The Legacy of Roger Ebert

what looked like everybody that night which christiane airlines of the role they had no movie review in this segment just a discussion of uh... of roger ebert to uh... christine i have had pretty particularly but uh... i had the i have replaced ta and uh... uh... and a bit of a burden so we should talk a little rock salt on our on roger you worked for him he hired you don't need to be even knew him and or to be a new version have that's all you is that there's a new genes cash their highlighted in india richard rover restless no bad products such as idealize yes tell what roger got sick and he couldn't speak anymore they had taken rotating captive fasten the people who filled in opposite richard anton he'd like to be and i was a good and lot of women don't do what i do is they chose me and i was telling florida and when he emailed me and asked me how i did co-hosts this thing with richard high-crime like a little girl that i was is a catharsis if so overwhelmingly his person a towering figure in what we do and ellen hume sixteen percent of faith and trust this okay he was flatly and he never hubbard and he hand wisdom is that is really funny kinda conspiratorial emails all hours of the day night and lifetime the subject line would be during your computer and that's how you think i did you see this coming from roger i think that if he continues his pay played ball in that and and and what they mean you dot with a lot to chicago he was always very warm to you listen to him or any other jewelry the first paragraph of the thing i wrote for critic workers i'll do it by said you know replace roger ebert said mister literally there are many people can say that i cannot say largely failed my attempt to replace roger failed publicly as most of you know rogers has turned out is irreplaceable you know it's like replacing mickey mantle in center field john wooden on the u_c_l_a_ daschle's export referencing how many uh... you know but he was so that was a that was both a great time my life when i got that job in two thousand eight uh... after that rotation gone after roger and richard what broke with one of the stickers they couldn't come to a deal they couldn't they make me over there was a straight money guilt wasn't like they wanted to jettison humbly but not here to defend what ever since uh... and that was uh... a great a break-in in my life and then also it's very difficult you know as i wrote in this uh... never have i go on in your room in my life and felt last welcome in the room as when i went into the screenings in japan as much worse for about a lot but that said the person who was the warmest tumi all was was rupture uh... he was always kind he sent me emails he was in courage in even though it was very clear that he hated this show paid i think our nation and he did have a situation of the show well i mean i i did used to talk on that tonight and and i'm so that's a really mean to that lets you would say drilling decent guy a smart guy and and never have a shot may have been the wrong choice but was within the served but roger was always incredibly uh... kind and decent and didn't have to be at all and and we you know email each other and and and you know i don't want to overstated it wasn't like we were uh... but it was a meaningful connection for me even if it wasn't terribly club sanchez was always great to meet him there i thought it was really generous i mean i grew and literally grew up watching the sky mean i remember when i was about nine or ten he in jean did an episode of this was still sneak previews you know what he has where they talked about how they reviewed movies like the whole process of them going to screenings and what they're up a lot and i reverted grabbing a path and taking notes like i was so excited they were going to sort of political they are on how well the stopped working now uh... and then my encounter with him was night ninety five it was a just become the artistic director of the u_s_a_ compensable in dallas and it was the twenty-fifth anniversary festival and it was on my shoulders put together this whole thing it was kind of terrifying and luckily he was able to come and it was before he had created his own personal that happens around the same time now uh... and that we were showing the mi familia and he's a big gregory novice and going way back so came in the budget committee is presented the great director for the divorce rate or because the two of them had been uh... cope analysts at the early incarnation of you as a proposal that film critics picking the building trader you know sort of socratic so they were all buddies and he was just so generous with me and when you're giving me advice about things like i was doing which is the woman who should stop at the theater and the film makers were all going out to dinner news like no you need to come to the editor editorial okay yes you're right up until just stuff like that i think just whenever there's a way that i came to a disorder begin about this terrified twenty seven-year-old through this complicated process and they're really supportive and said great things about the first of all the talk about them jazz came with them and i've never met her before she was just lovely and and i would see them you know years denote that other festivals years after they were always super sweden uh... damages oh he was an idol of mine and then the turnout actually as you know sometimes you meet your idols inside of that and i wish i didn't know and he did not disappoint he really was with what you would want would be there when you meet somebody who really moldable your wife was in front of the what you're saying about how how decency west u_s_ eight is part and his man of the world kind of element of his great complex prasoon and it also manifested and his writing in in a outside of town throughout the nation a top executives dying inside a film like alcoholism eight years in everything in the world the people he the rice let me know if you don't advocate uprights cooking recipes they communicate but the far-flung correspondents the he asserted anything like that agrees ebola truly truly was as far as point to make connections with people on the multitude of at least it was a and you know i read some he was a newspaper he was like old-school determined he'd love that whole made it clear that he loves being in the newsroom the conversations that one on allot of the word not movies but some of them with the but there would have been conversations about food politics that we've learned that he was so you know that i was a weird those opposed to marty new but i mean you know he cared so deeply about politics and twitter opened up this whole world to him uh... of things that he could talk about uh... and i thought the net chris jones peace in esquire that uh... which was really revealing uh... that peace and uh... you know if you're back but you know it was and it showed him ad that you know with it what would become of his jaw and the end of how we looked at that time and he wrote some sort of honestly about like at first he was taken aback he gasped when he saw his own picture and then he thought this is a lot you know this is what it is so this is not the time for me to be back asking for a touch up or a rewrite uh... and i think that sort of honesty about everything uh... in his reviews and in his assessment of his own life was uh... you know that i think that's rare and i think he clearly had and i think it's one of the things that all of a sort of responded to him as the you've read something got them you knew right away this is really genuine and really authentic so i think and we've been kicked out then what did he did which was so amazing would help if we all do if she walked in every movie with open mind and open-heart you're going to be gaveled and it's very easy for us to get cynical totally and it's safe to get cynical that's protected he was always open so i know we have to act and alan that and sad miserable as they were graded he got a bad rap of the time to be on the road also great there renting here