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Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois on June 18, 1942. He was the son of Annabel and Walter H. Ebert (who was an electrician).Regarding his early influences in film critiquing, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies his following words are:"I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas. I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies; I lost it at Mad magazine.
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