A Little Good News from Roger Ebert

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Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert is returning to the airwaves.

“Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies,” a weekly half-hour film review program, was announced today by its producers, Chaz and Roger Ebert. The program continues the 35-year-old run of a reviewing format first introduced by Gene Siskel and Ebert and later by Ebert and Richard Roeper.

It will return to its birthplace, launching nationally on public television with presenting station WTTW Chicago, where it began in 1975 as “Opening Soon at a Theater Near You” and then in 1976 as “Sneak Previews,” became the highest rated entertainment show in PBS history. The original format moved into syndication as “At the Movies” in 1982 with Tribune Entertainment and a quarter-century with Buena Vista Television.

The Eberts said the new program will air in January 2011 … The program’s principal co-hosts will be Christy Lemire, film critic of The Associated Press, and Elvis Mitchell of National Public Radio.

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13 years ago

Courage and tenacity in the face of adversity Wonderful.

13 years ago

I assume they did too..they got paid…;-)

13 years ago

I’m glad Ebert is still out there are scrapping away, as a movie lover I always enjoyed the Siskel and Ebert review show

SJ
Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

Holte, my two favorite quotes are:

Siskel: “That film could’ve contained the missing reels from the Magnificient Ambersons and it still would’ve sucked.”

Ebert: “No bad movie is too short, and no good movie is too long.”

As for Ebert himself, he turned me onto Cormac McCarthy, by mentioning once in a review in the late 80s (of Silverado I think) that Blood Meridian was the most violent thing he had ever read… so like a total nerd, I had to see what he was talking about, and McCarthy has been one of favorite authors since.
All hail Roger Ebert.
-SJ

Jess
13 years ago

I read somewhere recently, he is also writing a cook book, even though he no longer has the ability to taste or smell the food, because of all the surgeries on his mouth and jaw.

13 years ago

oh right …. he’s a critic…

Money for old rope.

We’re all critics but only a few get paid…how they do it????

Jess
Reply to  fourdinners
13 years ago

Here is an old blurb, about this Lord Black person and what he did within British circles for you to read 4d. Apparently back in 06 they were trying to introduce American neocon philosophies to the British.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/nov/21/pressandpublishing.media/print

Ebert is a really good film critic, that has been put through the medical ringer lately with cancer.

13 years ago

Who he?

Oh God! (or the deity of your choice) I am such an ignoramous!

Reply to  fourdinners
13 years ago

Far from a household name in the U.K., Ebert has been a “star” in the world of film review on this side of the Atlantic. He’s North America’s most famous movie critic. In recent years cancer has hit him hard. He’s had to have several surgeries and can no longer speak – hence the need for other people to host the new TV show.

Also, a few years back he had a blistering letter exchange with Conrad Black. If anyone out there knows where I can find these letters on the Web, please let me know.

Jess
Reply to  Stimpson
13 years ago

Ask and the google queen waves her fairy wand and finds stuff for you 🙂 Stimpson. I’ll go use my ninja google skills see what else I can dig up fir ya, I think this is all of it though. http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/04/10/a-chicago-story-roger-ebert-takes-on-conrad-black/

Stimpson
Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

*tents his fingers a la Montgomery Burns* Excellent!

Thanks, Jess. Those are the letters I was thinking of. First time I saw them, I circulated quotes to co-workers at a paper owned by David Radler. 🙂

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