tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post2528757371405411908..comments2024-03-26T10:26:51.288-04:00Comments on Jim Leff's Slog: Roger Ebert's Vanishingly Brief Film-Hounding PeriodJim Leffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-75925012366086314752013-04-04T23:56:14.431-04:002013-04-04T23:56:14.431-04:00"That was a really important lesson."
..."That was a really important lesson."<br /><br /><br />Yes, though it was a lesson that's taken for granted by most people nowadays...thanks to the tireless advocacy of people like Roger Ebert.<br /><br />I always tried to do the same with food. "Deliciousness is deliciousness", one of the chowhound rallying cries which leveled hierarchies, was really saying the same thing. Snobs and reverse snobs both miss treasure. What a shame!James Leffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645526020049321126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-17697933276091076272013-04-04T23:25:56.922-04:002013-04-04T23:25:56.922-04:00I studied English Lit in college. I was completely...I studied English Lit in college. I was completely tied up in reading things I had to study -- not just because it was assigned to me but because I thought that's what lit students did. I was always a big movie fan -- I can bore you for hours going on about the silent era, which I still think was cinema's richest and most creative period.<br /><br />What I learned from Ebert was that it's ok to read a Stephen King novel and like it. It's ok to watch a superhero movie or Lord of the Rings and have a good time. That everything didn't have to be compared to the great; that it was ok to enjoy a thing for what it was. That was a really important lesson. Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10879674319068543589noreply@blogger.com