Not jumping out of his seat and clapping. He message is often unclear…when he’s merely sitting in his chair, watching. The beloved icon of this newspaper’s entertainment sections is, in fact, a complete nuisance to criticism….That’s because the Little Man gives you a visual clue to what you’re about to read.Īnd they complain about what Ebert loves: the middle man on the scale-the man with ambiguous feelings. They boo-hoo that the picture already tells the story! Many of the writers at the Chronicle hate The Little Man. On the occasion of the Little Man’s 50th birthday, Goodrich recalled it was just another assignment that he dashed off quickly, noting, “I’m surprised (it) continued.”…Goodrich, who died last year, once recalled that a woman (possibly a disgruntled actress) once hit him on the head with her umbrella and said, “I hate the Little Man!” The Little Man was the creation of Chronicle artist Warren Goodrich in the early 40s: The only rating system that makes any sense is the Little Man of the San Franciscio Chronicle, who is seen (1) jumping out of his seat and applauding wildly (2) sitting up happily and applauding (3) sitting attentively (4) asleep in his seat or (5) gone from his seat….The blessing of the Little Man system is that it offers a true middle position, like three on a five-star scale. Yesterday I read this little paragraph in Roger Ebert’s response to claims that he gives out too many stars:
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