From The Ebert Club, Roger Ebert’s newsletter movie-club, where he talked about all things movies: Funeral services for Roger Ebert will be held Monday, April 8, 2013, at 10:00 am the Holy Name Cathedral, 730 N. State St., in Chicago. The service will be open to friends and fans, though seating will be limited. Open …
As I work on polishing up my Best of 2010 entry, I was treated to this interview on CBS Sunday Morning with Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert, and his wonderful wife Chaz. I grew up watching Siskel and Ebert At the Movies in the ’80s… I think it was originally on Sunday morning …
OK, I’ll say it right now: Roger Ebert inspired me to become a film critic. In junior high and high school, I would stay up late to watch Siskel & Ebert (or whatever the latest incantation of their long-running syndicated movie review show was called at the time), not only to get the latest scoop …
9-8-2007 That’s right. You read correctly: Roger Ebert. After several Ebert-free years in a row, and my fears that our paths would never again cross at a film fest of otherwise, it happened. Roger and me. Same theater. Across-the-aisle buddies. But I’m getting ahead of myself… I began the day very early, but not early …