Roger Ebert
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From Aaron Fair, San Antonio, TX:
Roger Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. He is the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame and was named honorary life member of the Directors' Guild of America. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Screenwriters' Guild, and honorary degrees from the American Film Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1989 he has hosted Ebertfest, a film festival at the Virginia Theater in Champaign-Urbana. From 1975 until 2006 he, Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper co-hosted a weekly movie review program on national TV. He was Lecturer on Film for the University of Chicago extension program from 1970 until 2006, and recorded shot-by-shot commentaries for the DVDs of "Citizen Kane," "Casablanca," "Floating Weeds" and "Dark City," and has written over 20 books.
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From Aaron Fair, San Antonio, TX:
This letter from his father refers to my interview here with Ian Michael Smith, the 3'2" star of "Simon Birch" in 1991, who is now a student at MIT. The day I talked to him he had just had a…
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From Andy Ihnatko, Boston, MA:
From: Marc Caddell, Austin, TX:
By Roger Ebert
TORONTO, Ont.--It's the Cinderella story of this year's Toronto Film Festival. Girl is born in Chicago, grows up, graduates from college, moves to Minneapolis to join her boyfriend Jonny, who she met on the net. Works in advertising, finds it…
From: Prof. David Bordwell, Univerity of Wisconsin, Madison
From: Jacob Sager Weinstein, London, England