On 4/4/2013 1:34 PM, Gene Good wrote:
> I am speechless .My mentor and literary hero is gone.He literally taught me how to love the cinema. I am typing with tears in my eyes.
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> http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/04/04/film-critic-roger-ebert-dies/
>
> Gene- in mourning		 	   		

What can I say? The man wrote the screenplay for "Beyond The Valley Of 
The Dolls" for starters. Tho I was more a Gene Siskel fan (& stunned 
when he died at 54), I loved Ebert's sense of humor & his tweaks of 
Siskel when Gene went beyond the pale (tho I tended to agree with 
Siskel). Ebert's lefty fundalmentalism irked me at times, but the man 
certainly had many gifts and was never boring (except the politicking).

  - Michael

NP: Grapes of Wrath - High Road  *** AWESOME!!!! ***
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