Lance Burton

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal comes this story of Lance Burton and his 'classic' style...

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The tuxedo looks just right on him now, after wearing one since childhood. "I'm one of the old guys now," says 46-year-old magician Lance Burton.

"He always, even as a kid, was pretty set in his ways," says Mac King, a Harrah's Las Vegas comedy-magician and Burton's friend since they were teens in Louisville, Ky.

It often has been told that Burton first decided to become a magician at age 5, when he attended a party at the Frito-Lay plant where his mom worked and a magician pulled a coin from behind his ear.

"He never changed his mind since he was 5 years old," his mother, Hilma, confirms. "Most kids, one week they want to do something, another week they want to do something else. But he never changed his mind."

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