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Fast
Facts
Birth name: Eugene Kal Siskel
Birth date: January 26, 1946
Birth place: Chicago, Illinois
Occupation: Journalist/Film
critic
Trademark: "What
do you know for sure?"
Death date: February 20, 1999
Death place: Chicago, Illinois
Burial location: Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 200 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Favorite film: "Saturday Night Fever"
Favorite sports team: Chicago Bulls
Did you know?
• "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) was Siskel's favorite movie of all time.
• In 1978, he purchased the white polyester suit worn by actor John Travolta in the film "Saturday Night Fever" for a price of $2,000. Seventeen years later, the suit sold for $145,000 at a Christie's auction.
• Considered the film "Cannonball Run II" (1984) to be the worst film he had ever seen.
• The only time he ever left the theater before the end of a movie was during the screening of the Chris Farley/David Spade film, "Tommy Boy" (1995).
• He once told David Letterman that if he were ever trapped on a deserted island with only one film to watch, that film would be "2001: A Space Odyssey."
• Spy Magazine once declared Siskel and Ebert to be the country's most influential film critics, with Siskel being given a slight edge over Ebert (Ebert griped that Siskel had badgered the Spy folks into submission), and the two made Entertainment Weekly's "Most Powerful People in Hollywood" lists.
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