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[Ya-ta Boy]

I just checked his site to read this week's movie reviews. It says he had emergency surgery and is in stable condition.

Hope the old boy gets better soon. He's the best movie critic going.

[Rteacher]

Yeah, hopefully he pulls through. Many people recognize his expertise as a film reviewer, but not that many associate him with this:

Film & Disc Review, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Cinema Classics Collection
by Rusty White
reviewed: 2006-06-11

When I was 11-years-old, I was allowed to ride the bus by myself to downtown Memphis to go see "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" at the Strand Theater. It was my first trip downtown alone. The adventure included gawking at a movie poster outside the theater. The poster for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" featured a buxom nude woman underwater covering her nipples with her hands. Needless to say, I did not get to return to the Strand Theater to see that film. But the memory of seeing that poster sure fueled my imagination.
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" was exploitation director Russ Meyer's first studio production. Someone at FOX thought it would be a good idea to make a sequel to their hit "Valley of the Dolls." They also thought it would be a good idea to hire famed nudie director Russ Meyer to helm the sequel. This was the 60s folks.

The script was written by a young film critic named Roger Ebert. He and Meyers created a tale of sex, drugs and rock and roll. When all was said and done, the filmmakers distanced themselves from the original film and said this was not a sequel, but rather a film that went beyond where "Valley of the Dolls" had gone. That it does.

The film was released and garnered amazing critical praise. It made many Best Films of 1970 lists. "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" follows the exploits of an all-girl rock band called The Carrie Nations. The songs written for the movie actually rock. A fact that adds the right touch of reality in an otherwise fantasy filled film...
http://einsiders.com/reviews/dvd/show_dvd.php?review_dvd=787

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[rawiri]

Know what i like about him?, he totally dissed that michelle phiffer movie where she go's and teaches english in the ghetto...suspicious minds or whatever it was called.

He bagged the movie on the premise that teaching english to "bad" kids shouldn't be done the way the movie portrayed teaching. He went to somewhere in africa on a teaching fellowship(could be wrong about the particulars) and taught shakespare as opposed to watering it down the way the movie did.

Thats all.

[dogbert]

So does this mean Siskel's going to be doing the show solo for the time being?

[Dev]

[huffdaddy]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Woland]

The new other guy is Richard Roeper, who writes a pop culture column in the Sun-Times.

I wish Roger well, too, not only because I enjoy his regular reviews, but also for his great movies series (where he reviews great films of the past) and for his Answer Man column (where people can write in with questions about the movies which he answers). These alternate eah Sunday in the Sun-Times (and on his webpage: www.rogerebert.com). While The Answer Man column often has serious discussions, it is also often very funny, as this example shows (note: I am American):

Q. Please help before it's too late! There is still time for the producers of the animated movie "Barnyard" to redub the soundtrack. No wonder Americans are becoming known as the world's stupidest people: apparently we don't even know that milk comes from mommies, not daddies. The brain trust behind this movie spent a fortune to animate "cows" with very prominent udders -- all of which are dubbed with MALE VOICES. Oh, the horror.

Eva Sandor, Chicago

A. Good gravy! I looked at the trailer, and saw a cow, its udder clearly visible, speaking in a male voice. The cows in the movie include Otis (Kevin James), Eddie (S. Scott Bullock), Budd (John DiMaggio) and Ben (gravel-voiced Sam Elliott). There is one girl cow, Bessie, voiced by Wanda Sykes. I'd like to hit Bessie for the 411 on wassup up with those he-cows.

[Yaya]

[JLarter]

Being a film critic has to be the best and easiest job in the world. Watch a film and then comment on it, usually saying the opposite of the general public!!!