Longtime admirer Will Leitch comes clean about insulting his hero
(NEWSER) - As a University of Illinois undergrad, Will Leitch lived the dream: He befriended his hero, Roger Ebert. "I wanted to be him, desperately," Leitch writes. "He was the reason I did anything." They fell out of touch, and the protégé later found himself in New York in the early days of online journalism, riding high and writing a story headlined "I Am Sick Of Roger Ebert's Fat F---ing Face." More»
