Known for:	Magnolia, Tomorrow Never Dies, Boogie Nights
Birthday:	1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Famous for his astounding ability to throw playing cards, and is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing a playing card a hundred and ninety feet at ninety miles an hour. From ten paces he can throw a playing card into the flesh of a watermelon. Serious scholar of unusual performances, and is the author of "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women", which chronicles the bizarre performers found in circuses, sideshows and other odd places (a copy of which appears prominently among Stanley's volumes on a table in Magnolia). He is also the author of "Extraordinary Exhibitions", "Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck", "Jay's Journal of Anomolies" and "Cards as Weapons." He is noted as one of magic's expert card technicians. He was the curator of the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts. Sleight-of-hand expert.

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