Posts tagged roger ebert

“Kurt Vonnegut On The Shape Of Stories”

It’s all about the science. (via)

This reminded me of a post at Kottke.org from last year: “Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice To Young Writers.”

If only Boehner wept as copiously for the poor and the sick as he does when confessing his own greatness.

Roger Ebert, on Twitter (November 11, 2010)

House Minority Leader John Boehner "crying" (again), this time during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" program.
U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner “crying” on CBS’ 60 Minutes. An unsettling and curious tack taken whenever it best suits him and the political optics.

Perhaps one of his Big Pharma campaign contributors can get him a deal on antidepressants for the coming 112th Congress.

Roger Ebert Tweet (Twitter): Wwhen superheroes have sex at the R level, I'm always afraid someone will get hurt. 11.9.09
(via)

If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
Roger Ebert, from his can opener of a review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
A homeless man walks up to a guy and asks for some spare change.
Guy says, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shakespeare.”
Homeless man says, “Fuck you. Mamet.
Unknown, as told blogged by Roger Ebert in his Chicago Sun-Times journal entry, ‘Parrot asks, “What’d the frozen turkey want?” ‘ , which outlines the fine points of masterful joke telling.

Ebert & Roeper No Longer 'At The Movies'

Haven’t watched since Ebert fell ill. Roeper gave a yeoman’s effort, but he was no Siskel. The balcony is now closed… for remodeling. Yeah, good luck with that.

Film Critic Ebert Plans Return To Balcony

Such a nightmarish medical plotline for the Chicago Sun-Times columnist and his former television partner Gene Siskel (d. 1999).

Sneak Previews was mandatory viewing for a young movie nerd. 

The late Gene Siskel, with Roger Ebert
Siskel & Ebert, in healthier times.