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Where is everyone today, detention? Is it just me or is it quiet around here? Well, this dry news piece about Roger Ebert’s effort to bring At the Movies back from cancellation ought to get people TALKING! From the Sun Times:
“Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies,” a weekly half-hour film review program, was announced today by its producers, Chaz and Roger Ebert. The program continues the 35-year-old run of a reviewing format first introduced by Gene Siskel and Ebert and later by Ebert and Richard Roeper.
It will return to its birthplace, launching nationally on public television with presenting station WTTW Chicago, where it began in 1975 as “Opening Soon at a Theater Near You” and then in 1976 as “Sneak Previews,” became the highest rated entertainment show in PBS history. The original format moved into syndication as “At the Movies” in 1982 with Tribune Entertainment and a quarter-century with Buena Vista Television.
The Eberts said the new program will air in January 2011, and in addition to reviewing new movies will expand into coverage of New Media, special segments on classics, on-demand viewing and genres, and an extended website. It will use the copyrighted “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down”® format made famous by Siskel & Ebert.
The program’s principal co-hosts will be Christy Lemire, film critic of The Associated Press, and Elvis Mitchell of National Public Radio. Lemire began reviewing for AP in 1999 and was named its first full-time film critic in 2004. She is a Los Angeles native with a mother who loved Fellini and a father who loved Bogart. Mitchell is a former film critic for The New York Times and a contributor to NPR. He hosted the highly-regarded “Black List” series on TCM, a series of living portraits with prominent African Americans of many backgrounds.
OMG! CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT? (Head falls off. Body buries itself in the ground. Someone needs a nap.)
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Guess who else is speechless.
I hope you never run out of these.
at first i was like “really?” and then “still?” and now i’m like “this has totally won me over.”
I like clicking on your profile and just looking at all those Keenan faces.
I’m gonna do it right now!
Whoa.
yaaaay! Ebert is awesome.
I give him Two Thumbs Up, way way way way way way way way up
or you would…if it wasn’t COPYRIGHTED!
“Pay up.” – Gene Siskel’s children.
Awesome.
I for one was in detention:
It is Friday, the sky is clear and I feel like walking to the pawn shop just to look. FRIDAY! EBERT! FRIDAY!
What’s the typical merchandise at your pawn shop? Mine’s got a lot of guitars–so many guitars!–and jewelry, of course. A few lamps. The one in the last place I lived was full of radios, but that was in 1990.
Well mostly car stereos and guns, but I like to look at the guitars. They are all really cheap shredder guitars.
This was me earlier today:
Now I’m all:
Weeks that start off with a holiday are always funky, especially this week with it being back to school and all the wildly inappropriate taboo meme-ing. Just close up your Trapperkeepers kids, throw them in your Jansports, and don’t open it up until Monday. It’s the weekend!!!
Be safe.
This has been the longest short week of my life.
“One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts — ‘Being John Malkovich,’ ‘Human Nature,’ ‘Adaptation’ and now ‘Sunshine’ — sound like titles from REM’s ‘Reckoning’.”
ELVIS MITCHELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN
I love that dude.
yes!!!
I’M CONFUSED. IS EBERT only acting as PRODUCER? Or writer? OR what?
apparently, he’s a producer, but will also have his own segment called “Roger’s Desk” I imagine it’d be like Andy Rooney, [only not bitter, old, crazy and just plain ridiculous] where he comments on movies in theaters, on DVD, stuff onDemand and on Netflix watch instantly that he’s recently revisited as well as New Media.
just a guess. I haven’t read the full article yet, but here:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/pages-for-twitter/roger-ebert-presents-at-the-moe.html
YEAH! Lovin’ that logo/title card!
I think the reason it’s so quiet is all the jews are out rosh hashannaing.
“it ain’t easy being white, it ain’t easy being brown”
&
where is the true blood recap, GABE? (snooki wants to know)