(September 6, 2022 at 2:12 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were on a flight one time, and Gene handed a piece of paper to a flight attendant and said, “Please give this note to Roger.” The note read, “Mr. Ebert, would you like to see the cockpit?” Gene had signed it, “The Captain.” Roger was quite pleased that the captain would invite him—and not Gene—to tour the cockpit. He walked up to the cockpit door and started knocking on it. All of a sudden, another flight attendant grabbed him and scolded, “You can’t go in there! Nobody goes in the cockpit!” She had to escort him back to his seat. Gene was rolling up and down the aisle with laughter.
https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cult...tory_.html
My favourite Siskel and Ebert story is how Gene Siskel was bitching about the lousy birthday gift he got from Ebert - an old, dinged up bulb horn.
It was actually the horn used by Harpo in four Marx Brothers films.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
