Ellsworth Toohey
That is so perfectly apt it can't be improved upon.
Ebert was a nasty bitter man who unfortunately died a nasty bitter death.
To my reading he wasn't a "critic" at all. He phoned in shallow left-leaning book reports for, as Mark Steyn more or less admits, a public looking for 20-second synopses.
Borges--I'd love to hear your rationale for elevating this sad old spinster to "renaissance" status.