A review by jaygabler
Opposable Thumbs by Matt Singer

funny informative fast-paced

5.0

Siskel and Ebert only hugged once.

It was 1985, and they were backstage waiting to be interviewed by Johnny Carson for the first time. "They started playing 'The Tonight Show' theme," Ebert told a journalist later, "and we were scared." (The critic added a colorful word explaining exactly how scared.)

Matt Singer shares that story in Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel and Ebert Changed Movies Forever. The book's subtitle is a little misleading, since Singer is less interested in how the two men changed movies than in how they changed each other.