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somebody asks you where youre from and you answer, "im from chicago," nobodys going to give you a patronizing response like, "oh, chicagos charming." >> hey, chicago. >> more likely itll be "wow, chicago" or "oh, chicago." theyll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesnt ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. its big, its outgoing, its tough, its opinionated and everybodys got a story. ♪ i took a walk throug...

"Opposable Thumbs" book author Matt Singer spoke with ABC7 about the legacy Roger Ebert and Gene Ebert.

Skip to main content Desperately Seeking Susan Director Susan Seidelman on Casting Madonna and Shooting the Sex and the City Pilot Pat Saperstein, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail For a certain generation of women, director Susan Seidelman’s second feature, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” is a formative text, an indelible record of New York in the ‘80s, from Madonna’s iconic hair bow to Rosanna Arquette’s spirited performance as the lead. With its cast of New York underground habitué...

>> destiny pictures presents a story of opportunity. a new story. a new beginning. one of peace. two men, two leaders, one destiny. a story about a special moment in time. when a man is presented with one chance that may never be repeated. what will he choose? to show vision or leadership? or not. >> and just in case you are actually wondering, that is real. that actually was shown by president trump apparently to kim jong-un and then also was shown at the press conference. siskel and ebert sadl...

My chin and went to the doctor and it turned out to be associated with thyroid cancer. >> he was in the hospital maybe two days at the most, ready to get out, went back to the show. >> a few years later, i went in for a routine scan to check for any new problems. the news was not good. cancer had been seen in my right lower jawbone. >> again, he had surgery. we were going home. >> we were all packed up and ready to go home. just like today. chaz and i had really liked, i wanted to play this song...

And im speaking to everyone eavesdropping right now. lets overthrow the country. >> protestants, someone who sort of wants a religion. we go back a few years together. >> were real, we get down and get dirty. >> ill take a baptist. ill go back 6,000 years. somebodys got to have some goddamn passion. >> this week on siskel and ebert. >> you said it a little too fast. the holiday season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature,

Reviews are relative. benji the hunted is not one tenth of the film that the keurig film is. you know it, and you should be ashamed of yourself. >> they almost didnt care what anyone else thought about anything as long as they could try to persuade the other. and im not just talking about movie reviews. im talking about anything in life. the tie youre wearing, what you think of that person, a book, a restaurant. >> when there wasnt a disagreement, the coin of the realm was the quarter. its hard ...

Brosnan and michael caine. >> and we have a third thriller, too, if youre interested. >> what do you mean, two thrillers? how about something like this? its thriller week on siskel and ebert and weve got three big ones. >> ready? >> i guess we have to rewrite it. >> you cant ad-lib, gene. >> you read it then. you ad leb it. ill do nothing. let him do whatever he wants. its thriller week and weve got three new ones. >> not to have energy up. >> why dont you read both parts. >> id like that. >> i ...

Movie like that. >> not like apocalypse? theyre going to like the late show, they have kills like that every night in black and white starring john wayne. >> they get into the cross talk, the camera would stop, they would still be at it. >> te they felt it in their soul, they could still show them thearier of their ways, the folly of their thinking. >> benji the hunted exhausted me. it was the first time i wanted to tell a dog to slow down and smell the flowers. >> your review is a cynical revie...

Try to get laughs by standing there and ad-libbing when somebody else is trying to talk. >> thats right. >> the movie studios went from helping us to hating us, to fearing us. >> circulations of all of the newspaper critics and all of the magazines could not match the reach of the show at its height. it became quite clear very often that the film companies cared a lot about roger and gene seeing it, but not so much about the rest of us. >> two thumbs up became everything for a big hollywood movi...