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Friday, November 10, 2000 | return to: international
‘Spoon’ psychic seeing red over Pokemon villain
by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Israeli psychic is suing Nintendo for allegedly basing an evil Pokemon character after him., Uri Geller, who says he can bend spoons with his mind, is making the claim because the Pokemon character, Yun Geller, carries a
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Geller said the lighting bolts on the monster's costume are reminiscent of a Nazi symbol.
Marshall Grossman, Geller's lawyer, intends to seek "hundreds of millions" of dollars from Nintendo and to force them to stop [[dotaccent]]using the character.
A spokesman for Nintendo in the United States says the firm is "not able to comment."
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