Marc Salem:
I've always
been sensitive
to what's on
the nzinds of
others. I guess
I just have an
intuitive gift."

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BILL:CARROLL

Special to theJewish News

eginning next week, Detroit
audiences will be forced to
use their minds.
Then Marc Salem will
appear to read right through them.
Salem, a World-renowned "mind
reader" who has been entertaining and
baffling audiences for almost 30 years
with Mind Games, will bring his one-
man show to downtown Detroit's
Century Theatre Feb. 14-July 29.
Salem plays with the audience's
minds, using:: mathematical puzzles,
intuition and nonverbal signals.
explore the potentialS -and powers
of the human mind and entertain peo-
ple with their own thoughts," Salem
said of his interactive show.
Most communication is nonverbal,"
he said. - Words don't always matter.
It's how.you use them that matters,
and I've studied thisextensivelv."
During an intervieW with S;lern by
phone at his New York home, -he knew
most of the questions before they were
asked, even though he said he's it at
his best on the phone.
Use that little pad of paper on the
right side of your.desk," he correctly
deduced, -and draw a picture of some-
thing outside."
After a car with big tires was drawn,
Salem said, 1 see a lot of round
shapes, and it moves mechanically."
Then he asked the interviewer to
pick between 1 and 10. - You're in the
upper half," he said, - 7 or V
Close. The number was 9.
Salem's fascination with the mind
began around the age of 10 in his
native Philadelphia. He said he could
tell what was inside the wrapped gifts
his parents gave him for Chanukah.
And if the family was going on a -sur-
prise" trip, he said, he knew where they
were headed before the car left
the house.
"Even in childhood, I
loved the mind," he
recalled. - I read everyone
and everything around
me. kV always been sen-
sitive to what's on the

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DETROITERS MAY NOT BE ABLE

TO KEEP THEIR THOUGHTS

TO THEMSELVES WHEN
PSYCHOLOGIST/ENTERTAINER

MARC SALEM COMES TO TOWN.

MIND GAMES

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