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Use Y our Illusion In March���s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Steve Carell goes on a mission to reclaim Las Vegas from a guerrilla street magician. Because that���s the kind of guy he is���nice. Just don���t call him that without ducking for cover. By Deborah Baer Photography by Robert Ascroft I n Las Vegas, you can tell a lot about a man by his game of choice. The mysterious loner often gravitates to the poker room. Blackjack draws the big spender with the mountainous chip stack, while Rat Pack wannabes belly up to the craps table looking for lucky dice or a lucky dame. So it takes a brave man, a confident man such as Steve Carell, to earnestly claim as his game the arguably uncool roulette. ���It allows me to move at a much more leisurely pace,��� he says. ���You have to wait for the ball to go around and around. I find it comforting that it���s not as fast-paced as many of the games are. I sat down to play poker once and was done in about seven minutes. It was ugly.��� He pauses. ���I have absolutely no game.��� He may not have game, but he certainly had the clout to assemble an allstar comedic cast ( Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Alan Arkin) to lampoon the high-stakes world of Strip magicians in the new movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone���right in their own backyard. Carell even got the blessing of legendary illusionist (and 20-year Strip headliner) David Copperfield, who served as a consultant on the film and makes a hilarious cameo. ���They were poking fun at my world, but we have a sense of humor about ourselves,��� Copperfield says. ���It was a great experience and so much fun.��� Carell���s washed-up Wonderstone finds that to save Vegas from Carrey���s David Blaine���inspired illusionist, he must mend fences with longtime stage partner Anton Marvelton (Buscemi) and rediscover what made him love magic in the first place. The leading man insists, however, that they aren���t sending up the subculture. ���It���s not a parody,��� Carell says. ���So much of it is based in reality. You don���t have to push it too hard.��� During the 92 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 092-095_V_Feat_Steve_Carell_Spring13.indd 92 2/11/13 1:19 PM