JOEL SIEGEL: RIP or GOOD RIDDANCE?

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PLEASE LET THE RECORD SHOW I MADE THE FIRST CELEBRITY DEATH POLL

Poll Results

Option	Votes
TOO SOON	11
RIP	6
GOOD RIDDANCE	4

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

HA. I was just coming to post something, since George Noory just announced this.

― kingfish, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

billy joel.. still alive

― billstevejim, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

"**** DEATH OF THE YEAR!"

― abanana, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

"TOO SOON" option = A+

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:36 (eighteen years ago)

would vote again

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:36 (eighteen years ago)

je crois que RIP

i was watching news tonight and dude did 'oh noes joel siegel we so sad you died you were our friend' segment and i don't know if it's i'm a girl and hormonal or what but i was on the verge of tearing up! and i never even watched his reviews!!!

― tehresa, Saturday, 30 June 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

He apparently was in many ways a good guy -- civil rights work, jokewriter for Robert Kennedy (!), I'm sorry he's prematurely dead.

Professionally, a quote whore and shill for Hollywood shit.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 30 June 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit, i had Joel Siegel confused with michael medved for a minute there.

― kingfish, Saturday, 30 June 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

"PLEASE LET THE RECORD SHOW I MADE THE FIRST CELEBRITY DEATH POLL"

let the record show i beat your ass by four hours dude

deathmarch of the joels

― deeznuts, Saturday, 30 June 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

next Siegel-related ILE poll:

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― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 30 June 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

btw Ebert's obituary was actually pretty touching.

― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 30 June 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

awful critic. sort of hard not to love, though.

― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 30 June 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

jimmy mod collier

― ghost rider, Saturday, 30 June 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Terrible critic -- if you can even call it filmcrit. But a prince of a fellow: at my former job at a bookstore he read from that book about overcoming cancer. Really gracious and chummy.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 30 June 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

If he was a good man, who gives a shit about the quality of his criticism?

― Eric H., Saturday, 30 June 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

If he was a good critic, who gives a shit about his qualities as a man.

Fixed.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 30 June 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

my mom interviewed him for her magazine a few months ago and said that he was a really nice, intelligent guy.

― poortheatre, Saturday, 30 June 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

shakey has "no comment" on this.

― sanskrit, Sunday, 1 July 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

Silent Bob to thread.

― M.V., Sunday, 1 July 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

criticizing his criticism would seem to be a massive missing of the point

― milo z, Sunday, 1 July 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think he's ever done anything to offend me outside of disagreeing on films, and generally in a (plausibly) rational way. so RIP.

― Gukbe, Sunday, 1 July 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't he the one that A) hated Kill Bill.... because it was too violent, and B) hailed Finding Nemo as the best film of the year?

― Stevie D, Sunday, 1 July 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

No, that was Momus.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 July 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

He also called Ray "The best film I ever saw." xpost

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 July 2007 05:31 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 1 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

If almost all of know him only as a 'reviewer,' then obv that's what counts for us. Diff story if one of his jokes had stopped Sirhan's bullet.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

that would be one helluva superpower, yes

― strongohulkington, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

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