By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Westboro Baptist Church members announced Monday their newest target: movie critic Roger Ebert's funeral.
By many accounts, "The Iron Lady" credits Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of objective feminist who overcame long odds through force of will and personality in rising to the top of a male-dominated political arena. That wasn't enough for Mr. Ebert. "Was she a monster? A heroine?" he demanded. "The movie has no opinion." Guess which one she was in the critic's opinion.
Acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert was praised on Monday as a consummate Chicago newsman, a champion of storytellers and a visionary who understood the power of social media to spread the word about everything from good movies to his battle with the cancer that ended his life.
Connecticut officially banned 100 weapons in response to the Newtown tragedy and famed movie critic Roger Ebert passed away at age 70. On the international stage, Kim Jong-Un ratcheted up the war rhetoric by threatening to use nuclear weapons on U.S. cities. Here's a recap, or wrap, on the week that was from The Washington Times:
Famed film critic Roger Ebert died Thursday afternoon, a day after announcing he was taking a "leave of presence" after learning his cancer had returned, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. He was 70.
Film critic Roger Ebert, 70, announced his 46th year of writing for the Chicago Sun-Times with sad news: He's taking a "leave of presence" following a fracture that he just learned was the result of cancer.
Back in the Oscar season of 2007, Eddie Murphy should have been riding a career high as the front-running contender to win the best supporting actor award for "Dreamgirls" on his first-ever nomination. Instead, he lost the award, but most pundits thought that had nothing to do with his acting, nor his mercurial personality.
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome _ to middle age.
The Rolling Stones have been added to the list of artists performing at the Superstorm Sandy benefit concert this week in New York City.
Famed Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert has been hospitalized with a hip fracture.
Famed Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert has been hospitalized with a hip fracture.
Joe Wright's ambitious, technically dazzling adaptation of "Anna Karenina," set almost entirely within the confines of a decaying 19th-century theater, inspires this week's list: five movies that are so super-stylized, their artifice is part of the art.
The rebirth of black independent film is taking place in a small office in the San Fernando Valley.
The song remains the same, as Led Zeppelin once observed. But Zeppelin fans can visit the band's music anew thanks to a film of the rock titans' last show together in 2007 — which also was the band's first full show in 27 years.
Critic Roger Ebert is receiving an award from Robert Redford's Sundance Institute for his support of independent cinema.
To the longtime film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, her military reply to the Argentine invasion of the disputed islands was a pointless and anachronistic exercise in British imperialism (even if, as he acknowledged, Argentina did precipitate the hostilities).
Roger Ebert on 'The Iron Lady': Margaret Thatcher lacked feelings →
"In a striking scene that takes place in her increasingly senile old age, she declares that ideas are more important to her than feelings," he wrote. "That seems to have been a governing principle in her life, allowing her to look with apparently limited concern at unemployment, hunger and homelessness."
Roger Ebert on 'The Iron Lady': Margaret Thatcher lacked feelings →
