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Joel Siegel

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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox person Joel Steven Siegel (July 7, 1943 – June 29, 2007) was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. The winner of multiple Emmy Awards,<ref name="cnn" /> Siegel also worked as a radio disc jockey and an advertising copywriter.<ref name="wchstv" />

Early life and educationEdit

Born to a Jewish family of Romanian descent,<ref>"Q&A With Entertainment Editor Joel Siegel", ABC News, June 30, 2003</ref> Siegel was raised in Los Angeles. He graduated cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles.<ref name="cnn">"Movie critic Joel Siegel dies" CNN.com. Accessed 2007-06-29.</ref> His Romanian-born grandmother from Botoşani survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in March 1911.<ref>Joel Siegel, "Lessons for Dylan: From Father to Son", PublicAffairs Books, 2003</ref> During college, Siegel worked to register black voters in Georgia during the Civil Rights Movement, and he spoke frequently of having met Martin Luther King Jr. He also worked as a joke writer for Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was at the Ambassador Hotel the night the senator was assassinated. According to some reports, he also led student opposition to the construction of a football stadium on campus.<ref>Crowe, Jerry. "Who would have guessed? Rick Neuheisel has UCLA playing as well as USC." Los Angeles Times. November 18, 2009</ref>

CareerEdit

Early workEdit

Siegel worked at a range of jobs throughout the 1960s, often concentrating on the civil rights movement. In the late '60s, before moving to New York, he worked as an advertising agency copy-writer and producer. While working in advertising for Carson/Roberts Advertising, he invented and named ice cream flavors for Baskin-Robbins.<ref name="wchstv">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> These flavors were: German Chocolate Cake; Peaches & Cream; Pralines & Cream; Blueberry Cheesecake; Strawberry Cheesecake; Green Cheesecake; Red, White and Blueberry; and Chilly Burgers.<ref name="nndb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He began working in radio as a disc jockey and newscaster, while continuing to freelance in advertising. Through his freelance work, he was offered the book review position with the Los Angeles Times.

Siegel's essays in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine were spotted by a CBS executive, and Siegel was hired as a feature correspondent for WCBS-TV in New York. Joel created signature work teamed with a producer who later became an executive at WABC-TV's Eyewitness News. When Siegel's producer moved, he offered Siegel a featured on-air position, and Joel accepted. Siegel proposed to Eyewitness News management that he become a film and theatre critic. He suggested that he would innovate the form by using brief clips from the movie or show being reviewed as drop-ins into his reviews, working them into his scripts as gags to create a new, witty form of review. Siegel, during his years at WCBS-TV, also created features on the AM radio side for WCBS (880) known as Joel Siegel's New York.

In 1986, Spy magazine derided Siegel as "the poor man's Gene Shalit", who relied "heavily on alliteration."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Good Morning America and later careerEdit

In 1981, he joined Good Morning America (GMA) as a film critic.<ref name="cnn" /> While Siegel worked at his reviewing, he wrote the book for The First, a Broadway musical based on the story of Jackie Robinson,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Joel Siegel" on WABC-TV New York website. Accessed 30 June 2007.</ref> for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1982. This marks him as the only drama critic to receive this nomination.<ref name="wchstv" /> In 1999, Siegel was also one of the many guest critics on Roger Ebert's show At The Movies as a replacement for Gene Siskel following his death. Siegel was also a good friend of Roger Ebert.

Personal lifeEdit

MarriagesEdit

Siegel's second wife, Jane Kessler, died from a brain tumor in 1982. In 1991, he joined with the actor Gene Wilder to found Gilda's Club, a nonprofit organization that provided social support for cancer patients and their families in honor of Wilder's wife, Gilda Radner.<ref>Dennis McLellan, "Joel Siegel, 63; film critic on ABC morning news show", Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2007.</ref>

On June 21, 1996, Siegel married his fourth wife, artist Ena Swansea. In 1997, at 53 years, he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. One week after being diagnosed, Siegel found out he would be a father for the first time. He wrote the book Lessons for Dylan which shares the ups and downs of his life with his young son, as he might not live long enough to relate those stories in person.<ref>"Lessons for Dylan" (excerpt from Siegel's 2003 book)</ref> Siegel underwent surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. He welcomed his newborn son, Dylan Thomas Jefferson Swansea Siegel, home on the same day he completed his chemotherapy treatments. Two years later, a CAT scan revealed a lesion on Siegel's left lung. After a pulmonary lobectomy and additional chemotherapy, Siegel continued to work on GMA.

ActivismEdit

He was outspoken on the subject of colon cancer, and in 2005, spoke at a meeting of C-Change, a group of cancer experts from government, business, and nonprofit sectors, chaired by former president George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He testified before the Senate during Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, March 2005. "I came here from New York City this morning hoping that I would encourage someone to have a colonoscopy so that they would not have to go through what I went through", he told a Senate panel.<ref>ABC News: Siegel Passionate About Cancer Awareness - Accessed 2 July 2007</ref> In June 2005, Siegel published a letter in the peer-reviewed cancer medicine journal, The Oncologist entitled, "One at a Time". It shares his cancer diagnosis and experiences to that date.<ref>Siegel, Joel. "One at a Time", The Oncologist 10 (7): 558.</ref>

On May 10, 2007, less than two months before his death, he spoke before the CEO Roundtable on Cancer,<ref>CEO Roundtable on Cancer</ref> an association of corporate executives that was formed when former president George H. W. Bush asked corporate America to do something "bold and venturesome" about cancer. Bush and his wife Barbara were in the audience when Joel spoke on May 10 at the Essex House in New York City. He began and ended his presentation by saying, "I want to thank you for what you are doing for cancer patients."Template:Citation needed

DeathEdit

Siegel died from metastatic colon cancer on June 29, 2007, shortly before what would have been his 64th birthday.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following his death, Roger Ebert wrote a tribute to Joel and stated in the tribute that Joel was "a brave man, and a hell of a nice guy."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

AwardsEdit

Siegel received five New York Emmy Awards and a public service award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for general excellence in individual reporting.<ref name="cnn"/>

WorksEdit

  • Siegel, Joel. Lessons for Dylan: On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me. PublicAffairs, 2003. Template:ISBN

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