Peter Biskind (born 1940) is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist and former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996.
[1][2] He attended Swarthmore College[3] and wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters, some of which were bestsellers.
[4] He and his wife Elizabeth Hess were both on the editorial staff of Seven Days magazine in the late 1970s.
According to Biskind's claims, Ebert declared: "Who the hell is Todd Haynes?"
Ebert denies this event ever took place, as did Christine Vachon, Biskind's alleged source of the anecdote.