If you haven’t read the Esquire profile of film critic Roger Ebert, you should. But then you should go over to the Deadspin site, and read a different kind of profile.
Writer Will Leitch didn’t talk to Ebert for this story — well, not recently. When Leitch was a younger man, he actually kept up a running correspondence with Ebert, having first emailed him drunkenly to ask about a rumour that Ebert had once had sex on the university newspaper’s desk.
A later drunken moment, though, ruins everything.
Give it a read — despite everything, Leitch does a pretty good job of portraying Ebert as a person. And a pretty nice, caring person, too.
Grant Hamilton
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These are both great articles. I was flipping the tv channels the night before and caught Roger on Oprah…
Having adored Ebert since childhood, I lapped up the Esquire story. But Leitch’s beat it all to hell. Fabulous — thanks for finding this.