Roger Ebert

School Board Votes to Stop Caring About Test Scores

Tony Phillips | Posted 05.31.2012

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Tony Phillips

So the intermediate Gatsby is, as it turns out, not Gatsby at all -- it's something 67-pages long that panders to possessors of feeble vocabularies, probably the types of kids who vomit before standardized tests.

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My Friend Rev. Jesse Jackson on Whitney Houston

Lonna Saunders | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: The Bodyguard, Aretha Franklin, Newark, Whitney Houston, Roger Ebert, New Jersey, Kevin Costner, Seventeen Magazine, Rev. Jesse Jackson, New Hope Baptist Church, Cissy Houston, Women News
Lonna Saunders

Her death is a wake up call for all of us to reach out to those we know and love, whether they seek our help or not.

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Linsanity: The Point God of Sports Memes

Chi Tung | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Linsanity, Blogosphere, Los Angeles Clippers, Yao Ming, Grantland, Internet Memes, Roger Ebert, Chinese Culture, Tebowmania, Asian Americans, Globalization, Deadspin, Jeremy Lin, Tim Tebow, New York Knicks, Culture News
Chi Tung

For every one of us eager to claim Lin in our racial draft, there's Lin himself, shrugging off the portentous hype because he's too busy making love to pressure to tangle with Asian American identity politics.

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Is 'Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close' The Worst Reviewed Best Picture Nominee Ever?

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 01.24.2012

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The review collection site, Rotten Tomatoes, was launched in 1999, and has since become a go-to site for film criticism. And in the last ten years, no...

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TV Stars Battle It Out In 140 Characters Or Less

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Year-in-Review, Reality TV, Lindsay Lohan, Kourtney Kardashian, Dr Phil Lindsay Lohan, Tv, Alec Baldwin American Airlines, TV Canada, Television, Roger Ebert, Ashton Kutcher Twitter, Bam Margera, Alec Baldwin, Celebrities, Ashton Kutcher, TV News

It's not easy to articulate the perfect jab in 140 characters or less, but some of our favorite TV stars have masted the art of the Twitter feud. The ...

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Dear Roger Ebert: Let Your TV Show End

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.31.2012

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Marshall Fine

Really -- between video blogs and all the other on-demand-style movie criticism available on the Internet, the notion of a movie-review show on TV seems a little quaint.

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Roger Ebert: Movie Show Going On Hiatus

AP | Posted 01.31.2012

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CHICAGO — Movie critic Roger Ebert says the public television program "Ebert Presents: At The Movies" will go on hiatus at the end of December. ...

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35 Years Later: Rocky

Roger Ebert | Posted 11.21.2011

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She sits, tearful and crumpled, in a corner of her little bedroom. Her brother has torn apart the living room with a baseball bat. Rocky, the guy she ...

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PHOTOS: The Top 20 Legendary Post50 Men

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 11.13.2011

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We brought you our picks for The Top 20 Legendary Females -- now it's time for those XY chromosomes! All candidates for the list actively participa...

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Roger Ebert Sends SOS For His Show

Posted 01.07.2012

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Roger Ebert announced on Sunday that his movie-review show "Ebert Presents At the Movies," could end this year if the production does not find a finan...

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Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic

David Finkle | Posted 12.28.2011

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David Finkle

The only fan letter I ever wrote to a public figure -- other than to child star Bobby Driscoll when I was a child -- went to the then New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael.

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WATCH: 'Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe'

Posted 12.10.2011

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Back in 1978, Herzog challenged a then-unknown Errol Morris to make his feature documentary, "Gates of Heaven," promising Morris that he would eat his...

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Two Thumbs Up for Ebert And "Life Itself"

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.23.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

The chapter "How I Believe in God," is one of the more self-aware, humble and eloquent accounts of personal belief I've ever read.

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Rogert Ebert: Nobody Told Me I Would Never Speak Again

Posted 11.15.2011

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Roger Ebert appeared on the "Today" show Wednesday to promote his new memoir, "Life Itself." Ebert was once mostly known as America's most famous f...

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'It's Definitely a Democracy': Clint Eastwood's Self-Portrait as an Experimental Director

David Galenson | Posted 11.14.2011

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David Galenson

Experimental artists are often overshadowed by their more precocious and more flamboyant conceptual counterparts. Yet Clint Eastwood's success demonstrates that dictatorship is not the only way to make great movies.

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WATCH: The Club That Launched Some Of Your Favorite Black Comedians

Posted 10.25.2011

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Before they were household names, where did Jamie Foxx, Bernie Mac & Dave Chappelle call home when they were in Chicago? A now non-existent club calle...

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Motion Picture Association Of America Downgrades United States' Rating From PG-13 To NC-17

Spencer Green | Posted 09.30.2011

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Spencer Green

"We're sorry to have to make this adjustment," said MPAA spokesperson Morton Isherwhile. "But, in recent months it has become clear that the United States' content is only appropriate for very limited audiences."

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Lucas Kavner

The Age Of 3D: Is It The End Or Just The Beginning?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.25.2011

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At a Comic-Con panel last week for the upcoming big-budget sci-fi caper "Prometheus," director Ridley Scott made a bold statement. Scott, who has ...

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Dumbing Down Books: A Crime Against Literature?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 09.10.2011

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Hark, hark at this righteous rage! Over at the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert is in a right tizz over his discovery of an "intermediate" readers' vers...

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Won't Be SPOILED Again... Why I No Longer Read Roger Ebert's Review Prior to Seeing the Movie

Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.06.2011

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Scott Mendelson

I still trust Roger Ebert as a film critic. But sadly, I no longer trust him not to ruin the surprises on a whim. I will read Roger Ebert's reviews for as long as he writes them. But I no longer read them before I see a given film.

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'Transformers 3,' Which Fake-Destroyed Downtown Chicago, Opens Wednesday

Posted 08.28.2011

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"Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon," the film that left parts of downtown Chicago in the midst of fake wreckage and very real traffic annoyance for two...

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Facebook: Between the Daredevil and the Deep Blue Sea

Cedric Perrier | Posted 08.23.2011

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Cedric Perrier

Akin to walking into Starbucks only to have your barista ask you whether you'd like breast milk in your latte, Facebook seems intent on taking things further than most of us want to go -- particularly privacy-wise.

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Roger Ebert Apologizes For 'Jackass' Tweet...Kind Of

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 08.21.2011

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It's only Tuesday, but it's already clear that this is not Roger Ebert's best week. In response to the death of 'Jackass' star Ryan Dunn, Ebert tw...

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Roger Ebert's Facebook Taken Down After Tweet Causes Ire

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.21.2011

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Not even Roger Ebert is safe from Facebook. The movie critic's Facebook page was taken down following comments he made via Twitter about Jackass star ...

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Roger Ebert's Slam Of Dead 'Jackass' Star Ignites Controversy

Posted 08.20.2011

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UPDATE: Ebert has taken to his Chicago Sun-Times blog to explain, if not apologize, for his statements. To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan ...

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