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Life itself : a memoir
- Title
- Life itself : a memoir / Roger Ebert.
- Author
- Ebert, Roger.
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1998.3.E327 A3 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- The film critic best known for his "Chicago Sun-Times" reviews and his thirty years as co-host of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" describes his life and career, including his recovery from alcoholism and the complications from thyroid cancer treatment.
- Subject
- Ebert, Roger
- Film critics > United States > Biography
- Journalism > Chicago > Autobiography
- Motion Pictures
- Thyroid Neoplasms > Autobiography
- Alcoholism > Autobiography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Motion Pictures as Topic
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Film critics
- Film critics > Biography
- Kritiker
- Självbiografier
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography.
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Memory -- 410 East Washington -- My people -- My old man -- My mother -- St. Mary's -- Dan-Dan the yo-yo man -- Summer -- Car, table, counter, or TakHomaSak -- Blackie -- My vocation -- Newspaper days -- High school -- University -- The Daily Illini -- My trip to Hollywood -- Cape Town -- London Peramulating -- Eyrie Mansion -- All by myself alone -- Sun-Times -- My new job -- Zonka -- McHugh -- O'Rourke's -- Leisure of the theory class -- Alcoholism -- Books do furnish a room -- Russ Meyer -- The interviewer -- Lee Marvin -- Robert Mitchum -- Big John Wayne -- "Irving! Brang 'em on!" -- Ingmar Bergman -- Martin Scorcese -- "Fiddle on the corner where the quarters are" -- "I wasn't popular when people thought I was popular" -- Werner Herzog -- Bill Nack -- The sweetest set of wheels in town -- Gene Siskel -- Jugular -- The talk shows -- When I laughed in study hall -- My romances -- Chaz -- Good news and bad news -- Nil by mouth -- Putting a new face on things -- High school reunion -- Studs -- My last words -- How I believe in God -- Go gently.
- ISBN
- 9780446584975
- 0446584975
- 9781455504121
- 1455504122
- 9780446584968
- 0446584967
- LCCN
- 2011022442
- 9780446584975
- OCLC
- ocn707964522
- 707964522
- SCSB-14002778
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library