{"id":81111,"date":"2024-01-23T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2039013"},"modified":"2024-01-23T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:14:14","slug":"stephen-hunter-fondly-remembers-roger-ebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/stephen-hunter-fondly-remembers-roger-ebert\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hunter Fondly Remembers Roger Ebert"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2007, Stephen Hunter got the call that so many film critics before him hoped to receive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The then-Washington Post chief film critic filled in for Roger Ebert on \u201cAt the Movies\u201d with Richard Roeper.<\/p>\n

There had been rotating guests joining the famous balcony week after week as Ebert battled cancer. The Chicago-based scribe eventually lost his ability to speak in 2006.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Ebert\u2019s absence, some inspired choices were joining Roeper. You were just as likely to see critics like Michael Phillips as you were to watch \u201cClerks\u201d director Kevin Smith<\/a> or \u201cArcher\u201d actress Aisha Tyler.<\/p>\n

John Mellencamp even joined for a bizarre and bizarrely entertaining episode of Ebert\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

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Before Ebert left, \u201cAt the Movies\u201d had brought on critics like Elvis Mitchell and others following Gene Siskel\u2019s passing in 1999<\/a>. Hunter was a movie critic then, but he\u2019d have to wait until the same year the first film adaptation of his novels, 2007\u2019s underrated \u201cShooter,\u201d was hitting the big screen to grace the movie criticism majors, so to speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got around to me real late,\u201d Hunter joked in an interview with Hollywood in Toto promoting his latest book, \u201cFront Sight.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s episode was actually the last to use the thumbs up\/thumbs down rating system, made famous by Siskel and Ebert decades earlier. Ebert owned the copyright<\/a> and parted ways with the show in 2007.<\/p>\n

The rating system would eventually be revived for a new version of the show hosted by Christy Lemire<\/a> and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, but Hunter and Roeper were the last to use the potentially deadly thumbs in the version of the show so many remember.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had always had a great admiration for, him and he towered in my imagination,\u201d Hunter recalled of Ebert.
\nAfter co-hosting with Roeper, Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert<\/a>, who now runs his website, took Hunter and his wife to a restaurant they recommended for dinner.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very good to me. He was one of the few film critics who congratulated me when I won the Pulitzer,\u201d Hunter sad<\/p>\n

Siskel and Ebert\u2019s legacy has found some renewed interest thanks to Matt Singer\u2019s new book, \u201cOpposable Thumbs.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ebert in many ways stands as the the beginning and end of a particular era of film criticism. He was such a significant figure through his writing, analysis and energetic love of movies that the industry almost called for a seismic shift after he passed away in 2013.<\/p>\n

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Obituary: Roger Ebert was the best-known film reviewer of his generation, and one of the most trusted http:\/\/t.co\/aeEKdfYfID<\/a><\/p>\n

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n