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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money - Chaz Ebert on Life Without Roger

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Since Roger Ebert's death in 2013, his wife Chaz says they still communicate in unique and powerful ways. If that sounds out of the ordinary, so is the story of how they fell in love.

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0:00.0

The word widow, that word almost makes you feel alone.

0:03.9

I think that's why in the beginning I rejected it.

0:07.3

And people would say they would write Roger's widow.

0:09.9

And I would say, no, please write Roger's wife.

0:14.0

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

0:18.0

I'm not afraid of death.

0:19.2

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:22.4

Is the subject of sex being over-exploited by our mass media?

0:26.6

And need to talk about more.

0:28.4

Where's the money, LaBausky?

0:30.9

I'm in a sale.

0:36.0

Chaz Ebert married her husband Roger in 1992.

0:39.3

She was 39, a divorced lawyer and mother of two.

0:43.3

He was 50 and up to that point a lifelong bachelor.

0:47.3

Roger was already famous.

0:49.3

His poetic, populist film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times

0:53.3

had earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

0:55.8

He was best known, though, for his thumb, whether it was up or down, and for sparring with Gene Siskel on their TV show.

1:02.6

Benji, the hunted, exhausted me.

1:04.7

I don't know, Gene. Your review is the typical sort of blasé, sophisticated, cynical review.

1:10.3

I'll take the one sophisticated. I would expect from an adult.

1:13.4

You're wrapping yourself in the flag of children, and I'm saying...

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