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So now the show will be known as At the Movies with Ampersand?

Roeper just announced that he was unable to come to a new deal with Disney. He's gone after August. And so it goes.

In all seriousness Joe, you'd be fun to watch on that show.

The show has definitely lost its luster after Roger left. I don't hold Roeper in contempt like some people, but I miss the old back and forths between Roger and Gene (many of which are youtube and their site).

Thanks, Hopscotch, but I suspect they'd want someone who's a tad less obscure than me. Of course, maybe LexG and I could co-host, and do a special segment each week on which smokin' actress OWNS. Naturally, I would pick someone appropriate for the cover of More magazine, while LexG would pick someone apporpriate for the cover of Maxim.

the format is dead waiting to be reinvented. Just like nobody wanted to watch walter winchell in a close up on tv do his rat-tat-tat radio schtick, nobody wants to watch a couple of pastie middle age white guys pontificating about film. HOWEVER, the round table format, like that John Ridley AMC program or that Jon Favreau hosted Dinner For Five program, where a diverse cross section of film mavens discuss each film like it's a group therapy session would be cool beans.

They already tried that with Chris Gore of Film Threat, about 6 or so years ago. Young people who don't know what they are talking about... yeah, just what I want to see.

Looks like Joe was right. Current headline on CNN.com:

Ebert and Roeper leaving 'Ebert & Roeper'

something touching and loyal about the "thumbs up" trademark being co-owned by ebert & siskel's widow! Good for them for sticking to their guns.

There was always something tactless about them getting a trademark for what is a very old and widely used gesture. Was wondering when the day would come that someone gets "OK!" protected.

Think most fail to see the irony of copyright abuser ABC/Disney being denied its continued use on the show.

I was going to compare this to a great athlete retiring after going from a championship team to an also ran team; then to a minor league team; and then ending his sports career as a third base coach for a little league team, but it's not even that. The show's been a piece of living death for a long time now, even before Roger's health forced him off the air.

Before the internet, this series was vital for me as a movie fan, and there really wasn't anything like it on television for quite a long time. Others came and went, some better or more inventive, but "Siskel & Ebert" was a constant that I could rely on. And something even more important than their debates was the simple reality that they showed the clips (a lot more then than the show does now) from independent and lesser known movies when you literally couldn't see them anywhere else. That little taste was a godsend for my habit.

You guys are harsh; The show is still great week in and week out. ROEPER has more than risen to the occasion. Sure, Roger is THE BEST and is absolutely missed, but Roeper built some pretty fun give-and-take with Wilonsky, Scott, and Phillips. It's still a fun show. Why do you pricks have to hate on everything?

Christ, have some fun in your lives and stop taking yourself (and film) SO GODDAMN SERIOUSLY. Again, ROGER was down with ROEPER; Why do you schoolmarm book critic joyless dicks have to make a stink about it, especially eight years on?

Just today that PISSY ELDERLY MAN JEFF WELLS was badmouthing Roeper. Like his JOHN FROM DAYS OF LIVES-LOOKING ASS is such an esteemed film historian, and not just a mean, bitter old man who's done fuck-all with his life.

So, LexG, when do we take over as co-hosts and start hailing hot babes who OWN?

I'm down.

ROUND 1 -- HUNT VS. RICCI.

And video pick of the week = Leydon with Bingo Long's Traveling Whatever, and Lex with whatever mediocrity came out 2.5 months ago.

This is what I don't get:
I know Lex is awful. Everyone else knows Lex is awful. Even Lex himself knows he's awful (see above)...

yet nothing changes. Whatsupwitdat?

Leydon seems to like me. So does scooterzz. And movieman. And IO. And Jimmy the Gent, Don Murphy, IO, doug r, Gittes, Zahn, yancy, and plenty of others. Even Poland sends shoutouts. And I know he fields all my fan mail.

BOW, JEFF. RESPECT THE LEX.

"JOHN FROM DAYS OF LIVES-LOOKING ASS"

That made me choke. Good one.

Of course, that's only in that "who knows how old" picture he uses. In actual current oxygen the man is more a CLINT HOWARD FROM HALLOWEEN-LOOKING ASS.

I've always liked Ebert better in print anyway. If all he does is cart over the thumb to replace his (self-admitted) unreliable star system that would be fine. He still has opinions and still expresses them better than ever.

LB that post OWNED. Wells' bullshit 1990 pic is TOTALLY J. Black.

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