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ALLAN ZOLA KRONZEK
THE MAGICIAN'S TALE

By Sheridan Sansegundo
East Hampton Star Interview

12345In the first decade of the new century, we don't raise an eyebrow at cinematic special effects that would have stunned and terrified our grandparents. It's all done with computers, we say with a shrug, blue screens, body-imaging, miniaturization....
12345But sit us down in front of a master sleight-of-hand artist and we are children again, baffled, astonished, and delighted. One of Allan Zola Kronzek's earliest memories is of seeing a magician transfer milk in a bottle to a glass via a thin red ribbon.
12345"It was amazing, and I was completely fascinated by magic from then on," he said. If it was the beauty of sleight