Youth will be served
Who would have the cojones to think themselves the television heirs of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert? Apparently, it's not what you know, but who you know - or who your ancestors are.
Disney announced that the new hosts of the retooled "At the Movies" will be Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
Lyons reviews movies for the cable channel E!, and is the son of critic Jeffrey Lyons, who followed Siskel and Ebert when they left PBS - and now co-hosts a rival movie-review show with British bombshell Alison Bailes.
Mankiewicz is a host on Turner Classics Movies, and has a long Hollywood heritage: his grandfather, Herman Mankiewicz, won an Oscar with Orson Welles for the screenplay of "Citizen Kane"; his great-uncle Joseph won Oscars for directing and writing "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve"; and his cousin Tom is a screenwriter whose credits include "Superman" and three James Bond movies ("Diamonds Are Forever," "Live and Let Die," "The Man With the Golden Gun").
Disney announced that the new hosts of the retooled "At the Movies" will be Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
Lyons reviews movies for the cable channel E!, and is the son of critic Jeffrey Lyons, who followed Siskel and Ebert when they left PBS - and now co-hosts a rival movie-review show with British bombshell Alison Bailes.
Mankiewicz is a host on Turner Classics Movies, and has a long Hollywood heritage: his grandfather, Herman Mankiewicz, won an Oscar with Orson Welles for the screenplay of "Citizen Kane"; his great-uncle Joseph won Oscars for directing and writing "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve"; and his cousin Tom is a screenwriter whose credits include "Superman" and three James Bond movies ("Diamonds Are Forever," "Live and Let Die," "The Man With the Golden Gun").
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I don't know what kind of critic Mankiewicz will be, but isn't Lyones the guy who thought that "I am Legend" was one of the best movies ever made?
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