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I saw this in a rag called The Weekly World News:
Legendary Escape artist and magician Harry Houdini was Gary Gilmore's Great-grandfather.
This legend is false. Look in the book, The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini. It says that he played with his brother Leopold's X-ray machine so much that it made him sterile. So you see, he couldn't have been anybody's father, much less anybody's great-grandfather. The article went on to say that after Houdini's death (a-ha!), one of his female assistants came forward and said that she had an affair with him that resulted in a child. Some people may believe this legend because of the slight resemblance Gilmore has to Houdini. That means nothing. Otherwise, Clint Black would be related to Roy Rogers and Tracy Byrd would be related to Gene Autry. The only thing that is true is that Alan Autry ("Bubba" from In the Heat of the Night) IS related to GENE Autry; they are distant cousins.
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I enjoyed the photos of the alien visits with the Presidential candidates during the 1992 election. And the World War II B-17 bomber found on the Moon.
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For information on the Gilmore family, read the book Shot Through the Heart by Mikal Gilmore. Apparently Gary Gilmore's father really believed he was Houdini's son, but Mikal did some research and found out otherwise.
Oh, and the Weekly World News is always good for a few laughs even though 99.99% of the stuff in it is BS.
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The Gilmore-Houdini legend appears in filmmaker Matthew Barney's Cremaster series. Is this where the legend originated, or has it been around longer?
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quote:Originally posted by Elbe, feelin' the love: I think the fact that it was is the Weekly World News makes it false by default.
While it's fun to read waiting in line at the grocery store, nothing in it merits pondering.
Oooh! How could I have missed this unfair defamation of my beloved Weekly World News? People are always putting it down for being wildly untruthful yet just the other day it had front-page headlines on how Princess Di was alive and recuperating in a French nunnery following her car accident, and it's completely true...Princess Di really was in a car accident.
So watch it!
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It's recorded just about everywhere that Houdini and his wife did not have any children.
And... yeah, weekly world news also said that the end of the world would happen in August of '97. So... I wouldn't put too much faith in what they say.
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