I love Roger Ebert. He even sent me an e-mail once. I wish I still had it. It was probably about 8 years ago. He was writing about the movie "The Insider" and someone asked him about pollsters hanging out after the movie and asking what they thought of it. His column implied that he didn't know who was behind it and I forwarded him a link from Bloomberg News that said that RJ Reynolds and/or Phillip Morris were paying for those polls to see if there was enough public opinion to support a lawsuit against the filmmakers.
He wrote back and said that he knew about it, but it was the damn copy editors who screwed with what he wrote (and even sent me the paragraph he turned in). I always think of that e-mail when the stuff I write gets edited. I mean he's won a frickin' Pulitizer Prize (Pauline Kael never even won one)!
I also have an autographed 5x7 photo of Siskel and Ebert that I will always treasure.
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ChrisB said on August 3, 2007:
I love Roger Ebert. He even sent me an e-mail once. I wish I still had it. It was probably about 8 years ago. He was writing about the movie "The Insider" and someone asked him about pollsters hanging out after the movie and asking what they thought of it. His column implied that he didn't know who was behind it and I forwarded him a link from Bloomberg News that said that RJ Reynolds and/or Phillip Morris were paying for those polls to see if there was enough public opinion to support a lawsuit against the filmmakers.
He wrote back and said that he knew about it, but it was the damn copy editors who screwed with what he wrote (and even sent me the paragraph he turned in). I always think of that e-mail when the stuff I write gets edited. I mean he's won a frickin' Pulitizer Prize (Pauline Kael never even won one)!
I also have an autographed 5x7 photo of Siskel and Ebert that I will always treasure.