At Her First Cannes Without Roger, Chaz Ebert Is Taking the Festival ‘Day by Day’
Her coping strategy includes remembering the good times with Roger Ebert.
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Her coping strategy includes remembering the good times with Roger Ebert.
His TV shows with Gene Siskel had as much to do with stoking this critic's interest in film and film criticism as anyone he knew personally.
From reviews of films both classic and awful, to memorials to Gene Siskel, to an ode to his rice cooker.
Ebert wrote that his food memories only became stronger after he was no longer able to eat.
The work of this most famous of film writers was accessible to people who normally had no patience for critics.
From his famously scathing reviews to his eloquent defense of film criticism.
The late film critic was an equally impassioned political commentator.
Roger Ebert, who is dead, is gaining a surge of new followers.
He will still write, but much less often.
His wife says he was busting out "tricky disco dance moves."
"They performed it with complicated hand/knee slaps and everything."
He hasn't been able to crack their esoteric formula.