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...Roger Ebert has made a regular habit of championing independent films and little-known directors. And so it was in November of 1967 when, after being a film critic for only seven months, he went out on a limb to lavish praise on a first-time filmmaker by the name of Martin Scorsese - penning the first-ever writeup for this unknown New Yorker whose debut feature I Call First premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival...
...Ebert on Goodfellas: "[Henry Hill] loves it when the head waiters know his name, but he doesn't really have the stuff to be a great villain ... he wants the prizes, but he doesn't want to pay for the tickets. And it's there, on the crux of that paradox, that the movie becomes Scorsese's metaphor for so many modern lives. ... He simply uses organized crime as an arena for a story about a man who likes material things so much that he sells his own soul to buy them...
...Long before they ever met each other, these two were kindred spirits. Scorsese's films spoke with a tone that Ebert had never heard before, and Ebert was Scorsese's champion well before the director became a household name. As the two have grown old and famous together, this back-and-forth has become a compelling - perhaps even defining - dialogue in their careers. "We have never become close friends. It is best that way," Ebert writes in his introduction. "We talk whenever he has a new film coming out, or at tributes, industry events, or film festivals. We have dinner...
...While Banksy made his name - or, rather, pseudonym - painting stenciled political and satirical images out-of-doors, in recent years his commercial pieces, including drawings, paintings and installations, have sold at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the same time, Banksy continues to create the street artwork he's famous for. The Westminster piece depicts a child in a red, hooded sweatshirt on a ladder painting the slogan "One Nation Under CCTV" in large letters, as a U.S.-style police officer with a camera and a dog stand nearby. CCTV is Britain's system of closed-circuit public...
...meantime, don't expect Stevens to be waiting for permission from anyone to defend his name and his legacy. As his old friend Roderick put it, "Yeah, he'll keep on fighting. That's the only thing he knows...