Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller 30/12/09 Finale show

Greek Uri Geller is over... Zakris is a winner. He was so happy!



Really enjoyed this last show especially because the producers gave a chance to all former contestants to perform acts. Especially I liked Vilentoni's tricks with coins and Christos. But all of the contestants were good.

As for finalists Pedram impressed me most of all with escape from water tank. Dynamic and dramatic perfomance, all audience had been involved into in it. I just couldn't see well the numbers on a lock so the person who entered the code could dial any other numberes.





Second for me was Zakris with fire and coffins. Very original and interesting act but too long... it already became boring to the end.





Then - Kary Novel with a map of Europe and a car (the car was an interesting and fresh idea). He is sure a good mentalist and very charming person so though Kary didn't win the show he will have success in Greece.





And Nefesch is the last. I didn't like this act at all - his weak and as Uri said controversial imitation of Jesus Christ (walk on water) in the beginning, all his manner of speaking is too sugary.

As for Uri's act with kids and a compass (or what it was?) it didn't impress me much because I couldn't see well what and why was moving there. But can suppose that the movement can be just a reaction to the sound of voice which has nothing to do with mentalism. In any case, I am waiting from Uri more impressive and strong acts, something like what his contestants do and even better.



I liked Uri's good actor's work during this show. He always looked well and even younger than before, in nice shirts. I liked his talks with Christos and comments about acts. And the dramatic moments when Uri had chosen the mentalists who impressed him least of all.

So now I want to thank Uri for the good show, to thank the great mentalists which took part in it, to thank Christos, producers and everybody who worked on this show and arranged promotion (magazines, Uri's buses!) and of course you my readers!

Wish you all HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

My blog is over too, but welcome to the new blog: The Next Uri Geller 2010!

http://thenexturigeller2010.blogspot.com !

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller - 19/12/09

Semifinal. Not bad though this time I was not realy impressed by any of acts.

No, I liked very much one act - but it was Uri's act with 2 stones. I did it with 2 pens and felt like there were magnetic attraction between them or rubber.



As for second Uri's act (he showed "remote viewing" for Kary Novel) it just made me laugh because Uri pretended that by chance had found a pen on the floor, and after Kary wrote the number Uri asked him to cast him the pen.:))) It was too clear that this was a special "espionage" pen. Uri, darling, please, prepare your acts better!!!



Now, back to mentalists.

Nefesh - "Date"

I like very much the idea of the act but the realization... Just think: a man invites a girl on a date and asks her... to IMAGINE water, red wine, food on the table, etc.! I'd kill the "admirer" for such date or would offer him to imagine dance or sex.:))) No, I'd make this act in another way! A man asks girl what flowers she likes - she answers - he shows audience the sign and gives her the flowers! He asks what wine does she like? She answers - he takes off the cover from the bottle, and we all see the wine. They drink wine, after this he asks what she would like to eat? And takes off the cover from dishes on the table... and in the end he asks what gift she would like to get, and gives her a golden ring or another thing...






Zakris - 4 boxes, girl and hammer.

Very beautiful music and Zakris looks great as always! But the hammer doesn't look enough threatening. Zakris destroys only cover of the box and in any case can't make any harm to a person inside. Besides this Zakris came too close to the boxes and could almost touch them and hear breathing of the girl, or she could even tell him that she is there. And what about the doll? I expected that it will be in the third box and Zakris will damage it by hammer to show audience what could happen to the girl!







Pedram - almost the same act, just Pedram is inside the box.

Sorry I didn't understand what he was doing in the box. Was he sitting squat? Then he didn't risk at all, arrows couldn't make him any harm. And it was necessary to open a box after every shot to make sure that mentalist is not there.





As for Kary Novel and Phedon they didn't impress me, I am not fond of such acts though Kary Novel is very charming.

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller - 12/12/09

Very nice show.

Most of all I enjoyed Pedram's act with cucumbers. He is really very courageous - to teach a girl during one minute to cut cucumbers blindfold and... lie to the table under the sword!





I also liked Zakris's act with boxes and hammer(though The Mask in Netherlands impressed me more). White boxes looked fine, and appearance of the hammer was impressive.
Zakris is a real star of the show, he has a fan club! I didn't expect that Uri will choose him to leave the show but it seems that Uri (or maybe producers) wanted to make fan club work? Of course he stayed, I was almost sure.





Kary Novel (Candyman) - very beautiful act with sweets. But why Kary didn't give the candies to his assistants in the end of the act???!!! Christos is a smart man, as he began to throw the candies to audience.






Phedon's act with telepathy was not bad too and I have no ideas how could he know and write words before people said them. Or maybe they all were actors...

Nefesh's spiritism - well, mystical, beautiful, but as Uri said, too long. And I doubt that the girl really had seen her grandmother.

Vilentoni's act with greeting cards - I would stop on the table with roulette. Not too bad, but... I am not sorry that Vilentoni left show, and he was not upset too.

Uri spoke about Neofitos that he regrets and it's a fault of Cypriots which didn't support him. Yes, it's a pity.

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller December 5

Just good show.

Most of all I liked Pedram's act with TARO cards, it was original and fresh.





Zakris's act (photos of phobias) was not bad too though I agree with Uri that it would be better to take the spider out of the glass box.




And there was one act which I didn't like at all - ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΣ's - guns with nails.

I have seen this act before in other shows but this time it was especially disgusting, and the mentalist looked like an idiot-masochist.

There was no "drama" in this act like Uri said, it was just an awful, stupid and detestable perfomance.



I am sorry about this mentalist because he is handsome, charismatic and could show something better. Maybe had had no choice and simply couldn't choose another act.

Again I knew Uri's decision before he called names of 2 mentalists.

I just hoped that ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΣ will stay but it seems that all audience disliked his last act. I am sorry, ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΣ.

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller November 28

I would like to start from the end because it was really moving. I don't know why producers of the show decided to return back one of contestants but it was really unusual and interesting moment. Though I would prefer back Sankara or The Godfather.
I knew again beforehand that this time Godfather will be eliminated. I felt cold from him like he already didn't belong to the show. I am sorry about him but his acts were really not the best.





Zakris's act impressed me most of all, especially the episode with ice which was very beautiful. I will not be surprised if Zakris will win the show.





ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΣ's act (with Michael Jackson, song "Heal the world" and ballons) was interesting but I don't think it was proper to show photos of Uri and Michael. Though I suppose the mentalist didn't invent the act himself I had a feeling that he tried to "bribe" Uri this way. It was not pleasant.





There was one funny moment when they showed Uri speaking about last act when
ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΣ stopped his heart. Uri called the act "unique" though we have watched it already many times in other shows. Well, well, Uri is a good actor!

Last telepathic act was also not bad, funny little man on the pictures.

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller November 21

Great show. This time I enjoyed absolutely all acts, every minute of the perfomance.

It'd be hard to say who of contestants was the best this evening but Pedram's act with scorpions impressed me most. And "yogi" Sankara's act with "papyrus" looked very beautiful, very well performed. It's a pity that Sankara left the show.

Vilentoni's Gioconda and Kary Novel were also very good and convincing.

As for Uri's "telepathic message" - he sent the star again like in French or another show before. I suppose that most people always select star, it is not telepathy.

But I have got another, really telepathic message from Uri - when he looked at the contestants and decided which 2 impressed him the least I understood his decision (Sankara and Vilentoni) before Uri called their names! The same had happened last time with Godfather. So telepathy really exists, and I can read mind!

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller - 14/11/09

Uri looks great in the blue shirt!

Blue is his color, not black! Uri, please, dress in blue more often!

I liked this perfomance though there were no acts which would really impress me, I have watched most of them before.

The best act was performed by Villentoni who was looking for a hidden item, and audience in masks.


Godfather is still great but I am not fond of his acts. The stick and bricks were obviously sham.

In tne end of the show before Uri called name of God Father I have read his mind and understood he will say this name.

Uri moves tables:

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller November 7

Why does Uri turn out young talented magicians? The boy ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ was not the worst, I liked his act with guessing of items and even his mistake (with a battery) didn't ruin the positive impression. Audience enjoyed the act too.

Pedram's act was really the worst and most boring, there was nothing to watch - all the guns with paint, no danger, no risk, no intrigue.

Most of all I enjoyed Zakris's act with FIRE. So beautiful and dramatic perfomance, accompanied by wonderful music, Zakris looked like a romantic hero in black.
I absolutely agree with Uri who said:"Your detection of spirit's world through the fire was very moving". Yes, it really was.



Uri looked happy and young, in an unusual T-shirt which was a good fit for him. Did he dye hair? I am surprised that Uri was so happy and smiled in the beginning of the show after the bomb threat. Though maybe he was happy that there was no bomb and the show got more PR?

Uri told that he likes to create a mystery and mystify "people at home". make them guess if the things which he does are real or not. I can understand this but does Uri also like to mystify scientists, government and oil companies? It's a miracle that he didn't get beans yet for such jokes.:)

Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller October 31

Really enjoy this blue light. It creates a mysterious atmosphere.

Well, I liked this perfomance though nobody of contestants managed to amaze me. But I have chosen my favourite - The Godfather! He is very charismatic, handsome and looks like Jesus Christ. Though his act (Shadows) could be better. I expected from him more than just touching girls by stick.



As for other contestants, I liked Costas Costa who made a man "lucky" by magic watch and helped him to "win" in a lottery. The act was funny, original and very positive.


I also liked Nefesch from El Salvador (act "Dreams" with telepathy and drawing - he "read" and drew dreams of a girl.) The act was beautiful, and I am sorry that Uri turned him out.

ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ's act (he guessed in what hand is a stone) was simple but funny and not bad. Amila performed this act in German show.

I liked beginning of "yogi" Sankara's act - nice video about the contestant, and i was really impressed and even a little scared to see so many snakes. But I suppose that the snakes were not venomous as than man took them by hands. Besides this the table looked too suspicious, like there was an automatic machine inside, and snakes could fall into it and come back when it is necessary. To my mind there were no snakes at all when Sankara poked holes in the pots because snakes would stir and try to climb out. So the act was unconvincing.

And I didn't like Vilentoni's act with girls and photos. Though the girls were pretty but in so awful black smokes! I thought they will undress later but they didn't, only one girl stripped but it would be better for her not to do it, as she was fat... Nemetov performed this act better. Uri has found this act "very entertaining", I don't know why.

Uri's act with red radish was not bad but I didn't understand what flowers were doing on the stage. I liked more the dramatic moment close to the end when Uri had chosen a contestant who will leave the show and when he embraced the poor Nefesch which was almost crying. It really looked impressive.

Greek contestants

Γνωρίστε τους 11 υποψηφίους διαδόχους του Uri Geller:

1. COSTAS COSTA Το χιούμορ αποτελεί τη βασική μορφή επικοινωνίας του με τους ανθρώπους. Εμπνέεται και ζει μέσα από αυτό. Κατάγεται από την Κύπρο και οι ικανότητές του μπορούν είτε να μας αφήσουν άφωνους, είτε να μας κάνουν να δακρύσουμε από τα γέλια!!!

2. KARY NOVEL O 27χρονος «διανοούμενος» mentalist. Του αρέσει το διάβασμα, γράφει νουβέλες, αγαπάει τη μουσική και ισχυρίζεται ότι βλέπει όσα εμείς δε μπορούμε να δούμε. Μια ματιά του φτάνει για να μας διαβάσει σαν «ανοιχτό βιβλίο»...

3. NEFESCH Ο 26χρονος mentalist κατάγεται από το Ελ Σαλβαδόρ. Όνειρό του είναι να τον αγκαλιάσει και να τον αγαπήσει το ελληνικό κοινό. Έχει ελληνικές ρίζες, θαυμάζει τον ελληνικό πολιτισμό και γι’ αυτό διάλεξε την Ελλάδα για να κάνει ένα νέο ξεκίνημα.

4. PEDRAM Ο 22χρονος mentalist είναι περσικής καταγωγής, μεγάλωσε στη Γερμανία και από τα 11 του χρόνια ζει στην Ελλάδα. Ασχολείται 15 χρόνια με τις πολεμικές τέχνες. Έχει κατακτήσει την ικανότητα πλήρους αυτοσυγκράτησης και πειθαρχίας και νιώθει σίγουρος για κάθε του κίνηση. Έχει μάθει να ζει με τον κίνδυνο, που θεωρεί ότι είναι ο πιο σκληρός αντίπαλός του. Ξέρει να τον προκαλεί, αλλά και να τον αποφεύγει.

5. PHEDON Ο 35χρονος Φαίδων είναι ελληνικής καταγωγής, μεγάλωσε στο Καμερούν και ήρθε με σκοπό να μας καταπλήξει με τις ικανότητές του. Έζησε έντονη ζωή, γεμάτη πλούσιες εμπειρίες και γι’ αυτό εμπιστεύεται το ένστικτό του. Το μίγμα καμερουνέζικης, γαλλικής και ελληνικής κουλτούρας τον καθιστά μοναδικό!!!

6. SANKARA Ο 34χρονος Κρητικός ίσως σε κάποια άλλη ζωή να ζούσε στη μακρινή Ινδία. Δεν είναι λίγα τα ερεθίσματα που έχει από τη μαγευτική χώρα της Νότιας Ασίας. Ακόμα και το όνομά του προέρχεται από τον Ινδό φιλόσοφο «Σανκάρα». Η γιόγκα όμως ήταν αυτή που τον ώθησε στο χώρο του mentalism. Το έχει βάλει σκοπό να μας καταπλήξει και να μας αποκαλύψει μια νέα πλευρά του εαυτού του, την οποία κι εκείνος θα ανακαλύψει από την αρχή!

7. THE GODFATHER Είναι 31 ετών, κατάγεται από τη Λευκωσία της Κύπρου και έχει ζήσει πολλά χρόνια στην Αμερική. Τον ελκύει καθετί περίεργο, ανεξήγητο και υπερφυσικό . Ο «άνθρωπος με τα πολλά πρόσωπα» ξέρει πώς να εντυπωσιάζει και να συνεπαίρνει το κοινό του.

8. VILENTONI Είναι 29 ετών, ζει στην Αθήνα και όλοι οι φίλοι του τον θαυμάζουν για τις ικανότητές του. Ο γοητευτικός mentalist ισχυρίζεται ότι ξέρει να διαβάζει το γυναικείο μυαλό! Η αδρεναλίνη του ανεβαίνει στα ύψη όταν πρόκειται να αντιμετωπίσει το γυναικείο φύλο, καθώς τον εξιτάρει και τον κάνει να νιώθει πιο δυνατός.

9. ZACRIS Είναι 31 ετών. Γεννήθηκε και μεγάλωσε στο Ηράκλειο της Κρήτης. Από μικρός άρχισε να αντιλαμβάνεται ότι δεν έμοιαζε με τα υπόλοιπα παιδιά της ηλικίας του... Αγαπάει το θέατρο και είναι συλλέκτης σπάνιων μεσαιωνικών αντικειμένων. Άλλωστε ο μεσαίωνας φαίνεται πως είναι μια εποχή που τον έχει σημαδέψει. Το επιβλητικό του βλέμμα κόβει την ανάσα!

10. ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΛΟΥΚΟΣ Είναι ο νεότερος mentalist και αυτό τον κάνει να θέλει να ξεπερνά κάθε φορά τον εαυτό του. Είναι μαθητής της Γ’ Λυκείου και θέλει να μας αποδείξει ότι η διαίσθησή του είναι πιο ανεπτυγμένη από των ανθρώπων γύρω του. Δε διστάζει να παραδεχτεί ότι κάθε μέρα ανακαλύπτει και μια καινούρια δυνατότητά του, όπως άλλωστε ανακαλύπτει και την ίδια τη ζωή!

11. ΝΕΟΦΥΤΟΣ Κατάγεται από την Πάφο της Κύπρου και είναι 29 ετών. Η δύναμη του Νεόφυτου είναι η θετική ενέργεια. Πιστεύει ότι αν όλοι μας την ανακαλύψουμε, θα εκπλαγούμε απo αυτά που μπορούμε να καταφέρουμε. Μας προσκαλεί να αφεθούμε στα χέρια του και υπόσχεται να μη μας απογοητεύσει.

I wonder why so many from Cyprus?

New country, new scandal

There is an interesting discussion on the forum, Greek mentalists about Uri Geller and his show:

http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=206279


But I have heard by my own ears that this time Uri declared in the very beginning of the show:"We don't claim to have any supernatural powers"!

Greek Uri Geller started!

In Greece the show is called:"Ο διάδοχος του Uri Geller".

I really enjoy the perfomance!

Impressive music, background, light and costumes. Charming contestants. Uri is in good shape though too skinny. I wonder do they feed him?

I especially liked act with telepathy (drawing of aeroplane), telekinesis (wooden spoon on the table) and Uri's act with broken watches.

Pedram's act with knives had a big success but for me it was too long.




This act is a little funny in the end.