AT THE MOVIES WITH GENE SISKEL & ROGER EBERT
**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER Story By: G. H. HARDING **** Roger Ebert LIFE ITSELF --- There was one show that growing up, I could never seem get enough of, At The Movies with film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. This half-hour program was so unusual on so many levels: Who were these upstart film critics, Siskel and Ebert, who brilliantly heightened the demeanor of film criticism. Siskel, from the Chicago Tribune, and Ebert, via the Chicago Sun Times, were rivals who were seemingly everywhere; be it Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show; magazines covers; or, Oprah. Siskel with his urbane flair and Ebert, rotund, stinging and succinct … they were an unexpected, but terrific match. Siskel passed from brain cancer and Ebert developed cancer too which eventually robbed him of his jaw … and, his voice. This weekend I finally caught the movie (via director Steve James) of Life Itself, which chronicled Ebert’s improbable rise to superstardom … and, loved it. May...