THE BALCONY IS CLOSED: Roger Ebert blogs about the end of "Ebert & Roeper at the Movies", and the early days with his dear friend Gene Siskel. Did Gene and I hate each other? Yes. Did we love each other? Yes.
One strong memory of the show? Their 1987 year-end list, when both men had high praise for a movie I had never heard of called House of Games, and I decided I just had to see it, and have more-or-less been a Mamet fanboy ever since. That, and their constant championing of Hoop Dreams in 1994. It was always about quality, never about pumping the big commercial releases, and as a movie fan I am so grateful they used their thumbs for good.
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