{"id":14846,"date":"2014-05-25T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14846"},"modified":"2014-05-25T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T17:56:13","slug":"a-fantastic-cameo-in-the-roger-ebert-documentary-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/25\/a-fantastic-cameo-in-the-roger-ebert-documentary-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"A <em>Fantastic<\/em> cameo in the Roger Ebert documentary trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Life Itself<\/em>, a documentary about film critic Roger Ebert, will be released  July 4th. I have no idea how much time will be spent on his period as a member of science fiction fandom&#8212;something you can learn more about in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2010\/03\/02\/my-interview-with-roger-ebert\/\">an interview I did with him<\/a> for <em>Sci-Fi Entertainment<\/em> in 1997&#8212;but his SF life did make a brief cameo in the documentary&#8217;s trailer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RogerEbertTrailer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RogerEbertTrailer-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"RogerEbertTrailer\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RogerEbertTrailer-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RogerEbertTrailer.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visible on screen at the 29-second mark as one of the interviewees says, &#8220;he wrote a novel,&#8221; is something that isn&#8217;t a novel&#8212;the opening spread of Ebert&#8217;s short story &#8220;After the Last Mass&#8221; from the February 1972 issue of <em>Fantastic<\/em>. As far as I know, Ebert only published two SF short stories, the other being &#8220;In Dying Venice,&#8221; which appeared in the  May 1972 of <em>Amazing Science Fiction<\/em>, so I was glad to see one of them making an appearance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Ebert, who very much seemed one of us, and I look forward to seeing <em>Life Itself<\/em>. Check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4SgwBRq-fU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Itself, a documentary about film critic Roger Ebert, will be released July 4th. I have no idea how much time will be spent on his period as a member of science fiction fandom&#8212;something you can learn more about in an interview I did with him for Sci-Fi Entertainment in 1997&#8212;but his SF life did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,10],"class_list":["post-14846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-roger-ebert","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14856,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions\/14856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}