![]() ![]() ![]() For proof, read his account of a visit to Franco Zeffirelli’s set for Romeo and Juliet. Whenever offered, his first-hand impressions of productions, movie stars and trends are insightful and peerless. Also the screenwriter of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, and published author of books like I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, he knows the guts of the film industry. ![]() Including such classics as Breathless and The Rules of the Game along with crowd-pleasers like A Christmas Story and Goldfinger, Ebert writes the rhapsody of a longtime movie fan. So it’s with no surprise that his latest book, The Great Movies II, is both brilliant and troubling the showcase for his thumb as de facto movie opinion for everyday people. For years he’s cut studio behemoths down to size and plucked independent masterworks from obscurity. Bespectacled, gray-haired and chubby, Roger Ebert is a pop icon and possessor of the world’s most famous thumb. ![]()
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