Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)
Red Heat/A World Apart/Rikky and Pete/Poltergeist III/Wings of Desire (1988)
Gene Siskel: Self - Host
Quotes
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Roger Ebert - Host : [reviewing "Poltergeist III"] The screenplay for this movie is also amazing, because it makes a serious tactical error: It uses too many scenes in which the characters incessantly cry out for each other...
Gene Siskel - Host : Oh, yes.
Roger Ebert - Host : "Carol Anne! Carol Anne!" "Bruce Bruce!" "Patricia! Patricia!" "Carol Anne!" "Bruce!" Finally, the mo- the night that I saw it, even the audience was joining in: "Carol Anne! Carol Anne!" "Bruce!" I mean...
Gene Siskel - Host : You hit it...
Roger Ebert - Host : ...I must've heard the name "Carol Anne" a THOUSAND times!
Gene Siskel - Host : Now, I'm disappointed... I'm pleased that you, we're getting into the dynamic of this show.
[Roger laughs]
Gene Siskel - Host : I'm pleased that you were smart enough to pick up on "Carol Anne".
Roger Ebert - Host : Thank you very much.
Gene Siskel - Host : But I was hoping that you wouldn't, 'cause I was going to do my "Carol Anne" imitation.
Roger Ebert - Host : Oh, good. Then we'll be denied that.
Gene Siskel - Host : Because I was sitting there, "I wonder how many times the name Carol Anne is said in this movie." My guess? You guess, just in a second. Think. A hundred?
Roger Ebert - Host : A hundred, or more.
Gene Siskel - Host : A HUNDRED times I heard the name "Carol Anne! Carol Anne!"
Roger Ebert - Host : Up and down the staircase!
Gene Siskel - Host : "Carol Anne! Carol Anne!"
Roger Ebert - Host : "Carol Anne, Carol Anne" as he goes up. Then behind him is...
Gene Siskel - Host : WHY couldn't she...
Roger Ebert - Host : ...Nancy Allen, his wife. "Bruce Bruce Bruce", as she goes up.
Gene Siskel - Host : How about, why couldn't they just have said one time in the movie, as a joke: "Carol." I would've loved that. The movie stinks.
Roger Ebert - Host : It wouldn't have been that great of a joke, either.