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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic from the Chicago Sun-Times. His reviews are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and Canada. The American Film Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have awarded him honorary degrees and the Online... show more

Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic from the Chicago Sun-Times. His reviews are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and Canada. The American Film Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have awarded him honorary degrees and the Online Film Critics Society named his Web site (rogerebert.com) the best online movie review site
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Birth date: June 18, 1942
Died: April 04, 2013
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riley
riley rated it 11 years ago
I used to read Ebert a lot while he was still alive. It's not that I necessarily agreed with him all the time - I find that he both overrates some well-made children's movies, and falls into that typical critic's cliche of thinking the values of his generation are universal (more on that in a second...
TCWriter
TCWriter rated it 11 years ago
The FakeAPStyle twitter feed is one of the true jewels found on Twitter. A spoof of the AP Stylebook feed, it’s hilarious, in part because the authors are working journalists.They know where journalism’s skeletons are buried, and the resulting humor doesn’t just entertain, it also cuts like a scalpe...
My Book Blog
My Book Blog rated it 12 years ago
Roger Ebert's scathing reviews are hilarious. Even if I liked the movie he's trashing, it's fun to read his views. Battlefield Earth was a hated movie but for some reason I liked it. I don't understand why Ebert kept going on about how nasty the Psychlos looked. They're aliens, and they are evil. I'...
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it 12 years ago
Roger Ebert began working on his memoirs during the years of his illness, and Life Itself is a volume of “memoirs” in the old-fashioned sense--an individual sharing his lifetime of personal stories, but not necessarily following the chronological structure of autobiography--rather than the more limi...
popsiclesinbed
popsiclesinbed rated it 12 years ago
This is the first traditional type of memoir I have ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It was like getting to know Roger Ebert.
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