RIP, Mr. Ebert

[dando]

http://www.suntimes.com/17320958-761/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

As a movie buff, I cut my teeth watching Siskel & Ebert. RIP. He was also a long-time content provider for CompuServe. In memoriam... :thumbup: :thumbup:

-Kevin

[Napoleon]

Roger quotes:

on Get Out Your Handkerchiefs – it should be
cut up into ukelele picks!


Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is forty minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them.


Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks. But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo while passing on the opportunity to participate in Million Dollar Baby, Ray, The Aviator, Sideways, and Finding Neverland. As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.

[TravelGal]

http://www.suntimes.com/17320958-761/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

As a movie buff, I cut my teeth watching Siskel & Ebert. RIP. He was also a long-time content provider for CompuServe. In memoriam... :thumbup: :thumbup:

-Kevin

:( Sad. He fought the good fight.

[Don Quixote]

Great column on Jay Mariotti, as only Ebert could write it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/COMMENTARY/808289997

[dando]

Great column on Jay Mariotti, as only Ebert could write it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/COMMENTARY/808289997

:thumbup:

-Kevin

[datachicane]

I was asked, "How can you work for a Murdoch paper?" My reply was: "It's not his paper. It's my paper. He only owns it."

:thumbup:

[datachicane]

Here's a classic:



Watching "Mad Dog Time'' is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.<<>>The most ethical guy on the production must have been Norman Hollyn, the editor, because he didn't cut anybody out, and there must have been people willing to do him big favors to get out of this movie.

"Mad Dog Time'' should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor.

[Napoleon]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-4-2013/moment-of-zen---roger-ebert-tribute