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Interred at Westlawn Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Once told David Letterman that if he were trapped on a deserted island with only one film to watch, that film would be 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Considered the film Cannonball Run II (1984) to be the worst movie he had ever seen. Hated nothing worse than trying to watch a movie while a baby in the theatre is crying. Hates any mother who would bring an infant to a movie theatre and is willing to pay $10 to any usher who would chuck the baby out of the theatre along with its negligent mother. Was one of the few critics to give the Oscar-winning classic masterpiece The Silence of the Lambs (1991) a negative review. Grew up in the Chicago North Shore town of Glencoe, Illinois. Graduated from Culver Military Academy (Battery A) in 1963. Of the three At The Movies hosts (Siskel/Ebert/Roeper), he was the only one that wasn't employed by the Chicago Sun-Times. While at Yale, he often dressed as Batman and paid people surprise visits. He was able to keep his identity secret for a week. His favorite movie of all-time was Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Just over a year before his death, the special edition 15th Anniversary DVD of The Thing (1982) has star Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter use his famous line in the commentary, at the end. "See you at the movies!".