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      • In recent years, Ebert has been battling cancer. He has undergone a series of operations, with doctors removing a cancerous growth from his salivary gland and part of his right jaw. He has been unable to appear on the show since doctors performed surgery in July 2006 that left him unable to speak.
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  2. Nov 16, 2023 · Ebert may have been intensely conscious of a rivalry with Siskel, but Siskel’s competitive ferocity and confrontational chutzpah were on another level. When asked by his first boss at the ...

  3. Roger Ebert. Gene Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) and Roger Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013), collectively known as Siskel & Ebert, were American film critics known for their partnership on television lasting from 1975 to Siskel's death in 1999. [1]

  4. Feb 20, 2024 · One of their defining moments happened in an episode from June 1987, when the quarreling critics butted heads while reviewing Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. Ebert found it cliched and derivative of Platoon, while Siskel considered it among the year’s best films.

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  5. Oct 7, 2023 · Siskel & Ebert’s fierce, petty rivalry revealed: Sabotage, lies and special seat cushions. By. Larry Getlen. Published Oct. 7, 2023, 10:00 a.m. ET. A new book explores the contentious ...

  6. Aug 10, 2021 · In this excerpt from The Ringer’s narrative podcast series ‘Gene and Roger,’ Brian Raftery examines the Siskel and Ebert effect on film criticism—and the many shows that tried to copy ...

  7. Oct 11, 2023 · It’s a sharp-witted account of how these two neatly contrasting Chicago media paragons no longer with us — Siskel died of a brain tumor in 1999 at age 53; Ebert died at age 70 of thyroid cancer...

  8. Michael Ebert. Actor: Hamlet. Michael Ebert is a stage, film and television actor. He appeared on Broadway as Fortinbras in Hamlet starring Richard Burton (and in the filmed version of that production), in The Man in the Glass Booth, and Wait Until Dark among other Broadway and theater roles, many at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.