ROGER EBERT RECEIVES STAR ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
Film critic Roger Ebert gestures as he makes comments during a Hollywood Walk of Fame unveiling ceremony honoring Ebert with the 2,288th star on the famous walkway in Los Angeles June 23, 2005. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)
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CHICAGO, April 23 (UPI) -- Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz have donated $1 million to his alma mater, the University of Illinois, the famed film critic announced.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Roger Ebert has confirmed a fellow U.S. film critic "whacked" him with something at a screening but insists the incident was blown out of proportion.
TORONTO, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A New York film critic allegedly yelled at and hit Roger Ebert after Ebert tapped him on the shoulder at a screening, the New York Daily News reported.
CHICAGO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Participants of a Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago gala say movie reviewer Roger Ebert is an inspiration for surviving multiple bouts with cancer.
BURBANK, Calif., July 22 (UPI) -- Critics Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz have been named the new hosts of "At The Movies," the long-running U.S. film review program, it was announced Tuesday.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
CHICAGO, April 1 (UPI) -- Famed film critic Roger Ebert wrote a letter to his readers in the Chicago Sun-Times saying he is now cancer-free and ready to get back to reviewing movies.
CHICAGO, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert is to receive the Gotham Award, a prize awarded to only one other film critic, The New Yorker's late Pauline Kael.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The words Hollywood craves -- "two thumbs up" -- are gone while reviewer Roger Ebert and Disney-ABC work on a renewal of "At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper."
