I know people who knew him and not a single person recalls him as being the least bit bitter or nasty. I’ll post this here since it’s in topic...Do you know anything about him other than the TV show? His blog was a wide ranging document dealing with many topics not related to cinema (or politics). His memoirs are one of the best written in recent decades. He was fully integrated into the local Arts and Humanities scene without ignoring local issues. He was one of the best writers in America period. A modern day Erasmus.
Oh, yes, Borges! I’ve thrown away my memoirs of Casanova after I read Ebert! What more was there to say about Life and “Jackass 3”?
By the way, to mention another critic who I think writes beautifully about movies: Camille Paglia. I love her book on “The Birds”.
Erasmus.
You have got to be kidding.
What does that make Gene Shalit? Mendelssohn?
Look, I’m pleased that you and your dinner set thought he was so swell.
To me he was a sh!+ on the tube and he was a sh!+ in print. No, I didn’t read his “blog” but I don’t read Oprah’s blog, or Siskel’s for that matter, and-—after this-—I won’t be looking up yours either.