Goodbye Roger Ebert

I must say goodbye to my friend Roger Ebert. I was so pleased when I was asked to cover the Academy Awards with Roger Ebert.

Wikipedia – Chaz Hammel Smith, Roger Ebert, Nancy Kwan

It was in the first year the Oscars called the Kodak Theater home. It’s now called the Dolby Theater. They had us perched up high to have a complete view of the venue and we had a ball. It was a special year for me with Roger, and it was a special year at The Oscars because Hallie Berry became the first African American woman to take home and The Oscar for Best Actress and Denzel Washington won for Best Actor.

The Oscars is one of my best memories with Roger, but it was in Colorado when we first met and came to know the man who gave us “two thumbs up”. Roger, my husband Phil, Roger’s wife Chaz and I all severed on many panels together at the World Affairs Conference held annually at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We all shared a good amount of time together both personally and professionally, and I will miss his sessions at the Mackey Auditorium where he would conduct a frame by frame analysis of the year’s hottest film.

Roger Ebert will surely be missed. I miss him already.

RIP Roger,

Tanya Hart