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11月10日 Ebert's Golden RulesRoger Ebert's rules for a film critic. So, so many and so, so true. If you've ever suffered a "Day of the Locust" like movie junket (and I've only done four junkets my entire career -- one of which would have made Nathaniel West shudder -- but I was never flown out, never courted with freebies, and never ate "cute little hamburgers") -- this rule I view as golden. Let someone else take the photo -- always. But never at a junket or during an interview or any time you are going to review a movie. Unless the star asks -- which is actually kind of great when they do.
 In that case, Ebert's rightfully off the hook with this Peter O'Toole photo. I would cherish that photo also.
Read on:
"No posing for photos! Never ask a movie star to pose with you for a picture. No movie star ever wants to do this. They may smile, but they're gritting their teeth. 'It is the Chinese Water Torture,' Clint Eastwood told me. 'And 99 times out of a hundred, the stranger they hand their camera to looks through the lens, pushes the button, and says 'It isn't working!' and then the fan has to walk over to the guy and demonstrate the camera and say, 'now try it'. And then it isn't working again. Looking at someone looking puzzled at a camera, that's the story of my life.'
"Remember, you are a professional. You are not a friend. You diminish yourself by asking for a snapshot. I so firmly believe this, I have a sad lack of movie star photos co-starring me. For example, the University of Chicago Press asked me if I had photos of myself with Martin Scorsese to help promote my new book Scorsese by Ebert. [Note: Plugging your own book is ethical.] I have been in Scorsese's company in Cannes, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Toronto and Columbus, Ohio. But I had only one photo of us together, from the time when he was a guest co-host on 'Siskel & Ebert.' That sort of situation is okay. By posing, I was just being nice to the guy. I couldn't use the photo. We were both wearing TV makeup and looked like an exhibit at Madame Tussaud's. I once visited a set of an Ingmar Bergman film, and Bergman and Liv Ullmann signed a photo to me when they heard it was my birthday, but I didn't ask them to pose with me. Damn it.
"On the other hand, treasure real photos of you really with a movie star. Photos taken at a real event by a real other person unknown to you who didn't ask anyone if he could take it. My favorite such photo shows Jason Patric and me assisting Peter O'Toole as he makes his way from a reception at the Savannah Film Festival. I have appended this to the left as a sample of a permissible star photo. Such a photo can be distinguished from the other kind because they represent abstinence applied to star-f***ing." Read his entire, terrific piece here. And if you're a critic just starting -- print it out and tack it next to your computer. Now.
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