In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. He has appeared on television for four decades. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out." Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time.
That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try to contribute joy to the world. Ebert has ever written." - Janet Maslin, New York Times "To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. He gives career advice to the young Oprah Winfrey, hangs out with the old Robert Mitchum, and scripts the movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls for skinflick meister Russ Meyer, whose own account of their collaboration makes you suspect that Ebert is giving us the PG version.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best thing Mr. His career took off quickly - he'd won the Pulitzer Prize by age 33 - and he began accumulating a vast storehouse of anecdotes. He was all of 25 years old, and he seized the job like a brass ring. But his life took a very different turn in 1967 when, much to his surprise, he was named film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times. The drinking problem was one Ebert himself would share - and eventually conquer.Ī lifelong liberal, Ebert had dreamed of being a feisty newspaper columnist like Mike Royko. He had an electrician father, Walter, whom he obviously adored and a mother, Annabel, who treated him kindly but also scared him with her anger, especially once she became an alcoholic.
He was born 69 years ago in Urbana, Ill., and enjoyed a classic Middle American childhood, idyllic but tinged with darkness.
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