I know there’s plenty reasons to dislike Uri Geller. The ‘spoon bending’. The ‘remote viewing’. The whole ‘power our minds’ hogwash. The relentless self-publicity and creative way with facts that just never ceases. The creepy persona. The list just goes on and on.
I’m not talking about the defending Jackson’s baby swinging actions, that’s a whole other rant others have got pretty much covered here. I mean the ‘best friend of Michael’ that he appears to have sold the entire UK media on. That’s the best pal Michael who was so moved at being asked to be Uri’s best man at his “wedding” (arranged for whose benefit I wonder?) that he turned up two hours late. Now Jackson can’t do anything without Uri popping up on British TV screens to assure us how he and Michael are soul-mates and how he knows what’s really going on in his head.
And every time it’s the same story. “Have you talked to Micheal about this” credulous reporter asks. “Er no, not yet” Uri admits. “But I do know… blah…blah… friend of a friend, unattributed insider fact… bodyguard I know spoke to his bodyguard… etc… etc…”
Just who are you fooling here Uri?? It seems to me that Jacko hung out with you a bit a year or so back. Since then you have been dropping his name hourly. But you never seem to have spoken to him recently. Does Jackson want a ‘close friend’ who is a blabber mouth and can’t wait to get on the TV every time there’s something to be discussed about his private life?
But, really, I don’t care just how close a ‘best friend’ you are. You’re just getting on my nerves. So stop it. Get off my television, stop trying to suck up reflected fame off this tarnished and fading star and vanish back to the pit of minor one-trick Z-rated celebs where you belong.
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When Michael Jackson was a small boy at school, he learned about Uri Geller from many of the school textbooks that have been written about him. ]/quote]
What textbooks? Where? What school in what part of what nation actually teaches anything about Uri?* Other than “How to Be a Fraud” classes?
The second site read like it was written for children. Stupid children.
*Funny. I just realized that U r i are the first three letters in the word Urine.
Actually… I remember reading a blurb about Uri in a textbook way back when he was first hitting the scene. I think it was a science book. There was a pic of him “focusing his will” upon an unsuspecting spoon.
Of course, it was explaing how such a thing was a lot of hogwash, but, still, he was in a textbook.
Well, at MY school, we had to take four full years of Gellerology. I remember junior year in particular, it was between English and Pre-Calc, and I had the desk right behind this cute redhead.
I always enjoy Geller’s description of meeting Jacko
“When he walked out of his bedroom, with his hair pulled back and his skin clean of make-up, my heart lurched. I had been unconsciously prepared for facial scars, even deformity, because of the constant drip-drip of lies and slanders. In fact, his face is strong and serene, and his skin is beautiful - shining, almost translucent. He glows with an aura of energy. His shirt was open, revealing a lithe chest. All the clever words I had rehearsed fell away: I said his name, he said mine and we embraced. I knew at this moment that I had found a lifelong friend.”
No, I don’t think this is the case, just that I suspect that they aren’t as big bosum-buddies as Uri would very much like you to believe.
Isn’t it interesting that he was all up for giving his verdict on Jacko’s latest blunder before he’d even spoken to him? If a good friend of yours was in trouble wouldn’t you make sure you got his side of the story before blabbing to the world? But not Uri, the lure of the TV appearance was just too strong to resist. Either that or he’s not that good a friend after all and the chances of talking to him anytime this year were a bit remote.
Even if they are like brothers, this still doesn’t excuse the continual name dropping and rent-a-jacko-quote wall-to-wall coverage we have to suffer from this self-publicist.
