I don't know if you know who Marshall Sylver is. He is a professional hupnostist. He has done is job for big companies to make their employees work better. He does it to individuals to make them more agressive to become rich. He has been in trouble in this town before for promising big financial rewards or your money back, then failing to refund the moneys. He has been all over the talk show circuit and several times on David Letterman.

Well, now he is trying to land a job at Harrah's for a hypnostist show in the Rida Rudner theater. I honestly can't explain why I have been to 8 hypnostising shows here in the lat 8 months, other than very cheap or free tickets.

Like ghosts and UFOs, I'm not a beliver in the production show version of hypnostists. Nor do I think that these three subjects are all completely fake. But I admit I am open on these subjects for someone to show me something to try to convince me. I would like to think there is something to ghosts and UFOs, though I am not convinced. I think there is something to hypnostising people, although I'm thinking the production shows are fake.

As I said, I have seen entirely too many of these shows lately. I pretty much know what to expect to get the subjects in a trance. After that, the shows vary on how the victims are treated. It might be comedy, it might be adult humor, it might be reactions to words, or there might be a central theme that they all react to.

On the Marshall Sylber show, everyone fell into a deep trance and stayed there. Most of the other shows have a few groggy people that don't quite participate. If this stuff is fake, his participants were way too polished and "acted" too much. If this stuff is real, Marshall is really, really good. I'm guessing fake.

On an entertainment level, this show was middle of the road. It wasn't boring, it wasn't loaded with adult humor, it wasn't loaded with humor, but all of his stunts worked.

In a town with entirely too many of these type of shows, all I can say is that I am amazed that another one is trying to squeese in. If this guy does make it Harrahs, I think it will be because his motivational tapes and David Letterman publicity got him in the door. The show just isn't that fun. I saw him for free and wonder if I got my moneys worth or if it wasted my time.