Geller Freud, who claims family ties to the Viennese master. Gregarious, exuding passion and, well, energy, Geller fixes his dark eyes on you, and the feeling is slightly disquieting. He also possesses an unabashed flair for self-promotion, immediately signing the aforementioned bent spoon with a special marker. But if the capitalist Geller is dying, the showman never felt better. He claims to have helped the English national soccer team beat Scotland a few years back by buzzing the stadium in a helicopter and concentrating until the ball moved just as a Scottish player shot, and missed, a penalty kick.
Many people do spoon bending, and it's done with misdirection.
Look, I'm brash and outspoken, so some people are frightened, and some maybe even anti-Semitic. I am not a healer, prophet or guru. Whatever he is, the world once was on board big time, providing Geller with a life that would out-twist the most serpentine screenplay. After dazzling audiences in Tel Aviv at the start of the '70s, Geller became entangled in a series of experiments at Stanford University designed to validate or repudiate his powers. Although nothing conclusive was produced, Geller was enough of a mystery to attract the attention of government officials from the United States, Mexico and Israel.