Remembering Gene Siskel

I favored blue sweater-vests, because whenever I wore brown Gene said, "Buzz, the usual offer of 10 silver dollars to any cameraman who doesn't make Mr. Ebert look like a mudslide."

—excerpt from Roger Ebert blog entry

If you haven't read the moving Chris Jones Esquire article about Roger Ebert (and Ebert's response to the article), I highly recommend it.

In the article, Ebert gets quite upset when he finds that video of his special tribute show to Gene Siskel has been yanked from YOUTUBE (which is something that happens all too often on YOUTUBE because they are rights-Nazis). Perhaps Ebert just stumbled upon a dead link—or perhaps YOUTUBE reversed a decision—because the video is active again.

Here's the entirety of the show, in three parts:







... and on the lighter side of the news, i want 2 go 2 here.