If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

in a way [director Lynch's] behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character"). As an undergraduate he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and president of the U.

As of 2010 Ebert's movie reviews are syndicated in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and worldwide by Universal Press Syndicate. He has honorary degrees from the University of Colorado the AFI Conservatory and in 2007 the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.