Word: ebert
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Twelve years ago, Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and now better known simply as "the fat one," was asked if he would appear on a new movie-review program being produced by WTTW, the local PBS station. He was intrigued by the idea but not by the prospective costar: his archrival from the Chicago Tribune, Gene Siskel. "The answer," Ebert recalls, "was at the tip of my tongue: no." Nor did Siskel, now frequently referred to as "the other one," relish the thought of sharing a stage with "the most hated guy in my life...
Siskel and Ebert still do not get along, at least in public, but they have put that antagonism to good use. Their show, originally called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You and later Sneak Previews, went national in 1978 and soon became the highest-rated series in PBS history. In 1982 they moved to commercial syndication. Today, under the title Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, they reach an audience of 8 million, ranking in the Top Ten of all once-a-week syndicated shows...
During the past quarter century Harvard and Cambridge have worked occasionally on these structural problems. The Harvard Community Health Plan began in the 1970s as a result of initiative by Dean Ebert of the Medical School...
...Harvard Medical School has been a principal colonizer of the profession's training centers. In the past two decades the deans of 36 other medical schools have taken their degrees in Cambridge. "Most medical schools have a single university hospital," notes former Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...
Critics Jay Carr, Judith Crist, Leonard Maltin and of course Siskel and Ebert have now found such qualms are without foundation. With a directorial sleight of hand, a cast of seasoned pros and a cinematographer who can make suburban Seattle look like the Elysian Fields, Yorkin is able to turn a rather tired story of divorce and readjustment into what the such critics are calling this year's Terms of Endearment. Whatever one thinks of the movie itself, the man does know how to throw one heck of a tea party...