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Posted: Jul 21, 2008 in Culture, Movies, TV and Celebrities
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Richard Roeper has failed to reach a contract extension to appear on "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper," so his last show will be in August.
Roger Ebert, of course, has been sidelined himself for the last two years with health issues. Ebert, who had to have part of his jawbone removed after complications from cancer surgery, is unable to speak and is unlikely to ever return to broadcasting. (Happily, he has returned to writing print reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times.)
It's ironic that Roeper, the guy who was brought in to sub for Gene Siskel, has been using a rotation of guest critics during that time.
This will probably mean the death of what once was the "Siskel & Ebert" show, and that makes me sad. I first got interested in film criticism by watching Gene and Roger, and reading my local critic in the Orlando newspaper. (Local movie critics, remember them?)
My suggestion: they replace the two of them with you and me.
My suggestion: they replace the two of them with you and me.
Joe, you got my vote!
My suggestion: they replace the two of them with you and me.
We definitely wouldn't be doing anything to raise the average attractiveness level of TV critics, but I'm down!
We definitely wouldn't be doing anything to raise the average attractiveness level of TV critics, ...
Maybe we could do the Milli Vanilli thing...get a couple of male models our names and dub our voices on them...we'd be making a statement about society while we told people whether movies were good or bad!
Maybe we could do the Milli Vanilli thing...get a couple of male models our names ...
I nominate Drinky to be my doppelganger.
I accept the nomination. And I am pretty hot. If you're drunk and near-sighted and have lost your glasses in a strip poker game.
Gene Shalit is now free to rome the Earth as the premiere film reviewer...
And we'll always have Michael Medved.
Update: It's officially over.
The AP is reporting that Roger Ebert has cut his ties to the show:
"In an e-mail to The Associated Press on Monday, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic Television had decided to take the show 'in a new direction' and he won't be associated with it."
A little piece of me just died...