“Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert saw each other as more than competitors; they were closer to mortal enemies,” writes the author of a new book.
During the late 1980s, when his movie review show with fellow film critic Roger Ebert was called “Sneak Previews,” Gene Siskel would occasionally take cat naps under the table in their station’s conference room.
“Each considered it an essential aspect of their job to beat the other; to write the best review, to land the biggest interview, to score the best scoops. And they took their jobs very seriously.” He was such a wildly ambitious person that his roommate at Yale — a school with no shortage of extremely driven people — called him “the most competitive person I’ve ever run across — more so than Michael Jordan or Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
In an article about the disagreement in TV Guide, Ebert said, “The program is ‘Siskel & Ebert.’ A decision like that should have been discussed beforehand. It was arrogant of him.” Ebert was enraged when Siskel, in a discussion of the film “The Crying Game,” revealed the film’s then-shocking twist that actor Jaye Davidson’s character Dil was a transgender woman.
For their first appearance on the Johnny Carson-hosted “The Tonight Show,” in 1985, the pair were so nervous that for the first and only time in their lives, they shared a hug.
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