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Overview

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.

"I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."
-from LIFE ITSELF

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For four decades, Roger Ebert has been writing and talking about films. In this candid memoir, the lights go up and we see the man himself. Life Itself recounts his career, his personal associations, his recovery from severe alcoholism and his recent battle with thyroid cancer.

— Edward Ash-Milby

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446584975
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 9/13/2011
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 29,864
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, and his reviews are syndicated in newspapers around the world. He was cohost of Siskel & Ebert and Ebert & Roeper for thirty-three years, and is now managing editor and reviewer for Ebert Presents At the Movies. He is the author of seventeen books, including Scorsese by Ebert and Awake in the Dark. The only film critic with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Roger Ebert is also an honorary member of the Directors Guild of America. He received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award of the Chicago Public Library and won the Webby Awards Person of the Year in 2010. His website, rogerebert.com, receives 110 million visits a year. He lives with his wife, Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Memory 1

1 410 East Washington 13

2 My People 23

3 My Old Man 33

4 My Mother 51

5 St. Mary's 64

6 Dan-Dan the Yo-Yo Man 74

7 Summer 30

8 Car, Table, Counter, or TakHomaSak 91

9 Blackie 98

10 My Vocation 106

11 Newspaper Days 115

12 High School 130

13 University 140

14 The Daily Illini 156

15 My Trip to Hollywood 166

16 Cape Town 171

17 London Perambulating 180

18 Eyrie Mansion 188

19 All by Myself Alone 207

20 Sun-Times 217

21 My New Job 236

22 Zonka 253

23 McHugh 275

24 O'Rourke's 285

25 Leisure of the Theory Class 295

26 Alcoholism 304

27 Books Do Furnish a Room 318

28 Russ Meyer 325

29 The Interviewer 347

30 Lee Marvin 357

31 Robert Mitchum 368

32 Big John Wayne 392

33 "Irving! Brang em on!" 405

34 Ingmar Bergman 422

35 Martin Scorsese 434

36 "Fiddle on the corner where the quarters are" 448

37 "I wasn't popular when people thought I was popular" 456

38 Werner Herzog 467

39 Bill Nack 477

40 The Sweetest Set of Wheels in Town 484

41 Gene Siskel 493

42 Jugular 512

43 The Talk Shows 523

44 When I Laughed in Study Hall 539

45 My Romances 545

46 Chaz 571

47 Good News and Bad News 588

48 Nil by Mouth 596

49 Musing My Mind 606

50 Putting a New Face on Things 613

51 High School Reunion 619

52 Studs 625

53 My Last Words 633

54 How I Believe in God 639

55 Go Gently 649

Acknowledgments 657

About the Author 659

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  • Posted September 28, 2011

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  • Posted January 2, 2012

    Did not disappoint

    An honest and open look back at one's life - mistakes, successes, happiness, sadness. I liked the straightforward writing style. I could relate to this book (as a retired, age 55+, female), but young readers may not. It was the modest goal quoted on the back cover that made me purchase the book "...if we have done something to make others a little happier...ourselves a little happier...that is the best we can do."

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    Posted September 17, 2011

    Boring

    An almost unreadable book by a self-important has been.Go away already. Extremely boring.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2012

    Superlative!

    Ebert has a delightful writing style and he continues to delight! We sre glad he remains to touch us.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 26, 2011

    Highly recommended

    Quality of insight & style to be expected from Roger Ebert.

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  • Posted May 26, 2012

    Honest, funny, engaging.

    These are truly memoirs, not an autobiography, and certainly NOT ghost-written like so many celebrity memoirs. Each chapter is a beautiful little photograph, and while some chapters don't exactly link to the next, it is in the end a complete story. The final chapters were painfully intimate and honest, and I finished the book not always agreeing with Ebert, but respecting him more than I already did. He comes from a place many of us come from, not just geographic location but an unassuming, self-deprecating, grateful, and very human place. I have loved many of his movie review collections for their wit and humor, and enjoyed this book for the same reasons. It is well worth reading, and Ebert having been in the right place at the right time to work with giants like Royko, Terkel, Algren and the rest is truly something to read about; or as he puts it, to have his form of dinner conversation about. HIGHLY recommended!

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  • Posted October 9, 2011

    Thank you KenCady.

    I came here looking for a review and yours was the only one worth reading. I'll bet Mr. Ebert would agree....

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