The big draw at a special screening on Tuesday night in Hollywood wasn’t a leading man or hot new starlet, but an 86-year-old retired magician. A Q&A followed the screening with filmmaker Weinstein, ...

Some of my earliest TV memories are of magician James “The Amazing” Randi on shows like That’s Incredible and In Search Of, where he explained how easy it was to fool the eye with “magical thinking.” ...

“The public really doesn’t listen when they’re being told straightforward facts,” says the Amazing Randi. The magician, escape artist, and tiny lion of principled skepticism, now north of 80, leans ...

James “The Amazing” Randi -- escape artist, magician, skeptic, debunker of psychics and faith healers and, above all, a showman -- is the perfect subject for a documentary. An admitted cheat and ...

In the 1970’s, the psychic Uri Geller was a fixture on the TV chat shows. He was famous for bending spoons with nothing more, he said, than the power of his mind. But when Geller appeared on “The ...

We live in the age of alternative facts, a euphemism for falsehoods. The same distinction could be applied to the honest fakery work of James "The Amazing" Randi, whose life and mission are profiled ...

James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation ...

James “the Amazing” Randi is an icon of skepticism. The man has done more — over a span of several decades — to further the cause of critical thinking and to expose flimflammery of all sorts than ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — James Randi has escaped from a locked coffin submerged in the sea, and from a straitjacket dangling over Niagara Falls. If you chose a word from a 200-page book, he could guess ...

UPDATE: I just found out this segment has been postponed. I’ll post a new schedule when I find out more. I just heard that James “The Amazing” Randi will be on CNN’s Anderson Cooper tonight again, ...