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TV pitches: So I've got this idea for a show ...
Two weeks from now, TV networks will announce their new slate of shows for next season. The majority of these series will be variations on a formula. Procedurals. High-concept sci-fi and fantasy dramas. Nighttime soaps. Comedies starring familiar faces....
Tags: Mad Men (tv program), Jimmy Fallon, Sundance Film Festival, Science and Technology, Redbox
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10 things you might not know about film critics
Chicago Tribune reportersA screenwriter who went by the pseudonyms of R. Hyde and Reinhold Timme died recently in Chicago. Others knew the man as Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert's death got us thinking about interesting facts involving movie critics....Tags: Slavery, Rob Schneider, Entertainment, Did You Hear About the Morgans? (movie), Times Square
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We'll still hear Ebert at the movies
Roger Ebert's death is mourned by many, but I will remember it as bringing down the curtain on a special guy in a special time: He was multimedia before multimedia was cool. In today's angrily polarized political times, I particularly appreciate how...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Roger Ebert, Entertainment Events, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Chicago Sun-Times
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Rosenthal: Roger Ebert wrote a business script worth following
We all knew Roger Ebert. Even those who knew Roger only through his words and insights felt a bond. That was one of Ebert's many gifts, and with his death leaving such a profound void, it is easy to overlook all that we still have from him. Beyond the...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Loop, Entertainment, Social Media, Oprah Winfrey
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Thanks to Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
The first time I encountered Roger Ebert, I detested him. The second time I encountered him, I liked him even less. In later years, I learned that Ebert's relationship with Gene Siskel progressed the same way: animosity, then grudging respect, then love...
Tags: Roger Ebert, Hoop Dreams (movie), Tom Cruise, Entertainment, University of California, Irvine
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A shared love of film
In today's Arts and Entertainment section, the Tribune has published a wonderful picture of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert in their prime — seated front row center and gazing in rapt attention at the great silver screen. They come across as more like...Tags: Roger Ebert
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The unforgettable Roger Ebert
Life is certainly not for sissies. Anyone could have asked film critic Roger Ebert, who fought a long courageous battle against cancer. Back in the day, I watched the dynamic duo of Ebert and Gene Siskel, on the Public Broadcasting Show, “Sneak...Tags: Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Roger Ebert
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Roger Ebert: First citizen critic and father to us all
It was fitting that Roger Ebert's death caused Twitter to explode Thursday with film and TV critics, cultural recappers and entertainment bloggers sending their best wishes across the coded universe to mark, and perhaps aid, the passing of the iconic film...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Roger Ebert, Entertainment Events, Chicago Sun-Times, Netflix Inc.
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Roger Ebert: Quintessential Chicagoan
When Anthony Bourdain was in town last summer taping a Chicago-themed episode of his Travel Channel show “The Layover,” he asked various people, including me, to name the quintessential Chicagoan, and a consensus quickly emerged. The...
Tags: Entertainment, Celebrities, Movies, Festive Events, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (movie)
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Roger Ebert: A look back at five reviews of fan-favorite films
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFilm criticism lost a singularly significant voice Thursday with the death of Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert, who lost his ...... -
Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end
This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...
Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sundance Film Festival, Roger Ebert, Entertainment Events, Citizen Kane (movie)
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Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...
Tags: Weight, J.J. Abrams, Independent (Movie Genre), Citizen Kane (movie), Entertainment
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