More Roger Ebert Tidbits

A few more interesting pieces of writing from him:

  • How he quit drinking.
  • An oral history of Siskel and Ebert.

    • So I don’t just show them giving pans, here’s a young Ebert and porn-stached Gene Siskel splitting on Taxi Driver:

    Reviewing one of my favorite films, This Is Spinal Tap:

    And here’s them loving Ed Wood:

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    1. A.A. Kidd says:
      April 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM

      Some others I thought worth sharing are his WSJ piece on why movie lists are irrelevant and especially so in the Internet age, where too many of them are made by people with no knowledge of film history:

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303341904575576431449824128.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet

      His article in Asimov’s on his time in Midwestern fandom:

      http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0501/thoughtexperiments.shtml

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