siskel and ebert-related stories
Posted Nov 27th 2009 8:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Celebrities, Cancellations, Casting, Reality-Free

When illness prevented Roger Ebert from doing the movie review show he had done since 1982, everyone knew that change was inevitable. But no one could have predicted this much change, not even Ebert.
The Chicago Sun-Times movie critic and original host of
At The Movies with his longtime partner Gene Siskel talked about how
producers completely remade the show.
The changes ranged from the show's hosts down to the famous balcony set that the studio "tore at our set with sledge-hammers, and it collected in a dumpster in the alley."
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TVTattle]
Posted Nov 14th 2009 2:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert can probably be credited with really getting everyone interested in movie criticism. Before
Sneak Previews, people would read movie reviews, sure, but they brought intelligent film criticism to television and became a huge part of pop culture.
This is a tribute from
The Nostalgia Critic, and he covers the history of the show, from the start on PBS to the death of Siskel in 1999 to the hosts that eventually replaced them. He probably needs to get a better microphone, but it's well-done.(Slightly NSFW.)
Posted May 16th 2006 12:07PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Celebrities
This is both hysterical and bittersweet. Someone has found footage of film critic Roger Ebert and his late partner in crime, Gene Siskel, shooting promos for their syndicated program Siskel & Ebert & the Movies. Listen as they both go off on a hilarious tongue-in-cheek rant about WASPs and Protestantism, laugh as they try to get through yet another promo while lobbing insults at one another, and try not to wet your pants when Gene explains that Roger's answer to every question he's asked at McDonald's is "yes."
Funny as all of this is, it does make me miss watching these two guys lock horns with one another. Richard Roeper does okay holding his own against Roger, but it's nothing compared to how he and Gene used to go after one another in what often seemed like an extremely vicious and callous manner. And yet, when it was all said and done they still remained friends.
Note: Links above contain swearing, so probably NSFW.
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Posted Feb 24th 2006 3:56PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show
David Irving recently went
on trial in an Austrian court for denying that the Holocaust
ever happened. He showed up for the case holding his book Hitler's War. Hey, guess what? That was a stupid move,
Irving. Jon said that it would have been a better idea to show up with a neck brace and a yarmulke (I totally didn't
need a dictionary for that).
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