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World-famous film critic and television host Roger Ebert delivers one of the most eagerly-anticipated memoirs of the year. Roger Ebert has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. The first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, he has been a fixture on television for... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Roger Ebert: The author.
- Chaz Hammel-Smith Ebert: Ebert's beloved and devoted African-American wife.
- Gene Siskel: Ebert's partner in "At the Movies," and subsequent appearances until his death.
- Annabel Stumm: Roger Ebert's mother. Remarried after his father's death.
- Robert Mitchum: Movie star interviewed by Ebert.
- Russ Meyer: Director of risque movies.
- Bob Zonka: Add a description of this character.
- Pauline Kael: Movie critic.
- Aunt Martha
- Ingmar Bergman: Swedish director held in high esteem.
- Lee Marvin: Movie star interviewed by Ebert.
- Mike Royko: Chicago Daily News/Sun-Times columnist.
- Joseph Ebert
- Oprah Winfrey
- Robert Altman: Director.
- Zonka: Sun-Times newspaperman.
- Malcolm McLaren
- Studs Terkel
- John Mchugh
- Billy
- John Wayne: Movie star interviewed by Ebert.
- Mary Magner
- Tim Lawless
- Dave
- Martin Scorsese: Director.
- Mike
- Frank Casey
- Billy Baxter
- Ernie Anderson
- Ingmar Bergman
- Werner Herzog: Director.
- Sarah Nance
- Jean Sabo
- Riccardo
- Richard Roeper
- David Letterman: TV host.
- Saul Bellow
- Henry Junior
- Ingrid Magan Eng
- Marty
- Jim Hoge: Sun-Times newspaperman.
- Herb Steinman
- Abra
- Sherman Wolf
- Thomas Wolfe: Author.
- Irving Trust
- Berenice
- Nathan Pritikin
- Pappy
- Steve McQueen
- Anna Gleeson
- Norman Thomas
- Henry Senior
- George Michael
- Paul Tyner
- Gary Wikoff
- Mia Farrow
- Betty Fairweather
- William Friedkin
- George Sisson
- Richard Wasson
- Brendan Behan
- John Ford
- Gregory Nava
- Batman
- George Eliot
- Howard Stern
- Ed Borman
- David Lean
- Dan Walker
- Mayor Daley
- Jimmy Pickens
- Sid Vicious
- Richard Harding
- Helen Howard
- Carolyn Leseur
- Seely Johnston
- Norman Mailer
- Trevor Howard
- Paul Newman
- Tom Stumm
- Travis McGee
- Garry Meier
- Sven Nykvist
- Charles Dickens
- Clint Eastwood
- Dusty Cohl
- Howard Higman
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Jacqueline Susann
- Hugh Hough
- Glen
- Robert Jung
- George Orwell
- Marilou Kogan
- Mr. Teas
- William Shakespeare
- Shari Eubank
- Joe Antelo
- Marco
- Lino
- Chuck Shaw
- John Cassavetes
- William McCarter
- Ruby Harmon
- Stuart Cleland
- Vincent
- Eisenhower
- Dr. Susan Pearlson
- Curt Beamer
- Warren Smith
- Michael Wadleigh
- Liz Krohne
- Kathleen Carroll
- Billy Goat
- Orville Moore
- Maury Povich
- Thea Flaum
- Dominic Savio
- Johnny Morris
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Frances Renner
- Jake LaMotta
- Ben Bentley
- Jim Ryan
- Michael Powell
- Don McMullen
- Paul Kohner
- Marilyn Monroe
- Hyde
- Meyer Mishkin
- Harold Holmes
- Jay Kovar
- Otto Preminger
- Harvey Keitel
- Nelson Algren
- Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert
- Johnny Carson
- Petula Clark
- Father J. W. McGinn
- Dan-Dan
- F. Trumper
- Karol Ann Pickens
- Janice Cowart
- Jari Jackson
- Oscar Adams
- Dwayne Gaines
- Suttree
- Jack Lane
- Giovanni
- Helen Stevick
- Dave Reed
- Holmesy
- Ian Nairn
- Stanley Hynes
- Francis Coppola
- John Soane
- John O'Hara
- Jack McPhaul
- Michael Jordan
- Wanda
- Mary Jo Broderick
- Pierong Yu
- Everett Stumm
- Bill Nack
- Jon Anderson
- Aguirre
- Doris Lessing
- Blackie
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Dr. Jakub Schlichter
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Kirk Douglas
- Rupert Murdoch
- Chuck Napier
- Larry Stewart
- Groucho Marx
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Huston
- Ed McCahill
- Steve Goodman
- Gracie
- Dwight Macdonald
- Paul Cox
- Robert De Niro
- Fitz
- Russell Willis
- Cliff Robertson
- Leo Koch
- Liv Ullmann
- Red Grange
- Adlai Stevenson
- Ming
- Lord Grade
- Daddy Bruce
- Charles Laughton
- Ida
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Rita Marie
- Armando Robles Godoy
- Kitty Kelly
- Bernardine Gleeson
- J.R.
- Nixon
- Deborah Kerr
- Monica Eng
- Bill Schmelzle
- Marianne Dull
- Mike Tuohy
- Ivan Albright
- Kathryn Altman
- Tyke Vriner
- Paul Galloway
- Edy Williams
- Oscar Brotman
- Bill Graham
- Don Ephraim
- Kurosawa
- Big Mama
- Christopher Wren
- Barack Obama
- Merle Smith
- Walter Harry Ebert
- Phil Roach
- Harry Golden
- Elvis
- Anna Dudak
- Michelle Triola
- Mrs. Marian Seward
- Haji
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Milo
- Charles Bronson
- Jackie Yates
- Isabella Rossellini
- Nastassja Kinski
- Pegeen Linn
- Ronald Reagan
- Larry Woiwode
- Hal Holmes
- Jay Leno
- Betsy Hendrick
- Woody Allen
- Marlene Iglitzen
- Ron Hunter
- Phil Jackson
- Josibiah
- Sophie Fatsoulas
- Sophia Loren
- Edward Lear
- Superman
- Morris Brown
- Gillian Ayres
- Paul Schrader
- Dr. Neil Fine
- Marshall Migatz
- Reba Pickens
- Prince Albert
- Chris Jones
- Willa Cather
- Jimmy Stewart
- Mark Taylor
- Hank Oettinger
- Cormac McCarthy
- Giotto
- Nabokov
- Sonia
- John F. Kennedy
- Steve Dahl
- Bob Havey
- Lew Grade
- Miss Brown
- Bruce Junior
- Josh Logan
- Paul Gibson
- Gil Cates
- Eugene McHugh
- Dick Stephens
- Andrew Greeley
- Bob Shaye
- John Prine
- Marajen Stevick Chinigo
- Bill Schrader
- Harry Rusk
- Mary Lou
- Fred Owens
- E. E. Cummings
- Emil Evans
- Harold Pelzer
- Orson Welles
- Dan Curley
- Ramin Bahrani
- Britt
- Doddy
- Herman Kogan
- Eppie Lederer
- Willard Hansen
- Dick Takeuchi
- Rex Reed
- Hulda
- Milton
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Scott Wilson
- Johnnie Mae Hammel
- Tom Fitzpatrick
- Nick
- Al
- Bill
- William
- Catherine Denouveau
Setting & Locations edit
- Chicago
- Urbana, Illinois: Ebert's hometown. Home of the main University of Illinois campus.
- London
- Illinois
- Cannes
- New York
- Champaign, Illinois: Twin city of Urbana. Has the older section of campus.
- Los Angeles
- Cape Town
- Venice
- Michigan
- Hollywood
- Boulder
- Florida
- Ohio
- Old Town: Chicago's equivalent to SoHo.
- Europe
- Jermyn Street
- Rush Street: Chicago's night club district.
- South Africa
- Indiana
- Stockholm
- Paris
- California
- Piccadilly
- San Francisco
- Cambridge
- Spain
- Vietnam
- Ireland
- Rome
- Pittsburgh
- New Buffalo, Michigan
- Germany
- Washington, D.C.
- Colorado
- United States
First Sentence edit
I was born inside the movie of my life.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Roger Ebert (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0446-58497-5
Page Count: 436
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0446-58497-5
Page Count: 436
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920
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