Sheraton's travel pix
I don't have to tell you to read between the lines...
Click on any of the pictures to enlarge. Use your browser's back button to get back to here. Casting shots & serious info are on the corporate Sheraton site. |
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Las Vegas
...was and still is a town with tremendous potential for inventive minds.
Just don't try to expect a peaceful time there. Nor should you sign exclusive contracts with any agent...or sleep with one! It could be bad for your teeth! |
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Reno
Did you know, that you were asked to call Boxcar Willie's wife "Mrs. Boxcar"? I burst out laughing when I was introduced to her. Mr. Boxcar and his well fed band did NOT find that amusing. Our welcome dinner at the NUGGET was Sushi. Great fun to watch a 20 piece country band dig into a buffet with chop sticks. Boxcar passed away just recently. He has all my respect. |
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Berlin
Shortly after having these brochures done I went on a diet and stopped performing live shows.
20 cases of useless paper and a suitcase of over sized costumes was the prize for mental peace... |
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Chile
This TV show made me decide to get into TV work myself because I thought someone should start telling cameramen, that the zoom is mainly there for focusing and reframing while live editing is not 20 cuts a minute just because you have 2 pairs of hands... |
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Las Vegas
This Vegas show was actually called: Hell on Heels. It was exactly that. Check out the muscles on Frenchie (right). Not worth getting into an argument with her. Neither with Diana (blond). Her boyfriend was a bull fighter while the lovely brunette on the left was married to a boxer. Dangerous bunch! |
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Sparks, NV
I had a tough time getting the photographer to shoot exactly at the point when my name showed up on the blinking marquee so we froze our toes off for about 2 hours for this picture. Still I prefer this photo than one stating: All you can eat steak and lobster $1.99... |
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Monte-Carlo
This postcard sure got me in trouble. I had it made to promote my coming tour right after a gig at Cabaret Casino Monte Carlo and mailed it to about a thousand people as well as agents (in that order...). Turns out, that the Casino wanted 10% commission on the whole tour because they felt I made the card look like they organized it all.
Monte-Carlo was the wildest gig ever. Performing and partying could not get better ever. |
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Las Vegas
Siegfried and Roy were extremely charming hosts at their little backstage party. Not everybody has a full grown luxury mansion for their backstage area...They deserve every bit of respect available!
Very inspiring! |
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Tokyo, Japan
Ton Onosaka and Mama flew me to Japan to star in what looks like an exploitation show. Sort of a minstral for long nose Sheraton.
Ton picked me up at the airport and took me straight for Sushi and Beer which was to be the beginning of a culinary experience beyond compare for the next weeks.
Amongst all sorts of funky food I was served raw horse meat, still warm! Of course they only told me afterwards...Thank goodness they drink a lot of scotch in Japan... |
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Osaka, Japan
Fukai and Kimika took me there.
I had 10 prototypes INFERNO with me when Fukai called an improvised auction for 500 magicians at a convention. Nobody bid! Instead they stormed the stage and it took 3 Sumo wrestlers to free me from fire-crazed Japanese who were waving Yen in my face to get the last INFERNO.
Mr. Yamamoto of UGM became my Japanese distributor after a night out with me and Rich Bloch when I set the bar bill on fire... |
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Hollywood
X-mas 1994. The photostudio was somewhere on 3rd in Hollywood. It was a pianist's living room that ingeniously turned into a studio as soon as clients turned up. Ray Bourgignon (Santa) had a special brush just to comb his beard. Cool guy! |
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The Hell on Heels gang. Diana (white blouse) would take me out a lot in Vegas...Her boyfriend was a Mexican Bull-Fighter. He never found out.... She would turn up at the hotel in leather catsuits and mindbogglingly high stilettos so people not only stared at her appetizing looks but also at the blond midget next to her... |
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Madrid
Scala Madrid was 4 months of intensive living (to put it mildly). The huge production show opened with a full size train entering the stage, making 2 spinning circles and slamming the doors open with me stumbling out. People actually asked me if this train was my own prop...
Next to me and my obscenely distorted face you see Nadine Shimmin, a gifted US ice skater who performed on the hydraulic skating rink at the Scala. She now lives with her husband Mario and their son Christopher in Barcelona. Wanna know what my love looks like now? Here! |
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Portugal
Amos Levkovitch, Juliana Chen, John Carney, Michael Weber, Kate Mededveda and her fascinating Russian teacher.
Check out the furniture and just about everything else... We did the Luis de Matos TV show there which definitely sported more esthetic decor than the plastic heaven on the photo. |
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Monte-Carlo
Flashman's Pub was mainly financed by me... Here you see Russians, Swiss, Belgians, Israeli and South Africans united in the 2 main common interests: Beer and I guess you figgured out the second one...
Oleg Izossimov (left) is a world champion acrobat and in desperate need of driving lessons.
Amra Faye-Wright (on the right, of course) was the singer of the show and very talented...so was Sophia (blue) but she couldn't sing...and Sharon and... |
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Vegas/Switzerland
My European friends love this photo of me and the all-American "Dobritch twins".
We just have different teeth in Switzerland...
....or we don't buy new ones that quickly... |
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...we try to make do with what's around. |
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Germany
Friedrichsbau-Variété in Stuttgart, Germany. Me and a bunch of really strange people from the show. A small newspaper with an even smaller journalist gave me a hard time. I guess, the tremendously educated intellect of south German reporters (which is just as famous as their sense of humour) must have gotten in the way...
If you ever meet a guy called Kai Holloch smile at him and offer him another drink... |
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Las Vegas
World Champion Netcheporenko and Alex Podgornyi are stacking up INFERNO for a long trip back to Moscow. |
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England
Deborah Elliott
In my early twens me and this talented UK tap dancer had a quick change tap act and toured Europe. I haven't heard from her ever since.
Was it 'cause I can't hold a note? |
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Peter Pit
Not only was he a fantastic teacher and knowledgable magician but also the funniest man I know. His earthshaking sarkasm (which unfortunately was often misunderstood) could make your laughter turn into tears of agony within the same sentence. A master of control. I learned a lot from him and will miss him forever. |
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Scotchtape
My favorite act until some German journalist had an ugly night at the typewriter after he couldn't get laid at the opening night party. Maybe it would be a good idea not to serve alcohol to press members... |
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Action shots from the Scotchtape act. |
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Chile TV
It looked to me as if the whole audience was one big family except for that woman in the red coat. So I went straight for her... |
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Juliana Chen
World Champion magician and obviously in heat...
We worked quite a few shows together so I eventually started to understand her "English"... |
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Christina
Juliana Chen's dog! Seriously! |
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Facelift anyone?
I just don't like competing blondes!
Find out about this guy here. |
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Las Vegas
My first US office was actually a bedroom from where we operated INFERNO USA. Now the two to my side are married and had to move the office elsewhere... |
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Hungry?
I brought the Chili Dog to Switzerland and never ever earned as much money ever again but could not deal with the fact that an uninspiring sausage would be the thing to make me rich. So I sold our 4 carts and haven't eaten a weenie ever since! |
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Paris
Deborah Elliott and Sheraton photographed by a weird photographer who was inseparable from his even weirder cigarette (!). The day before the shoot Debs tried to highlight my hair. It was nearly white. However since then I am blond...Not the only present Debs left in my life... |
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Captain Green
Freaky comedy act I wrote. I guess you could call him the naturally evolved Sheraton act. I dared to utilize styles and paces that I had always wanted to use for my acts but were never courageous enough to actually perform. Directing Captain Green made me relive my performer years and realize, that I prefer less exposure and more creation.
Check it out! |
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Nov. 14, 1999 marked my 30th birthday and I started growing strange body parts...
Wild party at our movie theater. |
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| Where the heck are you? |
A lot of wild people I have worked with have simply disappeared. It's in the nature of this business.
Get in touch now and
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