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Roger Ebert

Film critic

United States · 1942–2013

Film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 and the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Treated for thyroid and salivary gland cancer from 2002, he lost his lower jaw and the ability to speak, eat and drink in 2006, and turned his journal at rogerebert.com into the most widely read thing he wrote. He continued reviewing until two days before his death in April 2013.

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Question What have you come to understand about what it means to be human? Values & belief read 8 other answers →
When I was a child the mailman came once a day. Now the mail arrives every moment. I used to believe it was preposterous that people could fall in love online. Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

Recorded Roger Ebert's Journal, rogerebert.com, 6 November 2010 source ↗

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