Thursday, April 04, 2013
Roger Ebert, R. I. P.
NYTimes.com: Roger Ebert, the popular film critic and television co-host who along with his fellow reviewer and sometime sparring partner Gene Siskel could lift or sink the fortunes of a movie with their trademark thumbs up or thumbs down, died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 70.
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Oh no. My mother always wanted me to marry him--and even joked that he didn't get married until after I did because then he knew he'd lost me! I loved reading his reviews--my favorite compilation of his is I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, a collection of reviews for movies rated one star or less.
/Farewell Roger. Say hi to Gene.
I met him once at a Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, and chatted with him about Russ Meyer, for whom he wrote several screenplays. He seemed nice if not surprisingly guarded. He liked movies and took them on their own terms, unlike his partner Siskel, who insisted on discussing the film he wished had been made instead.
I believe he and Ed Gorman were friends.
Ebert was a fighter in his later years, never gave up who he was or what he did, and I admire him for it.
I admire him, too. He and Ed were SF fans together back in the '50s and traveled to at least one convention together, I think.
Although politically I never saw him publicly make an unexpected observation, movie-critic wise he often did.
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