(How can he think no good movie is too long when he has seen "Braveheart"?) In the "Front Page" spirit of Ben Hecht's "Gaily, Gaily" and Arthur Gelb's "City Room," Ebert offers a rollicking ode to Chicago newspapering, which he paints as the most desirable club in the world.
It's a play that sets love against money, the old against the young, and reason against emotion as Mrs Malaprop conspires to marry off her heiress niece, Lydia Languish, to Captain Jack Absolute, with the endorsement of Sir Anthony Absolute, a man used to getting his way in all things and who thinks no good can come from teaching girls to read.
"At first, I thought: 'No, those arguments aren't good ones,"' he told an interviewer from Forbes Magazine in 1975.
I felt as teachers, as professionals, we were expected to say yes, but personally I thought no, it wasn't as good as the double award GCSE".
I just thought 'I'm no good'".
But despite this, 11 out of 36 incumbents lost, usually because voters thought they were no good.
But she never received the results and did not pursue them, she said, because she thought no news was good news, and because no one had told her that her symptoms could mean cancer.
And now you think I'm no good?
I think dating is no good.
[um] But on the other hand if there's any hint of criticism I suddenly think I'm no good.
