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...sports writer with the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, he joined the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1966 and was named the paper's film critic within six months. His byline has appeared in the paper ever since. In the intervening decades, he has won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the host of a nationally-syndicated weekly TV program, in which he and Gene Siskel would assign films their trademarked thumbs-up, or thumbs-down judgments...
...could ever want." The 11th edition of "Ebertfest" kicks off Wednesday at the historic Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign, and will screen a dozen titles including Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg, Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop and Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, which took home the top prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. After a long bout with thyroid cancer and complications that left him unable to speak, Ebert made his first public appearance in nearly a year at the 2007 Ebertfest. "We spend too much time hiding illness," he wrote in a press release, issued just prior...
Holland Cotter ’70, an art critic for the New York Times, received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism on Monday at Columbia University. Cotter received his award for four articles about art in China, which he wrote during a trip there last summer before the 2008 Summer Olympics. Awarded since 1970, The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism honors “distinguished criticism, in print or online,” according to the Pulitzer Web site. Cotter has been on staff at the New York Times since 1998, focusing on the New York City arts scene...
...March, he received the first SEAS Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising, a prize that recognizes both advising sensitivity and successful curricular experience...
Rozsa headed back to Hungary, to journalism, authoring several books of essays, memoirs and poetry and converting to Islam. In 2002, he starred in a film, named Chico - his nickname - based on his own life. It won first prize in Hungary's film festival in 2002. During this time, he seems to have taken a renewed interest in his birth country, Bolivia. "Santa Cruz is something that is omnipresent in my life," he said in a 2006 interview. "A constant. At the heart, I am cruceno" a denizen of Santa Cruz. On his website Sic Semper Tyrannus (Thus Always Tyranny...