![]() ![]() ![]() Ebert sometimes has difficulty “separating the fascinating from the mundane,” but he’s an engaging narrator, leading readers through his happy Midwestern upbringing, his discovery of newspapers in college, and his out-of-the-blue assignment to the Sun-Times’ film desk at age 25. It helps to have lived a mostly charmed life, said Craig Seligman in. ![]() A “chatty, upbeat, and structurally loose” affair, it’s “wholly free from the complaining and self-pity so popular in memoirs these days.” The influence of the blog, which includes some of “the best writing he’s ever done,” can be felt in his new book. Today Ebert is also a hugely popular blogger, having taken to the medium after cancers of the jaw and thyroid eliminated his ability to eat, speak, and drink. The Chicago Sun-Times film critic has been a major cultural figure for more than 35 years, thanks to various editions of the television show on which he and co-host Gene Siskel turned film criticism into a thumbs-up/thumbs-down exercise. Roger Ebert may have “the most famous thumb in America,” said John Powers in NPR​.org. ![]()
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