[Leica] Roger Ebert

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. He must have had tongue firmly in cheek when 
he penned that. Even the names of the characters were lame (Lance Rock?). As 
I recall, it ended with Mr. Rock being beheaded by a giant sword or two.

Not one of my favorites, but better than Peter L. Marshall's "Mary Jane".

Jeffery Smith



On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I grew up on the north shore of Chicago in the sixties. Northfield. Next to
> Winnetka on the east. The Gillikins to the north.
> On my street, Riverside Drive there was about forty houses and they all had
> blue plastic Chicago Tribune newspaper tubes  attached  to their mail boxes
> at the end of their newly blacktopped driveways. You should see them all
> lined up as you looked down each side of the street with its newly planted
> trees and Hamilton, Lexington, Arlington (split level) and Concord freshly
> built houses. We lived in a Hamilton reversed. I played in all the houses 
> as
> they built them. 
> At the end of our driveway our mail box was the only one which was not blue
> and ours said "Sun Times" on it.
> As we were the only Democrats on the block.
> Going to the movies was a very big deal for me then as now and I'd read the
> review written by the new young skinny guy they had working for them - 
> Roger
> Ebert.
> He seldom let me down if it said it was a good flick it was a good flick.
> Later  from critics I got the opposite of that.
> The Trib readers voted for Nixon or Goldwater and read Siskel.
> The Sun Times readers voted for Kennedy or Johnson and read Ebert.
> Siskel by the way was very ok.
> 
> Later Ebert was the first critic to win the Pulitzer prize and became by 
> far
> on the order of a million the most influential film critic in the history 
> of
> the universe.
> And we knew him when.
> 
> He wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls which is widely known to be the
> greatest movie every made in all time. I have the black Centurion edition 
> of
> it a hand signed limited edition.  (it really is good)
> 
> By the way the last time  I saw my Blow up DVD I listened to Ebert's voice
> in the background instead of the usual and it was amazing his insight into
> the whole thing. But no technical camera advice.
> 
> 
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> 
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