Later, she says, they found surprising ways to communicate. I thought before that he was too sentimental, but now I get it.’” “He started listening to Sinatra: ‘But now the days grow short, I’m in the autumn of the year,’” she sings, “‘and now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs.’ We were holding hands, and we were both crying.Īnd he said, ‘Now I get Sinatra. “I had always liked Frank Sinatra - and Roger would say, ‘I don’t quite get him.’ “When Roger went into the hospital in 2006 for surgery, he had loaded over a thousand songs onto his iPod,” Ebert says. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, front, in a screening room for a photo shoot for People Weekly in 1984. But his illness never stopped them from sharing the things they loved. In the film, Chaz is shown in the hospital with her husband, who lost most of his jaw to cancer and, with it, his ability to speak. It’s highlighted in “Life Itself,” out Friday, a new documentary about Ebert, who died in April 2013. Roger Ebert, the world’s most famous film critic, is forever linked with Gene Siskel and their “thumbs up/thumbs down” rulings - started and made famous on their TV show “At the Movies.”īut Ebert had a more important partnership: his relationship with his wife, Chaz Ebert.
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