This land was made for you and me - Roger Ebert
As the mighty tide swept the land on Tuesday night, I was transfixed. As the pundits pondered red states and blue states, projections and exit polls, I was swept with emotion. Not because America was “electing its first Black president.” That comes a little late in the day. It was because America was electing the right President. Our long
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Roger Ebert and The Wachowskis watch The Godfather
It was a night out of your dreams. We’d been invited by James Bond, the famed projection wizard, to see the new Kinowerks post-production and screening facility he designed and built on Chicago’s north side. You have James to thank if you’ve ever attended the Grant Park outdoor film
An incident at Toronto - Roger Ebert
By Roger Ebert If it were up to me, you would never have heard about the incident at the Toronto Film Festival on the morning of Sept. 6 when a fellow critic whacked me with a rolled-up
Yuk! ‘At the Movies’ gets new hosts Lyons, Mankiewicz
From AP: Over the years, TV’s best-known movie review show has gone from hosts Siskel and Ebert to Ebert and Roeper to Roeper and guest critics — and now it’s Lyons and Mankiewicz. Ben Lyons, a Hollywood reporter
Statement from Roger Ebert on leaving TV show
After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program named “Siskel & Ebert” and then “Ebert & Roeper” in a new direction. I will no longer be associated with it. The show was a wonderful experience. It was a great loss to me when
Ebert and Roeper leaving popular movie review show
From Yahoo: Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert says he’s cutting ties with the television show that he and the late Gene Siskel made famous. In an e-mail to The Associated Press on Monday, Ebert said Disney-ABC Domestic
Roger Ebert. Behind The Thumb, the E! True Hollywood Story.
One of the guys who made it look that way, who made the crazy idea that movie critics could thrive on TV seem like a no-brainer, recently announced his departure from the airwaves. On April 1 Roger Ebert published a letter to readers of The Chicago Sun-Times that was essentially a farewell to the long-running,
Thumbs way up; Roger Ebert Returns
“I am at last returning to the movie beat. After my current stay at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, I’m looking forward to opening night of my annual film festival at the University of Illinois on April
