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"I think that if, by the end, according to your abilities, we have done something to make others just a little happier, and something to make ourselves just a little happier, that is approximately the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves disappointed is where all crime starts. We should try to contribute joy to the planet. That's true whatever our problems, our health, our circumstances. We should try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to think it is out."
-from Life Itself Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of the time. He has been critiquing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever before to get a Pulitzer Reward. He has came out on tv set for four ages, including 23 years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the films. In 2006, issues from thyroid malignancy treatment led to the loss of his ability to consume, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his tone of voice, Ebert has only turn into a more prolific and important writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic history of his life and career. Roger Ebert's journalism transported him over a path definately not his practically idyllic years as a child in Urbana, Illinois. It really is a quest that began as a reporter for his local daily, and got him to Chicago, where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the Sun-Times, introducing a lifetime's ventures. In this candid, personal background, Ebert chronicles everything: his loves, deficits, and obsessions; his have difficulty and recovery from alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and his religious beliefs. He creates about his years at the Sun-Times, his bright colored publication 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 had written Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and an ill-fated Gender Pistols movie). He stocks his insights into celebrities and directors like John Wayne, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese. This is a tale that only Roger Ebert could inform. Filled with the same profound insight, dry out wit, and pointed observations that his viewers have long appreciated, this is greater than a memoir-it is a singular, warm-hearted, inspiring look at life itself.
