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Two Chicago Media Legends Fade

Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert has pulled out of the TV show that was once “Siskel and Ebert.” I watched “Siskel and Ebert” routinely growing up and it’s probably one of the reasons I studied broadcasting at Northwestern.

The good news: Roger and Gene Siskel’s widow own the rights to “two thumbs up.” Ebert says they’re “discussing possibilities, and plan to continue the show’s tradition.”

And one of my heroes — former Tribune baseball columnist Jerome Holtzman, who invented the ‘save’, died over the weekend.

I grew up reading Holtzman’s columns in the Trib before school, and had the pleasure of interviewing him two years ago for a wacky Forbes.com story about sports stadiums.

Someone Please Do This

jakehurwitz:

I think it’d be really funny to dress in tattered dirty clothes and then out of a forest to a couple of people and demand, “What year is this!?”

When they answer, “2008.” You look away and mumble “My God.” Then run back into the woods.

Sign me up.

New Feature: Dan Frommers Changing The World

Daniel Frommer is a 36-year-old lawyer for The Walt Disney Internet Group in California and an avid golfer. Until recently, he could have never imagined he might have a hand in influencing the lives of impoverished young golfers in Africa.

“Ugandan Boys Receive Gift of Golf,” Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2008