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My personal hero is Uri Geller: I think he went through the most lawsuits

Geller sued Prometheus Books three times but lost and was required to pay more than $20.000 for one process.
Geller sued the magician James Randi three times but lost all of the processes.
In 1991, Geller sued the Timex Watch Company and was sanctioned $149.000 for filing a frivolous lawsuit.
In 1998, the Broadcasting Standards Commission rejected a complaint made by Geller.
In November 2000, Geller sued Nintendo over the Pokémon character "Yungerer," localized in English as "Kadabra," which he claimed was an unauthorised appropriation of his identity. The Pokémon in question has psychic abilities and carries bent spoons. Geller sued for £60 million but lost.
He also considered a suit against IKEA over a furniture line featuring bent legs that was called the "Uri" line.
In March 2007, videos clearly showing Geller cheating were removed from YouTube due to copyright claims by Explorologist Limited.

I think you'd better check some of your facts... Uri won one major law suit against Randi in which Randi was to make a public apology and pay some kind of reparations... I think it was over $100,000.00 to Uri... of course, dear Mr. Honest has done everything to deny and run away from said court ordered obligations, which is true to his nature... Randi never being put in the position of having to pay the proverbial fiddler, it would seem. Even when the conditions of his bogus challenge are met, there is always an excuse.

I'll ask Uri and see if I can't get you the FACTS on this

I met Uri Geller a while ago at the New Uri Geller show in the Netherlands.
After the show you could go up to him and ask for an autograph.
(I collect magicians autographs on blanc face bicycle cards)
Everybody else went to him with little pieces of paper, or with their entrance ticket to get it signed. And they all got his autograph, nothing more.
When I gave my bicycle card to him he asked me 'what's your name?'
So he wrote 'for antonio, Uri Geller'
And everybody was looking at me like "why does he get a personalized autograph and we dont?!?"

ahhh, the benefits of being a magician

It's also worth mentioning, though, that a personalised autograph is more difficult to sell on.

If your Bicycle card just had his signature on it, you could sell it to any number of magicians to use in some packet trick or other.

Being personalised, you could really only sell it on to another Antonio.

If I was asked to autograph any of the books I'd written, I'd be sure to personalise them, ensuring that the autograph request was genuine and not mercenary.

Yeah, like my autograph has value!

pcwells wrote:
Yeah, like my autograph has value!

After Saturday, who knows??!

you tell us... your the friggin medium

pcwells wrote:It's also worth mentioning, though, that a personalised autograph is more difficult to sell on.

If your Bicycle card just had his signature on it, you could sell it to any number of magicians to use in some packet trick or other.

Being personalised, you could really only sell it on to another Antonio.

If I was asked to autograph any of the books I'd written, I'd be sure to personalise them, ensuring that the autograph request was genuine and not mercenary.

Yeah, like my autograph has value!

Hmm good point, never tought about it that way. So actually Uri effed me over

But it's not my intention to sell them later on. I'm going to make a wall poster out of my autographs when I have a complete deck. You know, like the uncut sheets you can buy.
I'm half way there

Interestingly, I've just had a brief exchange of emails with Uri Geller.

He's a thoroughly nice guy.



Pete

Pete, i tell loads of people that, and they dont believe me.

Hes lovely.as is his wife, children, and brother in law/agent.

I think Craig is correct. I vaguely remember that Uri won a case or two. Maybe more.

pcwells wrote:Interestingly, I've just had a brief exchange of emails with Uri Geller.

He's a thoroughly nice guy.



Pete

About a dozen years back I'd posted on a couple of Holistic Health forums, questions about an odd illness my step-daughter was dealing with. I got an email from Uri requesting my home phone number, explaining that he was involved in research dealing with that very same disease with a noted UK based facility... on Christmas morning he called and chatted with Madina for nearly an hour, offering to cover all her expenses when the time was right for human testing, etc.

It was quite an impressive exchange that made him out to be far more "human" and "genuine" than some of the hyperbole we tend to hear about the man within magic circles.

you only hear such things from people who dont know..







or think.

I have always rather liked him. In addition to being a great showman he has written quite a bit about holistic medicine and I have his book on it. He is a good friend of David Berglas (who had a tendency at one time to debunk rather than praise him) and Lord Janner whom I knew quite well in my younger days.