so I happen to be up and catch this ebert & roeper or whatever… and they happen to be doing this jiminy glick movie… and earlier they were talking about this house of wax with paris hilton… and the roeper guy is saying like it’s too bad there wasn’t more gratuitous nudity and you could see roger looking at him kinda missing his ol buddy siskel… but yeah… he probably doesn’t like roeper too much. Now the jiminy review comes up and you can tell rodger knows the whole character is pretty much based on him before he lost the weight and well he gives it the thumbs down… and says how he watches 500 movies a year and doesn’t have time to watch tv and didn’t know about jiminy and how he got interviewed by him when they were doing the movie and didn’t know who he was. Then roeper is saying well I can’t wait for the dvd to come out because it’ll be worth it for that lost footage. I don’t know but I was cracking up. Martin short was cracking me up when I seen him getting interviewed by mary hart for et last week… he is funny with that character.
ha ha… I found a review he did of that movie… at least he’s got a sense of humor about it.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050505/REVIEWS/50426002
*Jiminy Glick in La La Wood
BY ROGER EBERT / May 5, 2005
The problem with Jiminy Glick is that he doesn’t know who he is. Or, more precisely, Martin Short doesn’t know who he is. Jiminy is allegedly a chubby TV news entertainment reporter from Butte, Mont., who alternates between fawning over celebrities, insulting them and not quite knowing who they are. I can sympathize. When I ran into Jiminy at the Toronto Film Festival, I didn’t know he was Martin Short; the makeup job was masterful, and I hadn’t seen the character in his earlier TV manifestations. One of the side-effects of seeing 500 movies a year is that you miss a lot of TV.*
[Please see the linked article for the rest. - SkipMagic]
I’ve seen the Jiminy Glick TV show, and I’ve been a fan of Ebert’s for years and years, and it never occurred to me for one moment that Glick was a parody of Ebert. I’m gonna need a little more convincing, I’m afraid.
The mayor of New York in Godzilla, though, was quite clearly a parody of him. The subtlety of naming the character “Mayor Ebert” did not elude my keen eye.
Yeah, he’s not a parody. Other than Glick being fat, and Ebert previously being fat (ho ho ho) there’s not a similarity to be found.