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This week, we celebrate film critic legends Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and remember the late Patrick Stewart.
This week is all about commemorating legends, kicking off with the cultural icons who came before us. Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert will be remembered with their own statues in Chicago, and The Beatles will be getting an expanded museum. Nicolas Cage’s transformation to play the football coach hall-of-famer John Madden has us rolling on the floor, while rumors about the casting of the late Dolly Parton for her biopic are not so funny. And we remember the iconic Patrick Stewart, best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Beloved film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert will be immortalized in a life-sized bronze sculpture in Chicago. The pair were long-time Windy City newspaper critics (Siskel at the Chicago Tribune and Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times) before joining forces on the syndicated show Sneak Previews and later At the Movies and Siskel & Ebert.
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