Paul Chosse

Paul Chosse
Born	Paul Stevens Chosse January 8, 1955 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	March 31, 2010 (age 55) Plymouth, Massachusetts

Paul Chosse (1955-2010) learned magic in 1963 from Art Lyle.

Biography

Chosse worked for Marvin Burger (Buma) for 7 years, starting in 1975, at the "The House of Magic" in San Francisco and was then a partner with Bill Whittington in the Golden Gate Magic in 1989.

Works

• Mumbo Jumbo, Marketed item, Sterling Magic Creations, 1979
• Cervon 1990: A Review by a Youthful Curmudgeon, Genii, Vol. 53 No. 11, May 1990, pp. 728, 748
• Diagonal Palm Shift, The New Tops, Vol. 33 No. 12, December 1993, pp. 16-20
• Diagonal Palm Shift, L. I. N. T.: Pocket Stuff for Close-Up Magicians by John Luka, 1997, pp. 14-19
• Triple Header, Weapons of Mass Destruction by Steven Youell, 2004, pp. 64-65
• Chosse's Triple, Channel One, Vol. 4 No. 13, 2004
• Chosse’s Crossing, Channel One, Vol. 4 No. 14, 2005
• Clearly Amazing Card to Impossible Location (with Anthony Miller), Marketed item, RFA Productions, 2005

Jack McMillen by Michael Landes (2011)

Chosse was a longtime friend and student of Jack McMillen's. When McMillen's big book was finally published as an ebook in 2011, written by Michael Landes, several items attributed to Chosse were included:

• On the Riffle/Glimpse, pp. 32-33
• On the Pairs Poker Stack, pp. 65-67
• On the J. M. Card Rise, pp. 74-75
• On Psychic Stop II, pp. 202-203
• Dollar/Dime Spellbound, pp. 218-219
• On the Diagonal Palm Shift, pp. 253-254
  • The Multiple Shift, p. 254
  • Cover on the Right, pp. 254-255
  • The Dribble, p. 255
  • The Spread, pp. 255-256

References

• http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=10&Number=218501&Searchpage=1&Main=31462&Words=chosse&topic=0&Search=true#Post218501
• http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wickedlocal-plymouth/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=141598279