Roger Ebert was celebrated Monday as a film critic, newspaperman, social-justice soldier, husband, father, grandfather and champion of artists and imagination, but the great cross-section of mourners ...

It was an appropriately gray, overcast and rainy morning for the funeral of beloved film critic Roger Ebert at the Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago. Some of the people lined up outside the ...

Political leaders, relatives and people he had never met, but who chose movies based on the direction of his thumb, praised Roger Ebert. "He didn't just dominate his profession, he defined it," said ...

(CNN) — Roger Ebert got a final “thumbs up” as family, friends and filmmakers eulogized the movie critic at his funeral in Chicago on Monday. Hundreds gathered inside Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral, ...

"Whether or not we knew Roger, we knew he loved Chicago and Chicago loved Roger," the Chicago Tribune quoted Mayor Rahm Emanuel as saying from the podium. "Roger…was able to bring the spirit of ...

A note from Spike Lee and a Hollywood-centric homily highlight services for the legendary critic; says Mayor Rahm Emanuel: "He was the most American of American film critics." By Bill Stamets Chaz ...

Roger Ebert was remembered Monday morning at a funeral mass by his family, colleagues, and fellow Chicagoans as a man who shared himself with the world and fought for social justice. His wife Chaz ...

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