Date: Mon Sep 21 22:55:49 1992
    From: geller-hotline@ssr.com (James Randi -- Wizard)
    Subject: Update....
    To: broadcast-geller-hotline@ssr.com


    Today I was served with an action that Mr. Geller has been talking about
    and promising for over a year.  It involves a magazine article that
    appeared in Japan years ago.  I have responded to the court.

    In his complaint, Uri Geller repeats part of a story that appeared in a
    UK newspaper.  This he offers as an example of the kind of thing he
    claims I have been saying about him and about others.  I am said to have
    referred to him as, "that insufferable psychic phoney."  About another
    matter, he quotes me as saying:

         How I wish I had been on earth when that other psychic
         phoney, Jesus of Nazareth, had been around.  How I envy
         the Roman soldiers who rammed the nails through that
         psychic phoney's wrists.  How I'd have relished to have
         done the job myself.  How I wish I'd been there to jab
         the life out of that psychic phoney as he hung on that
         silly cross with that spear.

    I need not tell you that all that quoted above came from another person,
    not me.  I believe it shows just how desperate Mr. Geller is to destroy my
    reputation.

    Michael Shermer, in California, reported that he was called by Geller
    last week, and was reminded by the caller that both he and Geller are
    family men.  What that is all about, I'll allow you to decide.

    Mr. Geller is once more represented by legal counsel, after his former
    lawyer was suspended from practice.  The same lawyer is also handling the
    Byrd case.

    All for now.  Life gets more and more interesting every day.     JR

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