Ebertfest

"Roger Ebert: ““The theater of my childhood…where every Saturday we gathered to sit through a gargantuan display of two features, five cartoons, a chapter of a serial, a newsreel...""

"Roger Ebert: “I believe I could serve Mass to this day. There was something satisfying about the sound of Latin.” Roger was an altar boy at the church."

"Roger Ebert: "A turning point in my life came at 8:00 a.m. on the first day of classes at the university, when I walked into English 101, taught by Daniel Curley. He would become my mentor""

"Roger: "I went to Urbana High between 1956 and 1960... We were the first generation after Elvis, and one of the last generations of innocence. We were inventing the myth of the American teenager.""

"Roger Ebert: "Illinois was known as the Greek Capital... I made the rounds during Pledge Week, deciding on Phi Delta Theta and its handsome stone house. This was the top house on campus at the time.""

"Roger Ebert: "We entered a labyrinth so awesome that I now picture it when eating Borges' 'The Library of Babel.' Floor after floor extended above and below, visible through steel catwalks.""