Uri Geller annoys David Blaine

[hgc]

De_Bunk posted this into another thread, but it deserves a thread all its own.

Article in The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003490203,00.html)

This guy is the ultimate at embarrassing himself.

But a security officer guarding New Yorker Blaine during the stunt said: “We’ve been told to treat Uri like any member of the public.

“He tells people he’s David’s mate. But Blaine’s complained he is a ‘hanger-on’ and wants nothing to do with him.”Yesterday Geller said: “How can anyone say I’ve had no involvement with David when I was talking to him the day he went in the box?

“Each time he saw me he’d raise his thumb and smile. I have called the hospital, but I did not try to speak to him because he is recuperating.”

[EdipisReks]

LOL. that's like saying "how can you say i had no involvement with tiger woods winning the masters when i have been sending him fanmail, and when i was standing in the gallery he gave a smile and a thumbs up that went in my general direction?".

[JamesM]

For some reason, I'm reminded of an episode of Seinfeld.

"STEP OFF, George!"

[LFTKBS]

Oh, Tony, don't . . .

[hgc]

I see that bunky posted this in Forum -- in this thread (http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29177). Shoulda known.

[Questioninggeller]

Here's an old article:


TITLE: When Uri met David
PUBLICATION: Telegraph (United Kingdom)
PUBLISHED: 12/2001

What happens when the king of psychic spoon-benders encounters the most extraordinary talent in modern magic? Uri Geller talks to David Blaine

If you know David Blaine from his monosyllabic, blank-eyed appearance on the GMTV couch, where his Trappist interview technique reduced Eamonn Holmes, the host, to frustrated splutters...
...
Even though I was there and David was there, it was Greville who performed magic. But you don't want to hear that. You want to know about David Blaine. I wanted to know about David, too, because the first time he called me I had never heard his name.

So out of 10,000 taxis in southern England, which one do you suppose brought David Blaine to my door? When I pointed this out to him I witnessed the first of his laughter attacks. He simply collapsed on to my gravel drive. The cabbie was surprisingly nice about it too, and the respray wasn't at all expensive.

David is an utterly sincere man. I think this explains his habit of clamming up in interviews: he desperately wants to tell the truth, and only the truth. It makes, as Eamonn Holmes will tell you, for some awkward exchanges. Like this:

Uri Geller: Do you ever meditate?
...
Uri Geller: Do you think that some day we'll be able to heal with the power of the mind?

David Blaine: I think now we're able to heal with the power of the mind. I know there's instances of a woman who was going to die of cancer, and all of a sudden she started watching this funny movie, over and over again, and she laughed so much that the tumours stopped growing and started to eat themselves away. The tumours actually vanished and she survived the disease.
...
Uri Geller: What role does the paranormal play in what you do, if at all?

David Blaine: I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.
...

Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/09/11/bablaine11.xml)

[Azrael 5]

Uri Geller has just been awarded the David Berglas magicainas award.In accepting this is he now owning up? ;)
http://www.magicconventionguide.com/2008/uri-geller-recieves-the-berglas-foundation-services-to-promotion-of-magic-award/

[JohnG]

Huh, small world. Uri Geller annoys me too.

[tim]

They both irritate me............... :D

[AgeGap]

David would not want to see Uri in hospital.

Read the above quote to see if you have bad thoughts. I am using my psychic powers now and a lot of you will have bad thoughts about Uri.