A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent to those of Kurt Cobain.
Ricky Jay's character describes a magician's trick in which the illusionist gets a member of the audience to shoot at them and they amaze the audience by catching the bullet and goes on to explain how the illusionist died this way. The year after Jay was in The Prestige in which this is Christian Bale's character's signature move. He is also injured in this trick but not killed.
Detective:
Then one day he thought the way to make money there are a lot of people who had exotic backgrounds in vaudeville. There was a Chinese magician named Ching Ling Foo who was doing really well. So Billy Robinson sort of disappeared and he resurfaced as...
One of the LDS missionaries that visits the house is wearing a light blue shirt. LDS missionaries are only permitted to wear non-decorative white shirts with dark pants/suits, and a conservative tie. The missionaries also carried no pamphlets, visual aids, appointment books, or their own complete sets of scriptures, which is highly unlikely for door-to-door proselytizing.
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