# Joel Siegel Dead at 63
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 30, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994 "2007-06-30T00:47:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/1 "2007-06-30T00:47:47Z")
[Story](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3ib2e03aed98ee114030ac42bc25ad6efd)
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/2 "2007-06-30T00:58:51Z")
That’s sad. ☹ I didn’t know he was battling cancer, but then I haven’t watched him on television in a while. 63 is too young.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/3 "2007-06-30T01:38:58Z")
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> In 1991, Siegel and actor Gene Wilder founded Gilda’s Club, named for Wilder’s late wife, comedian Gilda Radner, a nonprofit organization offering emotional and social support for cancer patients and their families and friends.
Wow.
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/4 "2007-06-30T05:46:10Z")
Siegel was in my graduating class at Hamilton High in LA, and he showed promise then of being a boat-rocker. He and another student produced a short-lived “underground publication” called The Iconoclast which ripped a variety of sacred cows (keep in mind, this was about 1958). The two were suspended for a while for their troublemaking.
I wonder how much a copy of the one and only issue of The Iconoclast would bring today?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/5 "2007-06-30T06:57:09Z")
Well, Kevin Smith has a new dancing floor.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/6 "2007-07-01T07:59:05Z")
Sorry to hear that.
He seemed like a nice guy with a good sense of humor - however, I never really liked his reviews that much. Most of the recent ones were all puns and so short that by the time the review was over, I still had no idea if he liked the film or not.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/7 "2007-07-01T08:01:19Z")
Yeah, I always liked him himself but felt his reviews to be lightweight.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joel-siegel-dead-at-63/409994/8 "2007-07-01T23:29:38Z")
his son is just 9. it is a shame they didn’t have more time together.