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President Bok, Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson and former Medical School dean Robert H. Ebert will dedicate this afternoon a new Medical Education Center at the Medical School...
...Ebert, 44, got a journalism degree from the University of Illinois, went to work for the Sun-Times at age 24 and landed the movie-reviewing spot a year later. Siskel, 41, majored in philosophy at Yale, became a reporter for the Tribune at 23 and the paper's film critic soon afterward. They have been aggressive rivals in print ever since, though the competition hit a snag last year when the Tribune removed Siskel as daily critic and relegated him to feature pieces and capsule reviews...
...have little in common outside the TV studio, aside from their reported $1 million salaries from TV alone. Ebert, a bachelor, lives in a three-story Victorian house (where he keeps the curtains drawn to protect his collection of watercolors), teaches a film course at the University of Chicago, and once wrote scripts for Erotic-Film Producer Russ Meyer. Siskel lives with his wife and two children in a fashionable ten-room co-op and is such a fan of Saturday Night Fever that at a celebrity auction he bought the % white suit John Travolta wore in the film. They...
...their feud a fake? "On all the movie sets I've been on," says Siskel, "I've never seen people get as angry as Roger and I get." Nor are the fights confined to the TV cameras. On a recent plane trip, Siskel was trying to teach Ebert to play Michigan rummy. At one point, Ebert accused Siskel of throwing a card into the wrong pile. Siskel denied it, and Ebert suddenly tossed up his seat tray. "That's it," he cried. "No more cards!" Hmmm. Conflict, characters you can identify with -- definitely a thumbs...
Bickering in the balcony once a week on TV, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert have turned movie criticism into a hit attraction...