Doug Love Movies

Hey everybody, my name is Doug and I Love Movies.

This is a Doug Loves Movies Shorty coming to you from a hotel room in San Diego, California,

where I did a stand-up show yesterday at the American Comedy Company,

and I'll play the rowdy and noisy audio of Graham Elwood playing a Leonard Malton game against

audience members from the end of that show at the end of this mini. Since last I spoke and you

listened, we lost a great man. Roger Ebert died at 70 after a long battle with cancer.

He was seeing movies and writing about them all the way up to his death.

I dare say he loved movies more than I do.

He was certainly more eloquent about it than I am.

I grew up watching Siskel and Ebert on their various movie review shows, starting with sneak previews on PBS.

And I just, since I was a kid, I loved that there was a weekly half-hour show that just talked about the latest movies.

And I'll never forget at the time they gave wise guys, Brian De Palma's wise guys, two enthusiastic thumbs

up.

And I'll never forget that because that was a truly horrid movie.

Even as a young man, I was just like, what?

Why do these guys like this movie so much?

But maybe I should watch it again, you know,

for Roger and for Gene. Anyway, his funeral, Roger Ebert's funeral is happening as I speak,

and if I were there to eulogize him, I would say that I will miss his reviews and his tweets and his film festival, which I am happy to say I attended for the first time last year.

Got it in under the wire. It was great to see him in person and all the great movies that he picked for us to watch.

So enjoy your balcony seats in the sky, Roger.

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