{"id":11716,"date":"2016-06-23T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2016-06-23T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:00:54","slug":"sun-times-to-reprint-roger-ebert-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/06\/23\/sun-times-to-reprint-roger-ebert-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Times to reprint Roger Ebert reviews weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Roger Ebert<\/p><\/div>\n

The immortal prose of Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert will be appearing again in the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times,<\/a> his home newspaper for 46 years.<\/p>\n

Starting Friday, the Sun-Times will republish a classic piece, billed as \"From the Ebert Archive,\u201d in its weekly movie section. First up will be Ebert\u2019s 2\u00bd-star review of \u201cIndependence Day,\u201d the 1996 film starring Will Smith.<\/p>\n

A Chicago legend and the most famous film critic in history, Ebert died <\/a>in 2013 at 70 after a heroic battle<\/a> with cancer. His wife, Chaz Ebert, has preserved a digital archive of Ebert\u2019s work at rogerebert.com, <\/a>a website dedicated to his memory. It also features current reviews and essays from a multitude of critics.<\/p>\n

Jim Kirk, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Sun-Times, announced the agreement Thursday in cooperation with Chaz Ebert.<\/p>\n

\"Roger Ebert is such an essential part of the Sun-Times history,\u201d Kirk said. \u201cHis reviews were revered not just for the authoritative criticism but also for the timelessness of the writing. Roger loved his craft. The Sun-Times audience loved Roger. We are honored and thrilled that we could collaborate with Chaz Ebert to bring back a little bit of Roger every week.\"<\/p>\n

Ebert was succeeded as film critic by Richard Roeper, his longtime colleague at the Sun-Times and co-host of the syndicated movie-review show \u201cEbert & Roeper\u201d for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The immortal prose of Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert will be appearing again in the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times, his home newspaper for 46 years. Starting Friday, the Sun-Times will republish a classic piece, billed as \"From the Ebert Archive,\u201d in its weekly movie section. First up will be Ebert\u2019s 2\u00bd-star review of... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}