The Jerusalem Report
January 31, 2000Here's Uri!
It was one of Uri Geller's most complicated stunts. Israel's spoon-bender managed to turn back the clock by 27 years in early January, returning to NBC's "Tonight Show" to pick up the reputation he lost there in 1973. Geller did major damage to his career by failing to bring off any of his metal-mangling tricks for skeptical then-host Johnny Carson. Current MC Jay Leno obviously had a more calming effect: Geller, 53, fixed broken watches and recreated a drawing by fellow guest Tim Robbins. Geller, who lives in England, is trying to recapture a place in the public eye after years of anonymity, and was on "Tonight" plugging his new self-help book, "Mind Medicine."
