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...such a giant comedy nerd that after proudly playing me snippets of his Garry Shandling interview from high school, he takes me into his office in his huge Pacific Palisades, Calif., house to show off a collection of autographed photos he just bought in New York - Sonny and Cher, Siskel and Ebert, Barbara Eden. Then there's the album of autographs he sent away for as a kid that includes a surprising number of headshots of Paul Lynde. It's as if Apatow invited me over hoping I'd beat him up. (See the top 10 dubious SNL hosts...
...Siskel and Ebert play a large role in the book, and I see that Roger Ebert has endorsed it enthusiastically. I think anybody who grows up a cinephile is going to be touched by Robert Ebert. I remember watching Siskel and Ebert as a kid in Chicago and going, "Oh my God, they've cracked the code. This has to be the single greatest existence in the world." In the first couple years I worked at the A.V. Club, I'd tell people that I was a critic. My family members would say, "Your cousin Lloyd wanted...
...named the paper's film critic within six months. His byline has appeared in the paper ever since. In the intervening decades, he has won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the host of a nationally-syndicated weekly TV program, in which he and Gene Siskel would assign films their trademarked thumbs-up, or thumbs-down judgments...
...Sita ran into a $250,000 royalty bill for the circa-1930 recording that supplied the blues. Now some sort of deal has been arranged, and it will open at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago after the festival. Nothing could have been a box office success, I believe, but its distributor went belly-up in the economic downturn. It will be released on DVD in later April...
...Ebert, who began his career as a film critic for the Sun-Times in 1967, started the nationwide show (originally called Sneak Previews) with Siskel on PBS in 1978. The show changed its name to At the Movies and moved to syndication in 1982, and soon became the most popular movie-review show on television. Despite Siskel's death in 1999, from complications related to a brain tumor, the show continued to flourish, first with a series of fill-in critics and finally with Roeper as Ebert's sparring partner...