He was the last of his type. No media critic of any kind will ever have that kind of influence.
Did he die again?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3004230/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004206/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004205/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004233/posts
He outlived Siskel by 14 years, despite by born 4 years earlier. He had a good run...
I must disagree, this guy would give away plot twists and once gave away a movie ending and that’s when I stopped watching.
I preferred Ebert's TV show. I enjoyed the clips back in the days when that was the only place you could find them.
Condolences to family and friends of Roger Ebert
The book was released 2011. Maybe he found this out really late...and, unlike some critics, at least didn’t automatically dump on a film to make himself feel better.
The Chicago Sun-Times published a tribute that ended with a fitting quote from his memoir “Life Itself: A Memoir”: “’Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”
Siskel was better and Ebert was one of the more obnoxious and uninformed celebrity liberals.
Even though he has died, years from now you will be able to check active voter roles in Chicago and there he will be, Roger Ebert, Democrat.
I guess ole Roger isn’t mocking all those Catholic altar boys (as he used to be, himself) now.
May God have mercy on his soul. Anyway.
RIP
I cannot judge his soul, I could not stand the man.
The balcony is closed.
Poor bastard couldn’t eat solid food for the last several years of this life.
He was a a huge lib but I wouldn’t have wished that on him.