American film critic (1946?1999)
Eugene Kal Siskel
(January 26, 1946 ? February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the
Chicago Tribune
. He is best known for co-hosting various movie review television series with colleague
Roger Ebert
.
[1]
Siskel started writing for the
Chicago Tribune
in 1969, becoming its film critic soon after. In 1975, he was paired with Roger Ebert to co-host a monthly show called
Opening Soon at a Theater Near You
airing locally on
PBS
member station
WTTW
.
[2]
In 1978, the show, renamed
Sneak Previews
, was expanded to weekly episodes and aired on PBS affiliates all around the United States.
[2]
In 1982, Siskel and Ebert both left
Sneak Previews
to create the
syndicated
show
At the Movies
.
[2]
Following a contract dispute with
Tribune Entertainment
in 1986, Siskel and Ebert signed with
Buena Vista Television
, creating
Siskel & Ebert & the Movies
(renamed
Siskel & Ebert
in 1987, and renamed again several times after Siskel's death).
[2]
Known for their biting wit, intense professional rivalry, heated arguments, and trademark "Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down" movie ratings system, Siskel and Ebert became celebrated in American pop culture.
[3]
[4]
Siskel was diagnosed with brain cancer in May 1998 but remained in the public eye as Ebert's professional partner until his death the following year.
[1]
Early life
[
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]
Siskel was born in Chicago on January 26, 1946, the youngest of three children born to Ida (nee Kalis) and Nathan William Siskel, who were
Russian Jewish
immigrants.
[5]
His father died when he was four and his mother died when he was nine; thereafter, he was raised by his aunt and uncle.
[7]
He attended
Culver Academies
, where he experienced anti-Semitism firsthand when a schoolmate gave him a piece of toast on which jam was spread in the shape of a swastika.
[8]
Siskel graduated from
Yale University
with a degree in philosophy in 1967. While at Yale, Siskel was classmates with poet
Paul Monette
and future New York Governor
George Pataki
.
[9]
Siskel studied writing under
Pulitzer Prize
-winning author
John Hersey
, whose reference would later help Siskel get a job at the
Chicago Tribune
in 1969.
[10]
Career
[
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]
Writing
[
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]
Siskel's first print review, written one month before he became the
Tribune
'
s film critic, was for the film
Rascal
.
[11]
[12]
His review of the film was not favorable ("Because of the excessive gimmickry, most kids will miss the tenderness," he wrote).
[11]
[12]
Prior to this, he served in the
U.S. Army Reserve
; he was a military journalist and public affairs officer for the
Defense Information School
.
[13]
For a time afterwards, he was acquainted with
Playboy
magazine publisher
Hugh Hefner
.
[14]
In 1986, the
Chicago Tribune
announced that Siskel was no longer the paper's film critic, and that his position with the paper had been shifted from that of a full-time film critic to that of a freelance contract writer who was to write about the film industry for the Sunday paper and also provide capsule film reviews for the paper's entertainment sections.
[15]
The demotion occurred after Siskel and Ebert decided to shift production of their weekly movie-review show, then known as
At the Movies
(later known as
Siskel & Ebert
), from
Tribune Entertainment
to
the Walt Disney Company
's
Buena Vista Television
unit. Editor James Squires stated on the move, "He's done a great job for us. It's a question of how much a person can do physically. We think you need to be a newspaper person first, and Gene Siskel always tried to do that. But there comes a point when a career is so big that you can't do that." Siskel declined to comment on the new arrangement, but Ebert publicly criticized Siskel's
Tribune
bosses for punishing Siskel for taking their television program to a company other than Tribune Entertainment.
[16]
Ebert privately suggested that Siskel join him at the
Chicago Sun-Times
, but Siskel remained a freelancer for the
Tribune
until his death in 1999.
He was replaced as film critic by
Dave Kehr
.
[18]
The last review published by Siskel for the
Chicago Tribune
was for the film
She's All That
, published on January 29, 1999, in which he gave a favorable review, giving it three stars out of four and wrote that "
Rachael Leigh Cook
as Laney, the plain Jane object of the makeover, is forced to demonstrate the biggest emotional range as a character, and she is equal to the assignment. I look forward to seeing her in her next movie."
[11]
[19]
Siskel & Ebert
[
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]
In 1975, Siskel teamed up with Ebert, film reviewer for the
Chicago Sun-Times
, to host a show on local Chicago PBS station
WTTW
which eventually became
Sneak Previews
.
[2]
Their "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" system soon became an easily recognizable trademark,
[2]
[3]
[4]
popular enough to be parodied on comedy shows such as
Second City Television
,
In Living Color
,
Bizarre
, and in movies such as
Hollywood Shuffle
and
Godzilla
.
[20]
Sneak Previews
gained a nationwide audience in 1977 when WTTW offered it as a series to the
PBS
program system.
[2]
Siskel and Ebert left WTTW and PBS in 1982 for
syndication
.
[2]
Their new show,
At the Movies
, was produced and distributed by
Tribune Broadcasting
, the parent company of the
Chicago Tribune
and
WGN-TV
.
[2]
Sneak Previews
continued on PBS for 14 more years with other hosts until its cancellation in 1996.
[2]
In 1986, Siskel and Ebert left Tribune Broadcasting to have their show produced by the syndication arm of
the Walt Disney Company
.
[2]
The new incarnation of the show was originally titled
Siskel & Ebert & the Movies
, but later shortened to
Siskel & Ebert
.
[2]
At the Movies
also continued for a few more years with other hosts until its cancellation in 1990.
[2]
The last five movies Siskel reviewed with Ebert on the show before his death aired during the weekend of January 23?24, 1999. On the show, they reviewed
At First Sight
,
Another Day in Paradise
,
The Hi-Lo Country
,
Playing by Heart
, and
The Theory of Flight
.
[21]
Siskel gave thumbs up to all of them, except for
Playing by Heart
.
[21]
Following Siskel's death, Ebert continued the series with rotating guest hosts, which included
Martin Scorsese
,
[22]
Janet Maslin
,
Peter Bogdanovich
,
Todd McCarthy
,
Lisa Schwarzbaum
,
Kenneth Turan
.
Elvis Mitchell
, and the eventual replacement for Siskel,
Richard Roeper
.
[23]
[24]
Film and TV appearances
[
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]
Siskel and Ebert were known for their many appearances on late-night talk shows, including appearances on
The Late Show with David Letterman
sixteen times and
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
fifteen times. They also appeared together on
The Oprah Winfrey Show
,
The Arsenio Hall Show
,
Howard Stern
,
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
, and
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
.
In 1982, 1983, and 1985, Siskel, along with Ebert, appeared as themselves on
Saturday Night Live
.
[26]
[27]
For their first two appearances, they reviewed sketches from that night's telecast and reviewed sketches from the "SNL Film Festival" for their last appearance.
[28]
In 1991, Siskel, along with Ebert, appeared in a segment on the children's television series
Sesame Street
entitled "Sneak Peak Previews" (a parody of
Sneak Previews
).
[29]
In the segment, the critics instruct the hosts
Oscar the Grouch
and Telly Monster on how their thumbs up/thumbs down rating system works.
[29]
Oscar asks if there could be a thumbs sideways ratings, and goads the two men into an argument about whether or not that would be acceptable, as Ebert likes the idea, but Siskel does not.
[29]
The two were also seen that same year in the show's celebrity version of "
Monster in the Mirror
".
[30]
In 1993, Siskel appeared as himself in an episode of
The Larry Sanders Show
entitled "Off Camera".
[31]
Entertainment Weekly
chose his performance as one of the great scenes in that year's television.
[32]
In 1995, Siskel and Ebert guest-starred on an episode of the animated TV series
The Critic
entitled "Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice".
[33]
In the episode, Siskel and Ebert split and each wants protagonist Jay Sherman, a fellow movie critic, as his new partner.
[33]
The episode is a parody of the film
Sleepless in Seattle
.
[33]
An early appearance of Siskel, taken from
Opening Soon at a Theater Near You
, the predecessor to
Sneak Previews
, is included in the 2009 documentary film,
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
.
[34]
In the film, he is seen debating with Ebert over the merits of the
film version
of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
.
[34]
Critical style
[
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]
Gene Siskel had an abrasive review style, and claimed his film criticism was an individual exercise that should not be swayed by public taste. In an interview for the Academy of Television and Radio, his TV co-host said of him, "I think Gene felt that he had to like the whole picture to give it a thumbs up."
[35]
In particular, he often gave negative reviews to films that became box office champs and went on to be considered mainstream classics:
Poltergeist
,
[36]
Scarface
,
[37]
Beverly Hills Cop
,
[38]
The Terminator
,
Aliens
,
Predator
,
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
,
Thelma & Louise
, and
Independence Day
. This even extended to several films that went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture:
The Silence of the Lambs
[11]
[39]
and
Unforgiven
.
Yet, Ebert also noted in a memoriam episode of
Siskel and Ebert
that when Siskel found a movie that he truly treasured, he embraced it as something special. Directly addressing his late colleague, Ebert said: "I know for sure that seeing a truly great movie made you so happy that you'd tell me a week later your spirits were still high."
[40]
Some of Siskel's most treasured movies included
My Dinner with Andre
(1981),
[41]
Shoah
(1985),
Fargo
(1996), and the documentary
Hoop Dreams
(1994).
[42]
Preferences
[
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]
Favorites
[
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]
One of Siskel's favorite films was
Saturday Night Fever
;
[43]
he even bought the famous white
disco
suit that John Travolta wore in the film from a charity auction.
[44]
Another all-time favorite was
Dr. Strangelove
.
[45]
[46]
A favorite from childhood was
Dumbo
,
[47]
which he often mentioned as the first film that had an influence on him.
[40]
[48]
[49]
Best films of the year
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]
Siskel compiled "best of the year" film lists from 1969 to 1998, which helped to provide an overview of his critical preferences.
[50]
[51]
His top choices were:
From 1969 until his death in February 1999, he and Ebert were in agreement on nine annual top selections:
Z
,
The Godfather
,
Nashville
,
The Right Stuff
,
Do the Right Thing
,
Goodfellas
,
Schindler's List
,
Hoop Dreams
, and
Fargo
. There would have been a tenth, but Ebert declined to rank the
9
+
1
⁄
2
-hour documentary
Shoah
as 1985's best film because he felt it was inappropriate to compare it to the rest of the year's candidates.
[66]
Six times, Siskel's number one choice did not appear on Ebert's top ten list at all:
Straight Time
,
Ragtime
,
Once Upon a Time in America
,
The Last Temptation of Christ
,
Hearts of Darkness
, and
The Ice Storm
. Six times, Ebert's top selection did not appear on Siskel's; these films were
3 Women
,
An Unmarried Woman
,
Apocalypse Now
,
Sophie's Choice
,
Mississippi Burning
, and
Dark City
.
[50]
Personal life
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]
In 1980, Siskel married Marlene Iglitzen, who was then a producer for
CBS
in New York. They had two daughters, Kate and Callie, and a son, Will. Their daughters graduated from Siskel's alma mater, Yale University.
[67]
Illness and death
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]
Siskel was diagnosed with a malignant, terminal
brain tumor
on May 8, 1998.
[68]
He underwent brain surgery three days later.
[70]
[71]
For a few weeks during his recovery, he participated on
Siskel & Ebert
by telephone, calling in from his hospital bed while Ebert appeared in the studio.
[72]
[73]
[74]
Siskel did not disclose the severity of his illness to anyone outside of his family; publicly, he said that the surgery removed an unspecified "growth" on his brain, and that he was recovering well.
He eventually returned to the studio, but was noted to appear more lethargic and mellow than usual.
On February 3, 1999, he announced that he was taking a
leave of absence
from the show, but that he expected to be back by the fall, stating, "I'm in a hurry to get well because I don't want Roger to get more screen time than I."
[10]
Siskel died at a hospital in
Evanston, Illinois
, on February 20, 1999, nine months after his diagnosis and surgery; he was 53 years old.
[10]
His
funeral
was held two days later at the
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El
.
[7]
[46]
He is interred at
Westlawn Cemetery
in
Norridge, Illinois
.
[78]
[79]
Legacy
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]
Siskel was a Chicago sports fan, especially of his hometown basketball team, the
Chicago Bulls
, and would cover locker-room celebrations for
WBBM-TV
news broadcasts following Bulls championships in the 1990s.
[40]
Siskel was also a member of the advisory committee of the
Film Center
at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
, and a strong supporter of the Film Center mission.
[80]
He wrote hundreds of articles applauding the Film Center's distinctive programming and lent the power of his position as a well-known film critic to urge public funding and audience support.
[80]
In 2000, the Film Center was renamed
The Gene Siskel Film Center
in his honor.
[80]
Only once during his long association with Ebert did Siskel ever change his vote on a movie during the review. He initially gave the film
Broken Arrow
a "thumbs up", but after hearing Ebert's criticism, Siskel changed his mind to "thumbs down".
[81]
[82]
However, he had changed his opinions on films years after his initial reviews, as with
Tremors
, which he gave a negative review to in 1990
[83]
but later gave a glowing positive review in 1994, stating, "I wasn't sure what I missed the first time around, but it just didn't click."
[84]
Siskel said that he walked out on three films during his professional career: the 1971 comedy
The Million Dollar Duck
starring
Dean Jones
, the 1980 horror film
Maniac
, and the 1996
Penelope Spheeris
film
Black Sheep
.
[45]
[85]
When he mentioned walking out on
Black Sheep
in 1996, he said it was the first time he walked out on a movie he was reviewing since
Million Dollar Duck
in 1971; he later explained that he did not include
Maniac
because he did not review
Maniac
as an assignment for his newspaper or part of his and Ebert's weekly TV reviews but only as a "Dog of the Week", a feature of the TV show in which each critic would single out the very worst movie they had seen that week.
[81]
Both critics had specific sensitivities and feelings that would often vary in extremes to certain kinds of bad films.
[2]
[86]
[87]
Ebert was very sensitive to films about race and ethnicity; Siskel was sensitive to films about families and family relationships, and had a special hatred for films like
House Arrest
(1996) and
Like Father Like Son
(1987), both of which were about parents and their children.
[88]
[89]
[90]
Following Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert wrote:
Gene was a lifelong friend, and our professional competition only strengthened that bond. I can't even imagine what will it be like without him. ...As a critic, Siskel was passionate and exacting. I think it was important to Gene that this was the only serious film criticism on television. That made him proud. We had a lot of big fights. We were people who came together one day a week and, the other six days, we were competitors on two daily newspapers and two different television stations. So there was a lot of competition and a lot of disagreement.
[91]
Ebert once said of his relationship with Siskel:
Gene Siskel and I were like tuning forks. Strike one, and the other would pick up the same frequency. When we were in a group together, we were always intensely aware of one another. Sometimes this took the form of camaraderie, sometimes shared opinions, sometimes hostility.
[92]
[93]
When both men appeared together on
The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers
,
Joan Rivers
conducted a "together and separately" interview with them, which at one point had each of them wear Walkman-style headphones, playing loud music, while the other commented on his partner.
[94]
When asked what he thought was the biggest difference between himself and Ebert, Siskel unhesitatingly replied: "I'm a better reviewer than he is", but a few moments later, he said that anyone who read an Ebert review would read "an extremely well-written review".
[94]
At the
1999 Academy Awards
ceremony, after its
in memoriam
montage of deceased stars and film contributors (which did not include Siskel), host
Whoopi Goldberg
gave a brief impromptu tribute to Siskel:
I want to take a moment to acknowledge someone we lost too recently to include in our film tribute. He wasn't a filmmaker, but he definitely was a member of our film community. Now he clobbered some of us with a great big stick and sometimes he touched us with a velvet glove. I'm talking about Gene Siskel. He was a critic but more importantly, he really loved movies, so, Gene, wherever you are, honey, here's to you.
[95]
She included the iconic "thumbs-up" gesture; it received a great round of audience applause.
[95]
Filmography
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Bibliography
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.
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.
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"It Stinks!" "You're Crazy!"
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.
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