Ricky Jay is one of the world's foremost sleight-of-hand artists, but he's also an author and historian, an actor and film consultant, and a collector of some of the world's most unusual ephemera ...

Ricky Jay died on Saturday in his home in LA. New Yorker writer Mark Singer once called him “the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive.” In addition to being a magician, Jay acted in David Mamet’s ...