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423 Roger Ebert

The History of Literature

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The Life and Times of Roger Ebert

"i would much rather hurt somebody's feelings who made the picture then send somebody to see a movie that i don't think is worth seeing" " roger ebert lived a good life he was a national maybe a world celebrity he did what he wanted to do and succeeded far beyond what the son of an electrician and a bookkeeper could have expected. He died in 2012 having lived through ten years of painful illness before he died he wrote about death  he thought of death as the same stateWhat i am grateful for is the gift of intelligence and for life love wonder and laughter you can't say it wasn't interesting my lifetime's memories are what i have brought home from the trip

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