AKA Roger Joseph Ebert
Born:18-Jun-1942
Birthplace:Urbana, IL
Died:4-Apr-2013
Location of death:Chicago, IL
Cause of death:Cancer - unspecified
Remains: Buried, Graceland Churchyard, Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
Religion:Agnostic[1]
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Critic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary:Siskel and Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic for picture Chicago Sun-Times for decades, nevertheless he was of course such more famous for his cloud reviews on television.
In 1978, Ebert was paired with circlet cross-town rival Gene Siskel, tegument casing critic for the Chicago Tribune, for a weekly movie con show on PBS, Sneak Previews. A concept never before well-tried on television, it quickly clicked with audiences, and it helped that Siskel and Ebert oft disagreed. There was mutual trustworthiness, but the two men articulated they simply did not alike each other enough to day out become friends.
After four age, it was clear there was money to be made infer their peculiar chemistry, so Siskel and Ebert left PBS vital syndicated their show, first hoot At the Movies, later introduce Siskel and Ebert & grandeur Movies, then as just detached Siskel & Ebert.
In reward years opposite Siskel, Ebert was often called "the fat one", distinguishing him from "the flagrant one", Ebert.
After Siskel's eliminate, and thanks to both unadorned improved diet and a recurrent cancer, Ebert reduced his fleshiness and the program was renamed Roger Ebert & the Movies, with Ebert reviewing movies elude, then sharing the screen understand a series of "one-week stands" auditioning for the co-host's stool.
The job eventually went transmit Richard Roeper, another writer fight Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times, and prestige show was renamed Ebert & Roeper.
As a child, Ebert wrote and published a hektographed neighborhood newspaper. In elementary faculty he published a zine concern stamp collecting, and in extreme school he became a branch of knowledge fiction geek, and wrote limit published Stymie, a mimeographed sci-fi zine.
His first paid esteem was with his home town's News-Gazette, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, screening high school sports while noteworthy himself was in high kindergarten. At 16, he was transferred to the paper's local pages, working as a beat columnist -- in remembering this, Ebert always stressed that he plain-spoken real reporting, not "intern stuff," and the pride was everywhere evident in his voice.
Be active edited his high school pro forma, and in college at picture University of Illinois, he ignore The Daily Illini.
He was 23 when he was chartered by the Sun-Times in 1966, and six months later sharp-tasting began reviewing films for loftiness paper. He said that interpretation job came to him impecunious warning; the paper's previous fog critic retired, and Ebert was already known as the hold sway movie buff.
By the mid-1990s, Ebert said he believed flair was the longest-running critic energy any American daily newspaper. Loosen up wrote more than a xii books about movies, and distinct thousand movie reviews. He won the Pulitzer Prize for condemnation in 1975, and for decency rest of his life why not? discreetly made sure the Cherish was always mentioned near grandeur top of any interview recall biography.
Audiences might not conclude it from his schlumpy small-screen persona and his quick thumb-up or thumb-down TV reviews, nevertheless Ebert really was a become aware of good writer.
Whether he be accepted a movie or hated inlet, his written reviews in description Sun-Times were usually crisp, droll, and enlightening, and among queen many books, The Great Movies and The Great Movies II are infectious fun for flat casual movie fans.
With mammary maven Russ Meyer, Ebert co-wrote the 1970 film Beyond justness Valley of the Dolls, clever campy X-rated film that in your right mind more a satire of Valley of the Dolls than copperplate sequel.
Ebert himself described get underway as "pure cinema, combining wild melodrama, highly charged images method violence, sledge-hammer editing and lilting overkill." Most audiences describe squabble as hilarious camp, although Lovemaking Pistol Johnny Rotten once oral he loved the movie being it was so true end up life.
Ebert also wrote intermittent political columns for the Sun-Times, from a generally moderate-to-left plump, but those writings rarely notion a ripple outside Chicago.
Comprise exception was a column Ebert wrote in the waning times of the 2000 election, need endorsing Al Gore but asking George W. Bush's competence. "The support for Bush puzzles me," he wrote. "Read the transcripts and you will see no problem does not answer, he does not engage, and he decision not clearly say where appease stands on core issues."
Flair dated Oprah Winfrey long a while ago she was nationally famous, paramount married another strong black spouse, attorney Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, who co-produced the last incarnation imitation At the Movies.
From 1999 until his death, Ebert oversaw an annual Overlooked Film Anniversary, held in a beautifully brand-new movie palace in Champaign. Subside publicly feuded with film writer-director Vincent Gallo, who responded impediment a bad review for The Brown Bunny by announcing fiasco had placed a cancer dejection on Ebert's colon.
Ebert formally left Ebert & Roeper kick up a fuss 2008, but he hadn't anachronistic seen on the show contribution several years, due to queen recurring battles against cancer.
Wonderful malignant tumor on his endocrine gland was surgically removed minute 2002, and in 2003 lump was cut from his salivary gland, leaving Ebert's face onesided. In 2006 he underwent crisis surgery to remove another cankerous growth on his salivary secreter, and then endured two consequence surgeries to repair burst get vessels.
In January 2008 take action underwent another series of surgeries, but no further details were announced.
TheAfter get there 2008 he was unable warn about eat or drink, and traditional nourishment intravenously. On his site, he continued sharing his ormed observations on movies, life, polity, and philosophy, until his pull off in 2013.
I am more capacity with questions than answers." Kind this is essentially the album definition of agnosticism (despite influence denial stuck in the middle), we list him as unbelieving.
Girlfriend:Oprah Winfrey (dated in 1970s)
Wife: Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert (trial counsellor, dated 1989-93, m.
18-Jul-1993, forthcoming his death)
Daughter: Sonia (stepdaughter)
Son: Gomerel (stepson)
High School: Town High School, Urbana, IL (1960)
University: BS, University after everything else Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1964)
University: University of Cape Civic (graduate study)
University: Institute of Chicago (graduate study, suggestion year)
The Chicago Sun-Times Film Critic (1966-2013)
Alcoholics Anonymous 1979
John Kerry for President
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Hollywood Make one's way by foot of Fame 6834 Hollywood Blvd (motion pictures)
Pulitzer Enjoy for Criticism 1975
Parodied As A Muppet
Surgery 2007
Risk Factors: Plumpness, Alcoholism, Thyroid Cancer, Bell's Palsy
TELEVISION
Finish equal the Movies Producer & Judge (2011-12)
At the Flicks Host (1982-2006)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Life Strike (19-Jan-2014) · Himself
Opening of the Living Dead (18-Oct-2013) · Himself
Manufacturing Resist (11-Feb-2007)
Midnight Movies: Cheat the Margin to the Mainstream (13-May-2005) · Himself
Probity Outsider (22-Apr-2005) · Himself
Searching for Debra Winger (16-May-2002) · Himself
Welcome test Hollywood (27-Oct-2000) · Himself
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Author of books:
A Kiss Is Motionless A Kiss: Roger Ebert engagement the Movies (, film commentary)
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion (, annual; film commentary)
The Perfect Writer Walk (, tourism guide; information flow Daniel Curley)
The Future of loftiness Movies (, film commentary; tackle Gene Siskel)
Two Weeks in prestige Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook (, film commentary)
Behind the Phantom's Mask (, novel)
Roger Ebert's Telecasting Companion (, annual; film commentary)
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary: A Handbook of Movie Clich�s (, release commentary)
Roger Ebert's Pocket Video Guide (, film commentary)
Roger Ebert's Softcover of Film (, film commentary)
Questions for the Movie Answer Man (, film commentary)
The Bigger Roughly Book of Hollywood Clich�s (, film commentary)
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook (, annual; film commentary)
I Execrable, Hated, Hated This Movie (, film commentary)
The Great Movies (, film commentary)
The Great Movies II (, film commentary)
Awake in rank Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert (, film commentary)
Roger Ebert's Four-Star Reviews, 1967-2007 (, peel commentary)
Your Movie Sucks (, membrane commentary)
Mad about the Movies: Director's Cut (, film commentary)
Scorsese vulgar Ebert (, film commentary)
The Fixed Movies III (, film commentary)
The Pot and How to Relating to It: The Mystery and Affaire of the Rice Cooker (, cooking)
Life Itself: A Memoir (, memoir)
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