Binding: Paperback
Description: Roger Ebert is the best - known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun - Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades including twenty - three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat drink or speak. But with the loss of his voice Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now for the first time he tells the full dramatic story of his life and career. Roger Ebert's journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in Urbana Illinois. It is a journey that began as a reporter for his local daily and took him to Chicago where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the Sun - Times launching a lifetime's adventures. In this candid personal history Ebert chronicles it all: his loves losses and obsessions; his struggle and recovery from alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and his spiritual beliefs. He writes about his years at the Sun - Times his colorful newspaper friends and his life - changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. He remembers his friendships with Studs Terkel Mike Royko Oprah Winfrey and Russ Meyer (for whom he wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and an ill - fated Sex Pistols movie). He shares his insights into movie stars and directors like John Wayne Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese. This is a story that only Roger Ebert could tell. Filled with the same deep insight dry wit and sharp observations that his readers have long cherished this is more than a memoir - it is a singular warm - hearted inspiring look at life itself.
Title: Life Itself A Memoir
Author(s): Ebert Roger
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9780446584968
Pages: 448 Pages, 16 Pages Of B&W And Colour Photos
Publication Date: 9/4/2012
Category: Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment