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A Memoir
Grand Central Publishing
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
448 pages ISBN: 0446584975 EAN: 9780446584975 Kindle: B004QX07GO Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He
has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times
since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a
Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four
decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of
Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. In 2006,
complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the
loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the
loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and
influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells
the full, dramatic story of his life and career. Roger
Ebert's journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly
idyllic childhood in Urbana, Illinois. 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. 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. He writes about his
years at the Sun-Times, his colorful newspaper
friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene
Siskel. 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 shares his insights into movie stars and
directors like John Wayne, Werner Herzog, and Martin
Scorsese. This is a story that only Roger Ebert could
tell. 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. "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. To make
others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is
where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the
world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health,
our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this,
and am happy I lived long enough to find it out." -from
LIFE ITSELF
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