Thursday night's memorial service was an evening of stories, and private memories, and funny moments over meals, even if Ebert's longtime colleague Richard Roeper wondered: "How do you tell a story about the best storyteller you ever met?" Here are some of those stories.
Ebert was eulogized Monday at a funeral mass, with his family, colleagues, and fellow Chicagoans speaking of a man who shared himself with the world and fought as "a soldier for social justice."
Today in viral videos: Kid President gets the White House tour he deserves, remembering Roger Ebert, and the best fake social media sites created by the television industry.
As we mourn the passing of Roger Ebert, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that another film and journalism icon who recently died, Nora Ephron, will be the subject of an HBO documentary.
Movie fans, journalists, Chicagoans, and, truly, all Americans lost a hero yesterday when they learned that Roger Ebert had died following his lengthy battle with cancer. We've collected some of the words — and images — from those remembrances.
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its longtime film critic Roger Ebert, whose long battle with cancer couldn't take him away from the words he loved so much, has passed away at the age of 70.
The world's most legendary movie critic with a career longevity that no illness has seemed to conquer, announced in a blog post last night that he's receiving treatment for another bout of cancer and "must slow down" his voracious output. For anyone else, that would mean slowing down a lot.
A cache of recently declassified spy documents of a long forgotten deep-sea adventure reveals a tale that resembles the plot of Ice Station Zebra, a 1968 film that Roger Ebert called "an embarrassment."
Let's keep things in perspective here: the legendary film critic is no stranger to sickness, and he has a tendency to keep his many followers up to date on his every thought, around the clock.
If the Republican National Convention was GOP Christmas, then Clint Eastwood and his chair played the role of the rambling uncle that needed to be put to bed hours ago.
Roger Ebert's feelings about movie lists are well documented, but he really loves The Tree of Life. In fact, he loved it enough to add it to his list of the greatest 10 movies of all time.
Surely someone's filmed sadder scene than 1995's 'The Champ'
The social network temporarily removes Ebert's Facebook page
The film critic scolds the Jackass star--hours after his death--for drunk driving
It's also 'darker and harsher' than you'd expect
Claims he broke his own record by penning the winning New Yorker caption once more
The film critic has been sending in entries for five years
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