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Fondly remembering Roger Ebert… nerdy kid in search of friends, childhood zine editor

By Mark | April 4, 2013

I have very few regrets in life. One of the biggest is not pursuing an interview with writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert more aggressively. (He finds himself in the distinguished company on Don Knotts and Joey Ramone in that regard.) If you haven’t heard, Ebert passed away today at […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1950s, 1983, another famous person has died, atheism, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Bob and Ray, Buck Coulson, cancer, Death, Don Knotts, famous people who published zines, fandom, Gene Siskel, Harlan Ellison, Harvey Kurtzman, Humanism, Joey Ramone, Juanita Coulson, Kate Moss, Kurt Vonnegut, legacies, Lenny Bruce, life after death, memes, Mort Sahl, on facing death, people who we know from television, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, science fiction, self-publishing, Sex Pistols, so it goes, Stan Freberg, Star Wars, Stymie, Xero, Yandro, zine pioneers, zines | 15 Comments

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