That is so perfectly apt it can't be improved upon.
Ebert was a nasty bitter man who unfortunately died a nasty bitter death.
To my reading he wasn't a "critic" at all. He phoned in shallow left-leaning book reports for, as Mark Steyn more or less admits, a public looking for 20-second synopses.
Borges--I'd love to hear your rationale for elevating this sad old spinster to "renaissance" status.
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.
Whomever you are, I am in love with you for writing what I was going to write - only better.