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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
Sarah Vowell
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Sarah Vowell
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 27
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