption? What did he say to Derren?
> I am sure there are mountains of other minor suggestions that steered
> Steve's thinking, so PLEASE stop trying to tell everyone that the
> trick hinges on the words "Someone else"!!!!!
I didn't say it hinged on that, just that the phrase *is* in there. There
have been postings claiming "he doesn't even say 'Or Someone Else' at any
point". That's all.
Mike.
