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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...
Maybe, maybe not, but what keeps viewers tuning in is the chance to see them try to kill each other. The format of their show is simple. For each film (four are reviewed in a typical half-hour, plus an extra segment on videocassette releases), one of the pair will introduce clips, describe the plot and give a capsule review. Then comes an ad-lib passage in which the other offers his comments or rebuttal. The cross talk often gets testy. After the two disagreed about Susan Seidelman's comedy Making Mr. Right, Ebert concluded defiantly, "I enjoyed myself from...
...Jeffrey Lyons and Michael Medved on Sneak Previews. Meanwhile, Siskel and Ebert are frequent guests on the Tonight show and have mock-settled their differences in a basketball-shooting contest on Late Night with David Letterman. Movies now even make fun of them: in Hollywood Shuffle, two streetwise blacks review movies in a takeoff called Sneakin' in the Movies...
...believe that there are enough readers around to keep 11 civil liberties publications afloat. But I guess there are, because Langdell stocks them. They are, in nearly alphabetical order: Civil Justice Quarterly, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties Alert, Civil Liberties Bulletin, Civil Liberties Docket, Civil Liberties Reporter, Civil Liberties Review, Civil Liberty, Civil Rights Digest, Civil Rights Update, and the ever-popular Civil Rights Newsletter of Colorado. The last periodical must exist because the people of the great state of Colorado find that the national civil liberties publications don't appeal to them...
Boston College is a school I had heard of. But I was unprepared for the institution to stock six different law reviews: The B.C. International and Comparative Law Review, The B.C. Industrial and Commercial Law Review, The B.C. Law Review, The B.C. Environmental Affairs Law Review, The B.C. Third World Law Review, and The B.C. Intramural Law Review...