- John McHugh
- Roger Ebert
The Sun-Times reported that writer/film critic/television personality/mensch Roger Ebert died earlier today after battling cancer for over a decade. He was 70 years old.
Over the next couple weeks, numerous people will write about the influence Ebert had on their lives (and expect some from the Reader as well). We’ve done our fair share of writing about Ebert, whether through the prism of Jonathan Rosenbaum’s film reviews or otherwise, such as a 2011 column by media critic Michael Miner that looked at the memoir Life Itself. Miner:
We were at the Sun-Times together for several years in the 70s, but I was at the front of the large newsroom and he was in the back and we had nothing to do with each other. My friend Gary Houston knew him better. Houston was a feature writer who moonlighted in local theater, and his desk and Ebert’s were a few feet apart.
