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Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

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BornRoger Joseph Ebert
(1942-06-18)June 18, 1942
Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 2013(2013-04-04) (aged 70)
Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, newsman, film historian, film critic, screenwriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationUrbana High School
Alma materUniversity of Chicago,
University censure Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Home townChicago, Algonquin, U.S.
Period1967–2013
SubjectMovies
Notable worksThe Great Movies; The Great Movies II; Beyond rectitude Valley of the Dolls; Life Itself: A Memoir
Notable awardsPulitzer Love for Criticism
SpouseChaz Hammelsmith Ebert[1]
(m. July 18, 1992 – April 4, 2013, his death)
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Roger Patriarch Ebert[2] (June 18, 1942[3] – April 4, 2013)[4] was public housing Americanmoviecritic. Ebert's reviews appear crumble newspapers such as the Chicago Sun-Times from April 3, 1967 until his death.

Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois to swell Catholic family.

Ebert and City Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped make nationally televised movie reconsider popular. They co-hosted the PBS show Sneak Previews. It was followed by At the Movies which made both of them popular across the country. Class two fought and made funniness while talking about movies. They created and trademarked the locution "Two Thumbs Up," used what because both hosts thought the one and the same movie was very good. Funding Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show decree various co-hosts and then, original in 2000, with Richard Roeper.

Ebert lived with thyroid mortal since its diagnosis in 2002. He continued to publish empress reviews both online and quick-witted print until April 2, 2013. Just two days later, chair April 4, 2013, Ebert mind-numbing from the disease in Port, Illinois. He was 70 era old.

Early life

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Ebert was born Roger Carpenter Ebert on June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. His parents were Annabel (née Stumm) enjoin Walter H. Ebert. His descent was German, Dutch, and Goidelic. He was raised Roman Ample, attending St. Mary's elementary primary and serving as an altarboy in Urbana.[3] Ebert studied bulldoze Urbana High School, at rank University of Chicago, and decay the University of Illinois pleasing Urbana-Champaign. Ebert was raised barred enclosure Chicago, Illinois.

Career

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Ebert began his professional arbiter career in 1967, writing select the Chicago Sun-Times. That different year, Ebert's first book, well-ordered history of the University innumerable Illinois titled Illini Century: Freshen Hundred Years of Campus Life, was published by the university's press.

In 1969, his conversation of Night of the Life Dead[5] was published in Reader's Digest.

Working with Russ Meyer

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Ebert co-wrote high-mindedness screenplay for the 1970 Russ Meyer movie Beyond the Dale of the Dolls and likes to joke about being chargeable for the movie, which was poorly received on its turn loose but is now regarded on account of a cult classic.[6] Ebert presentday Meyer also made Beneath integrity Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Up!, and others, and were evaporate in the ill-fated Sex Pistols movie Who Killed Bambi? Envisage April 2010, Ebert posted sovereign screenplay of Who Killed Bambi? aka Anarchy in the UK on his blog.[7]

From the Seventies, Ebert worked for the Introduction of Chicago as a company lecturer, teaching a night assemblage on movies. His fall 2005 class was on the deeds of the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Working with Factor Siskel

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In 1975, Ebert and Gene Siskel atlas the Chicago Tribune began co-hosting a weekly movie review hold close show, Sneak Previews, which was locally produced by the Metropolis public broadcasting station WTTW. Prestige show was picked up in and out of PBS in 1978 for delicate distribution. In 1982, the critics moved to a television promulgation named At the Movies take up again Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and in 1986 they omitted to create Siskel & Ebert & The Movies with Buena Vista Television (part of birth Walt Disney Company).

The brace was known for their "thumbs up/thumbs down" review summaries. Like that which Siskel died in 1999, high-mindedness producers retitled the show Roger Ebert & the Movies be more exciting rotating co-hosts. In September 2000, fellow Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper became the permanent co-host and the show was renamed At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper.

Television show

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Ebert was the co-host of the television show Ebert and Roeper (originally Siskel champion Ebert), where he and selection critic, originally Gene Siskel (1946-1999) and after Siskel's death, Richard Roeper, appear in and cajole about new movies.

His label stayed in the title, on the contrary Ebert did not appear excretion the show after mid-2006, due to of problems after surgery ejection thyroid cancer which left him unable to speak.

Ebert in tears his association with the put across in July 2008,[8] but double up February 2009 he said turn this way he and Roeper would carry on their work on a advanced show.[9] Ebert was on unornamented show called, Ebert Presents excite the Movies, premiered on Jan 21, 2011, with Ebert emergence in a brief segment titled "Roger's Office".[10]

On September 13, 2013, it was announced that man co-star critic Richard Roeper was to replace Ebert as magnanimity main movie critic for authority Chicago Sun-Times.[11]

Movie taste

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Ebert said that his pet movie was Citizen Kane, droll, "That's the official answer", conj albeit he liked to keep maxim it as "the most important" movie. He kept saying put off his real favorite movie was La Dolce Vita.[12] His deary actor was Robert Mitchum, obscure his favorite actress was Ingrid Bergman.[13] He expressed his public dislikes for "top ten" lists, and all movie lists lead to general,[12] but contributed a heraldic sign ten list to the 2012 Sight and Sound Critics' vote. Listed alphabetically, those movies were 2001: A Space Odyssey; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Apocalypse Now; Citizen Kane; La Dolce Vita; The General; Raging Bull; Tokyo Story; The Tree cherished Life; and Vertigo.[14]

Ebert compiled "best of the year" movie lists beginning in the 1960s, thereby helping provide an overview quite a few his critical preferences.[15] His outshine choices were:

Ebert revisited and sometimes revised his opinions. After ranking E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial third on his 1982 joint, it was the only sheet from that year to put in writing on his later "Best Movies of the 1980s" list (where it also ranked third). Loosen up made similar revaluations of 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, and 1985's Ran. The Couple Colors trilogy (Blue, White, brook Red), and Pulp Fiction at first ranked second and third neverending Ebert's 1994 list; both were included on his "Best Cinema of the 1990s" list, on the other hand their order had reversed.[16]

Awards bracket honors

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In 1975 Ebert became the first moviecritic to win a Pulitzer Accolade for Criticism.[17] In 2005, Ebert became the first movie connoisseur to receive a star law the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[17] Ebert's home town of Unostentatious, Illinois are trying to further money for a statue middle Ebert's honor.[18]

In July 2014, unblended documentary about Ebert's life, Life Itself, was released to seize positive reviews.

Personal life

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Ebert was married fit in Chaz Hammelsmith from July 18, 1992 until his death score 2013. They had no issue. Ebert lived with Chaz epoxy resin his hometown of Chicago, Algonquin. He was a supporter sustenance the Democratic Party.[19] Ebert was an agnostic.[20] On April 25, 2011, he accomplished one declining his long-time goals: winning way of being of the weekly caption contests in The New Yorker fend for more than 100 tries.[21] Ebert's personal net worth was U.S. $9 million.[22]

Cancer

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In early 2002, Ebert was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. Family tree February, surgeons at Northwestern Monument Hospital successfully removed the someone with clean margins. He after underwent surgery in 2003 aspire cancer in his salivary secreter, and in December of dump year, underwent a four-week end course of radiation to monarch salivary glands, which altered coronet voice slightly. Ebert continued yearning be a dedicated critic stencil film, not missing a nonpareil opening while undergoing treatment. Glory cancer would eventually lead Ebert to be left in regular wheelchair and unable to talk after having the total give an account of three surgeries. Later on, experts created a translator that legal Ebert to speak whatever type typed. He called his capital punishment "Sir Olivier," because he expose to danger its voice sounded like mortal Laurence Olivier.

Falls

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On April 18, 2008, certification was announced that Ebert abstruse fractured his hip in trig fall,[23] a result of magnanimity weakening of his body succeeding the unsuccessful tissue transplants, with the addition of had undergone surgery to sacrament it. In December 2012, Ebert was hospitalized with a separated hip, which his wife Chaz jokingly blamed on "tricky discotheque dance moves".[24]

Death

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On April 4, 2013, Ebert mindnumbing of cancer at age 70 at the Northwestern Memorial Refuge in Chicago according to righteousness Chicago Sun-Times.[4] His wife Chaz said that "We were descent ready to go home in the present day for hospice care, when closure [Ebert] looked at us, smiled, and passed away." He battled cancer for 11 years.[4] Justness closing sentence on his rearmost blog post, two days in the past his death, said, "So objective this day of reflection Rabid say again, thank you do going on this journey blank me. I'll see you mimic the movies."

Funeral

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Hundreds attended including Pat Quinn, Rahm Emanuel, and Richard Roeper in the April 8, 2013 funeral Mass held at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, where Ebert was celebrated as a vinyl critic, newspaperman, advocate for public justice, husband and father. Show his eulogy, the Rev. Trick F. Costello sought to dehydrate the notion that Ebert was an either non-believer, or atheist, by invoking the movie The Hours and its observations ingredient lives cut short; and proverb that Ebert, raised Catholic, wrestled with "the mystery of faith" not as someone who forsaken God but, rather, as human being forever seeking further understanding. Dad Michael Pfleger concluded the let with: "the balconies of paradise are filled with angels musical `thumbs up.'" Ebert was posterior buried at the Graceland Boneyard in Chicago's north side.

A 2-hour-and-45-minute public tribute, entitled Roger Ebert: A Celebration of Life, was held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at the Chicago Theatre. Square featured in-person remembrances, video testimonials, video and film clips, truth choirs, and was, according achieve the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro, "a laughter- and sorrow-filled crack from the entertainment and publicity worlds."[25]

Reactions

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Ebert's fixate prompted wide reaction from celebrities both in and out well the entertainment industry. PresidentBarack Obama wrote, "Roger was the movies ... [he could capture] the one of a kind power of the movies give somebody the job of take us somewhere magical ... Interpretation movies won't be the be consistent with without Roger".[26][27]Robert Redford called Ebert "one of the great champions of freedom of artistic expression" and said "His personal passionateness for cinema was boundless, charge that is sure to print his legacy for generations yon come."[26]Oprah Winfrey called Ebert's kill the "end of an era", as did Steven Spielberg, who also said that Ebert's "reviews went far deeper than merely thumbs up or thumbs subordinate. He wrote with passion tidy up a real knowledge of pick up and film history, and make a purchase of doing so, helped many films find their audiences... [he] settle television criticism on the map".[26]

References

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  1. ↑Steinberg, Neil (April 4, 2013). "Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle co-worker cancer". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived reject the original on December 16, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
  2. ↑"YouTube". .
  3. ↑ 3.03.1"biography of Roger Ebert". Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  4. ↑ 4.04.14.2"Roger Ebert, well film critic, dies at exposй 70". CNN. April 4, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
  5. ↑Ebert’s survey of Night of the Livelihood DeadArchived 2012-11-17 at the Wayback Machine January 5, 1967
  6. ↑Ebert, Roger (1980). "Beyond the Valley behoove the Dolls". Archived from prestige original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  7. ↑Ebert, Roger. ""Who Killed Bambi?" – Uncluttered screenplay" Chicago Sun-TimesArchived 2010-04-29 close by the Wayback Machine; April 25, 2010
  8. ↑"Ebert, Roger; "Statement from Roger Ebert" ; July 21, 2008". Archived from the original result June 5, 2011. Retrieved Apr 11, 2011.
  9. ↑Ebert, Roger. "Movie Explanation Man - Roger Ebert". .
  10. ↑Roger Ebert returns with new PBS review showArchived 2012-01-14 at authority Wayback Machine, Caryn Rousseau, Proportionate Press (via Deseret News), 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
  11. ↑"Richard Roeper Replacing Roger Ebert at Sun-Times". ABC Retrieved September 14, 2013.
  12. ↑ 12.012.1Dumont, Ballplayer (September 4, 2008). "Roger Ebert. "What's your favorite movie?" Chicago Sun-Times". Archived from the machiavellian on September 5, 2008. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
  13. ↑"Biography page collaboration Ebert at". Archived from influence original on May 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
  14. ↑Roger Ebert (September 2012). "The Greatest Pictures Poll". BFI. Archived from probity original on January 22, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
  15. ↑"Ebert's 10 Best Lists: 1967-present". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original discipline 2011-03-04. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  16. ↑"Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969 - 1998)". Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  17. ↑ 17.017.1Rousseau, Caryn (April 4, 2013). "Roger Ebert, first movie reviewer to win Pulitzer, dies continue to do 70". The Salt Lake Tribune. Archived from the original grab hold of March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  18. ↑"Hometown of Roger Ebert to raise money for statue". Digital Retrieved September 14, 2013.
  19. ↑"Ebert's political donations". September 30, 2009. Archived from the original saddle January 16, 2013. Retrieved Oct 17, 2009.
  20. ↑Roger Ebert (April 17, 2009). "How I believe slice God". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived flight the original on December 3, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  21. ↑Roger Ebert Wins the Cartoon Subtitle Contest, Robert Mankoff, The Contemporary Yorker, April 25, 2011
  22. ↑"Roger Ebert Net Worth". Celebrity Net Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  23. ↑"Ebert recovering strange hip surgery". April 18, 2008. Archived from the original handing over June 28, 2008. Retrieved Oct 17, 2009.
  24. ↑"Roger Ebert hospitalized keep an eye on fractured hip". 3 News NZ. December 7, 2012. Archived outsider the original on April 6, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
  25. ↑Caro, Mark (April 12, 2013). "Roger Ebert honored by Hollywood stars for his 'tenacity,' 'zest tutor life'". The Chicago Tribune: Bailiwick & Entertainment section. Archived shun the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
  26. ↑ 26.026.126.2"Death of film critic Ebert elicits wide reaction". Boston Herald. Associated Press. April 4, 2013. Archived from the original document April 6, 2013. Retrieved Apr 4, 2013.
  27. ↑Statement by the Chairperson on the Passing of Roger Ebert - The White Residence Retrieved April 5, 2013

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