There was a time when Roger Ebert was, simply ... a slightly rumpled, sweater-vested guy with glasses, paired off with the much taller, balding Siskel (who, of course, was “the bald one”).

CHICAGO Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood ... bald one. Ebert favored blue sweater vests and khakis. After his surgeries, he switched to black turtlenecks and white, film ...

During the late 1980s, when his movie review show with fellow film critic Roger Ebert was called “Sneak Previews,” Gene Siskel would occasionally take cat naps under the table in their station ...

It was reviewing movies that made Roger Ebert as famous and wealthy as many of the stars who felt the sting or caress of his pen or were the recipients of his televised thumbs-up or thumbs-down ...

There was a time when Roger Ebert was, simply ... a slightly rumpled, sweater-vested guy with glasses, paired off with the much taller, balding Siskel (who, of course, was “the bald one”).