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1/28/2008 - The next Uri Geller

I'm pretty much allergic to talent shows on TV. Whether that be America's Next Top Model, Idol, Dancing with the Stars, ... I can't watch it. Last Saturday, there was a new one (at least new to my country) I did manage to watch for the full two hours: The Next Uri Geller. I didn't see much that could really convince me Uri Geller's for real, but there was no clear evidence that he's a fraud either.

The show itself was spectacular enough. A total of ten contestants take part in the show. Last Saturday was the first round for five of them, with the next five on next Saturday.

The first contestant could easily have been a fraud. His act involved a dagger and five paper cilinders. A celebrity assistant had to choose one cilinder to put the dagger in, and the contestant would hit from above wearing a blindfold. In another country (I think it was Israel) this stunt went horribly wrong, and to add some suspense they showed that clip first. In Saturday's show the contestant was never in any danger. The assistant was right behind him, and moaned anxiously when he held his hand above the cilinder the dagger was in.

The second act involved a ouija board, which the contestant used to discover the first name of a dead person the celebrity assistant was thinking about. He could have read the name in the media, as the celebrity assistant is one of those people who would sleep with the editor just so the magazine won't ignore her for a day.

After that Uri Geller himself got some broken watches running. Not unimpressive, really. It's just that some of those watches looked really cheap, so I wonder why these people bothered to keep them. They couldn't have known that six months later Uri Geller would be in town. Still, he did get em running. He even said I could have participated from the comfort of my couch, by placing broken appliances on my TV. Even if I had any, I wouldn't have, because even if what he does work, there's no way I'm ever going to plug in a broken appliance.

The most impressive act involved a 'mentalist' who said he could transfer minds from one person to another. He subjected two celebrity assistants to all sorts of sensations and on each occasion it was the other who felt it. This was especially entertaining when he stung one of them in the shoulder with a thorn. The other assistant screamed in agony. If there was one thing that made me think, it was that, although the blindfolded archer who shot an apple was pretty good as well.

The final contestant was pretty spectacular as well, although he did show some signs of bad taste that I didn't approve of. He had five ropes with which he could hang himself from a beam. Four would kill him, and one would snap the moment he jumped of the pedestal. He let two assistants decide for him which one to use, and then said that they were responsible if he died. Well, you're the mentalist here thank you very much. You can't make someone else responsible for your stupidity. Everything turned out alright, of course.

My overall conclusion would be that the show didn't leave me unimpressed. It could all very much be true, except for the first one, of whom I still don't understand why Uri Geller granted him immunity from the phone vote. I have to say however, that it was especially the behavior of the celebrity assistants that stirred the most doubt in my mind. They should really have taken random people from the audience. Especially the ouija board guy. I actually think I'm going to watch the next installment.

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1/28/2008 - Uri Geller - a bibliography

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Uri Geller - a bibliography

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1/28/2008 - Uri Gellar

Posted by Fightingfemale

Wow, what an unusual talent to search for. I wouldn't think there'd be enough people. I didn't even think that many people have heard of him. I remember seeing him with Johnny Carson when I was very young. Whenever I come across a bent spoon in the kitchen, I always say that Uri Gellar must have been here. I didn't think that anybody would get it. I remember him bending spoons and stopping watches with his mind.

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1/29/2008 - Watches

Posted by dutchboy

He must have seen the error of his ways. Instead of stopping them, he now gets watches going. Still, he claims to get watches going that now repairman had any faith in anymore. That's a bit dodgy.

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