By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California — In 1943 two highly unlikely collaborators quarreled their way through a movie script that earned the anxious concern of the Breen Office (administrator of the industry’s moral censorship guidelines), and was nominated for seven Academy Awards without winning any. The collaborators were Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and the […]

By Cynthia Citron ENCINO, California —  To anyone who only knew film critic Roger Ebert from his television persona, arguing with his long-time colleague Gene Siskel, you might characterize Ebert as “the grumpy one.”  But when he died this week after a 10-year battle with cancer, the heartfelt tributes from his friends and fellow critics emphatically