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Detailed Biography of Roger Ebert
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Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. Syndicated in more than 210 papers in the U.S., Canada, England and Japan. Co-host of "Siskel & Ebert" for 22 years. The show appears on some 200 stations, and in May, 1997, ranked as the top-rated syndicated weekly half-hour in the nation.
Critic for WLS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Chicago, and host of the live pre-and post-Academy Award broadcasts for KABC-TV in Los Angeles, which are carried in many markets.
Author of 13 books, including the annual editions of "Roger Ebert's Video Companion," the Norton anthology "Roger Ebert's Book of Film," the best-selling "Ebert's Little Movie Glossary" and the new (1997) "Questions for the Movie Answer Man."
Lecturer on Film, University of Chicago Fine Arts Program, since 1970. Known for his sessions conducting shot-by-shot analysis of films at the Universities of Colorado, Virginia and Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and the Canadian Center for the Advanced Study of Film. Jury member of the Sundance, Montreal, Chicago, Hawaii and Venice Film Festivals. Has attended Canned for 24 years and wrote a book about it ("Two Weeks in the Midday Sun") illustrated with his own sketches. One of the best-known film critics in cyberspace. Ebert's reviews appear on CompuServe and on the Chicago Sun-Times site (www.suntimes.com/ebert), as well as on the Microsoft Cinemania CD-ROM disc. He and Siskel appear on the "Siskel & Ebert" web site (http://siskel-ebert.com). Ebert also writes a monthly column for Yahoo Internet Life magazine.
Awards and Honors: Pulitzer Prize; honorary doctorate, University of Colorado; Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
Education: Universities of Illinois, Cape Town (on a Rotary Fellowship) and Chicago.
Early career: Sports writer for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette from the age of 15. Editor of The Daily Illini at the University of Illinois. Hired by the Sun-Times in 1966, appointed film critic six months later. He lives with his wife, trial attorney Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, in Chicago. Hobbies: Reading, computers, walking, travel, sketching, cosmology, Darwinianism.
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Games are not artArizona Daily Star, AZ 5 hours ago Roger Ebert, one of the few who addressed the notion, shot it down repeatedly, with prejudice. Likewise, gamers dismissed Ebert’s arguments as uninformed ... |
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Objective film criticism: an impossible task?guardian.co.uk, UK 15 hours ago The US critic Roger Ebert Ever since the dawn of cinema when the Lumiere Brothers first set up their cameras, there has been a flood of film-makers who have ... |
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Broadcaster, activist shattered barriersUrbana/Champaign News-Gazette, IL 11 hours ago Not Me," which has a foreword by film critic Roger Ebert, he told what happened when he was 6. He was riding his trike in Carbondale past two teen-agers who ... |
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Close "Encounters" with Werner HerzogThe Phoenix, MA 19 hours ago PK: I noticed the film is dedicated to Roger Ebert, and it reminded me that one of your feats was to walk 500 miles to pay a visit on another film critic or ... |
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