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Siskel and Ebert: How Two Talking Heads Made Movie Criticism Exciting

Before the two critics got together, television did not show clips of current films. The producers of ‘Siskel & Ebert’ actually had to get permission from Hollywood studios to edit clips to be used on the small screen.

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Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert at Los Angeles in 1986. AP/Douglas C. Pizac, file