He wrote more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook. The program was retitled Ebert & Roeper and the Movies in 2000.Įbert's movie reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. After Siskel's death in 1999, he auditioned several potential replacements, ultimately choosing Richard Roeper to fill the open chair.

He was known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. Roger Joseph Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.' That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try to contribute joy to the world. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. 'I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Filled with the same deep insight, dry wit, and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished, this is more than a memoir-it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself. This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell. He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese. He remembers his friendships with Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Oprah Winfrey, and Russ Meyer (for whom he wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and an ill-fated Sex Pistols movie). He writes about his years at the Sun-Times, his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions his struggle and recovery from alcoholism his marriage his politics and his spiritual beliefs. It is a journey that began as a reporter for his local daily, and took him to Chicago, where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the Sun-Times, launching a lifetime's adventures. Roger Ebert's journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in Urbana, Illinois. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. 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, including twenty-three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time.

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