Let’s hope there’s no truth that old “these things come in threes” adage. Exactly a week ago, I rounded up reactions to the death of film critic Anderson Jones; today, I’m collecting responses to the death of film critic Joel Siegel.

Siegel, who had been the house critic for ABC’s Good Morning America for the past 25 years, succumbed to colon cancer on Friday. He is remembered vividly by former college roommate Harry Shearer at the Huffington Post, who offers a few anecdotes in tribute to “the Joel Siegel that I knew: the pre-moustache Joel.” Siegel’s fellow cancer sufferer Roger Ebert quotes from an email in which Siegel admitted to actually appearing on camera with “a pouch in my right hand pumping chemo into a port in my chest.” Ebert also quotes Siegel’s wife, Ena Swansea who says her husband was “so sad that true film criticism was being replaced by ‘entertainment news,’ when they only get interviews if their review is laudatory, or they don’t review at all.