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Ebert Remembers Siskel
It was Roger Ebert's tribute to colleague Gene Siskel, the all-thumbs movie critic who died Saturday at age 53--finally severing a partnership that contentious argument and heated rivalry could not.
"For the first five years that we knew each other, Gene Siskel and I hardly spoke," Ebert wrote in Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times. "Then it seemed like we never stopped."
Ebert plans to host a solo edition of the team's popular syndicated review show next week. It'll be a tribute to Siskel.
Siskel and Ebert--or "Sisbert," as the pair was known--were on-air partners for 24 years. When first approached to team up for a local Chicago TV show, Ebert said they both asked to do the gig with someone else.
"Anyone else," he wrote.
"At first the relationship on TV was edgy and uncomfortable," Ebert said in the column. "Our newspaper rivalry was always in the air between us."
Indeed, Ebert once said the two men hugged just once--in 1985 in the "green room" of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. It was a quick slap on the back, an acknowledgment of how far they'd come.
In the end, the two developed something more than grudging respect. In his column, Ebert called Siskel one of the best flat-out reporters he'd ever known. He called him "ferociously honest" in his film reviews. He called him brave.
"Gene kept private about the state of his health in the months after his surgery," Ebert wrote. "I understood why. He wanted to protect his family from the attention that might result. He wanted the focus to remain on his film criticism."
Siskel underwent brain surgery to remove a "growth" last May. He returned to work--his TV gigs, his newspaper and magazine columns--just weeks later. Earlier this month he announced he finally was going to take some real time off to rest. But reports Sunday said Siskel's health was worsening. He had difficulty walking and standing.
"I never once heard him complain," Ebert wrote.
Funeral services are scheduled for today in Chicago. Siskel's survivors include a wife, three children and one fellow movie lover.
"It was unnatural for two men to be rivals six days of the week and sit down together on the seventh [to tape a TV show]," Ebert wrote. "But over the years respect grew between us, and it deepened into friendship and love."
There are no concrete plans for the future of "Sisbert's" TV show, outside of a revolving slate of cohosts. Washington Post critic Tom Shales debuted in the rotation last weekend.
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