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Apr.08.2013
"Robert Egbert died."
This was a clueless co-worker making the announcement I'd already heard hours before via a friend's text. It grated on my nerves so badly I responded from my desk loudly, "RoGER EBERT, goddammit!"
The news of his passing was surprising, to say the least. He had only...
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Apr.08.2013
Good, bad, indifferent, and sometimes just plain nasty. Book reviews come in all flavors and how authors deal with them is important -- and sometimes crucial -- to how the author is viewed. I'd like to say there are rules, but there aren't. It would be nice if readers and authors could agree to...
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Apr.08.2013
I realized this weekend that I would not be the person I am without Roger Ebert. It was quite a revelation to me. Few have influenced me as much.
I remember seeing his reviews when I was a child. For the first time, I realized that film was something more than entertainment. That it was both...
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Apr.04.2013
One of the most prolific critics of cinema passed away on Thursday. Roger Ebert was also a fine journalist and screenwriter, who was described by Forbes Magazine as the most powerful pundit in America. He was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, as well as, the first to be...
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Apr.04.2013
Every Sunday there was one tradition in my house: If you're thinking church, well you're wrong on that front. No, I watched Siskel and Ebert.One was from the Chicago Tribune (Siskel) and Ebert was from the Chicago Sun Times. After they introduced each other, the ball got rollign. They were there to...
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Feb.24.2013
There is something wonderful about finding a really good review of a book I've written and published, especially since it was my first self-published effort. I have had my share of awful reviews from people who "couldn't get into the book" and a few toilet reviews from people who didn't read the...
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Sep.15.2012
A long-term illness is like living in a cardboard box. I’m looking out through a proscenium of dusty brown corrugated walls, flexible, but strong and thick enough so they can’t be torn apart, only weakened. There’s a dry mustiness about everything.
The illness filtered into me during twilight, on...
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Sep.15.2012
Photo: Movie poster, from its Wikipedia site
See this movie on cable for the story, the emotion, the great framed shots, the special effects, and the film nostalgia. It pays homage, in ways small and large, to the following films:
--E.T.
--Close Encounters
--The Thing...
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Mar.31.2012
photo: Noomi Rapace, about to terrify. From rogerebert.com.
Overall this second film of the series was better than the very good first film, which makes sense, as the second novel in the series was superior to the first. I suspect that the American version of the second...
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Jan.11.2012
Photo: Movie poster, from its Wikipedia page.
Very visually appealing, fast-paced, intelligent, fun and styled film that stretches the limits of Conan Doyle's character--but not as far as you'd think. You'd have to read the stories to appreciate this, but Basil Rathbone's...
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