After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000.

Ebert began his professional critic career in 1967, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times.

In 1975, Ebert and Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune began co-hosting a weekly film review television show, Sneak Previews, which was locally produced by the Chicago public broadcasting station WTTW.

" Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, " Caddyshack feels more like a movie that was written rather loosely, so that when shooting began there was freedom-too much freedom-for it to wander off in all directions in search of comic inspiration ".

Following the Januarstreik in January 1918, a strike demanding an end to the war and better food provisioning that was organized by revolutionaries affiliated with the USPD and officially supported by the party, the USPD quickly rose to about 120, 000 members ; despite harsh criticism of the SPD for becoming part of the government of the newly formed German republic during the Oktoberreform, the USPD reached a settlement with the SPD as the Novemberrevolution began, and even became part of the government in the form of the Rat der Volksbeauftragten (" council of people's deputies "), which was formed on November 10, 1918 and mutually led by Friedrich Ebert and Hugo Haase following the German Revolution.

After Siskel's death, the producers of Siskel & Ebert hired other film critics and began using them on a rotating basis as an audition for a permanent successor.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, praising the film's visual artistry but stating that there is " no narrative engine to pull us past the visual scenery ", and that he " suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination.

The series itself began in 1986 as Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, when Siskel and Ebert signed with Buena Vista Entertainment, the television division of Disney.

For a time, negative Ebert reviews still received no thumb but later began receiving a thumbs-down.

" Siskel declined to comment on the new arrangement, but Ebert publicly criticized Siskel's Tribune bosses for punishing Siskel for taking their television program to a company other than Tribune Entertainment.

" Roger Ebert gave it 3. 5 out of four stars and called it " new and fresh and not shy of taking chances "; the film " achieves a kind of magnificent goofiness.

Ebert believed the film's visual effects were as revolutionary as Star Wars, taking into account that Nightmare was " filled with imagination that carries us into a new world ".

" Roger Ebert reported that Oldman's denunciation of the film never happened, and quoted Urbanski as saying Oldman is " the least political person I know " ( against outlets calling him a " conservative " for his comments ) and taking credit for producing the film independently from DreamWorks, which eventually adopted it.

This public rebuke was discontinued when Ebert decided the studios were not taking it seriously.

Roger Ebert agreed, but praised Spade for taking on a different role than he is normally associated with, and added that Spade's performance was convincing, despite the film's other shortcomings.

Prior to Ebert taking over as VP / GM in Setptember 2009, Monica Ortega held the position from 2008-2009 as the only female general manager in the Northwest League.

Ebert attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while

" Ebert states that " if you know it's all special effects, and if you've seen a lot of other movies and have a sense of humor, you might have a great time at Evil Dead 2.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars, praising the film for being " boldly operatic, involving family drama, secrets, generations at war, melodrama, romance and violence ".

He opposed both the leftist German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, a principled position that defied the political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented Friedrich Ebert, the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as minister or ambassador.

The new film system MaxiVision 48 films at 48 frames per second, which, according to film critic Roger Ebert, offers even a strobeless tracking shot past picket fences.

Space Cowboys was critically well received and holds a 79 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, although Roger Ebert wrote that the film was, " too secure within its traditional story structure to make much seem at risk.

Janet Maslin in The New York Times said Spacey was at his " wittiest and most agile " to date, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a man who " does reckless and foolish things who doesn't deceive himself ".

While at the University of Illinois, Ebert worked as a reporter for the The Daily Illini and then served as its editor during his senior year while also continuing to work as a reporter for the News-Gazette of Champagne-Urbana, Illinois ( he had begun at the News-Gazette at age 15 covering Urbana High School sports ).

Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge, who hired Ebert as a reporter and feature writer at the Sun-Times in 1966.

Ebert has described his critical approach to films as " relative, not absolute "; he reviews a film for what he feels will be its prospective audience, yet always with at least some consideration as to its value as a whole.

Herzog dedicated his 2008 film Encounters at the End of the World to Ebert, and Ebert responded with a heartfelt public letter of gratitude.

Ebert is a strong advocate for Maxivision 48, in which the movie projector runs at 48 frames per second, as compared to the usual 24 frames per second.

On the day of the Academy Award ceremony, Ebert and Roeper typically appear on the live pre-awards show, An Evening at the Academy Awards: The Arrivals.

Roger Ebert founded his own film festival, Ebertfest, in his home town of Champaign, Illinois and is also a regular fixture at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

A supporter of the Democratic Party, Ebert publicly urged liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to give a politically charged acceptance speech at the Academy Awards: " I'd like to see Michael Moore get up there and let ' em have it with both barrels and really let loose and give them a real rabble-rousing speech.

During a 1996 panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Conference on World Affairs, Ebert coined The Boulder Pledge, by which he vowed never to purchase anything offered through the result of an unsolicited email message, or to forward chain emails or mass emails to others.

* James D. Ebert † — Chesapeake Institute of Johns Hopkins University

After receiving his undergraduate degree from Illinois in 1964, Ebert spent a semester as a master's student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town in South Africa on a Rotary fellowship for a year.

The load of graduate school and being a film critic proved too much, so Ebert left University of Chicago to focus his energies on reporting.

Since the 1970s, Ebert has worked for the University of Chicago as a guest lecturer, teaching a night class on film.

By January 2011, Ebert had been given a prosthesis for his chin created by University of Illinois craniofacial doctors and other specialists.

* An Illini Century: One Hundred Years of Campus Life ( no ISBN ) – the history of the first 100 years of the University of Illinois, edited by Ebert in 1967

Roger Ebert is a native of the adjoining town of Urbana, Illinois and is an alumnus of the University.

Ebert often speaks of having attended films at the Virginia while growing up in Champaign-Urbana and attending the University.

While participating with Ebert in a panel discussion at Yale University, he was confronted by an angry woman who accused him of being " nothing but a breast man.

* Roger Ebert, film critic, was editor-in-chief of the Daily Illini in 1963 – 64, when he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.