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The Day I Read a Really Terrific Story.
By briantologist | February 18, 2010
Apparently it’s been making the round on the Internets of late, but I read this story about Roger Ebert for the first time today and it moved me in a way I have trouble fully expressing. I love reading about him and his wife, and how they are when they’re together after decades of marriage. I love how you get to see him giddy after an incredible film. Reading about his face now that it’s half gone, I could completely picture him enraged or morose, even with his strange loose smile permanently hanging where his jaw isn’t.
It’s just an incredibly fucking well-written story, is what I’m getting at here, and the bonus is that Esquire links to Ebert’s response (also good) and a profile Ebert wrote of Lee Marvin in 1970 that Ebert considers among his best work (it is). I am now compelled to read Chris Jones’s other stuff from Esquire; if it’s a tenth as good, it’ll be worth looking into.
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