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An urgent appeal to Answer Man users:
The "answer man" e-mail link is threatened because I am receiving hundreds of e-mails a day, most of them clearly ignoring the "rules" printed below. There is no staff to handle them. I cannot personally deal with them all.
As a result, no message violating these rules will be acknowledged, and the originating e-mail address may potentially be BLOCKED against any future messages.
I am sorry to have to do this, but I cannot think of an alternative that will continue to keep this e-mail link usable on a human scale.
- Despite its perhaps misleading title, the "Answer Man" is not a
service to answer all movie questions. I'm looking for possible questions
of GENERAL INTEREST for the Answer Man column. Read the column to get a
notion of typical questions.
- I cannot get involved in discussions of plot points of films no longer
in current release.
- I cannot supply any data about any movie. This includes names of actors,
video availability, etc. Go to www.imdb.com for that.
- I cannot read screenplays or view your video.
- I cannot take the time to explain why I did not see or write a review of
a given movie. I get dozens of such requests.
- Sorry, but no autograph or photo requests, please. Autograph sites post
my address, and I get flooded.
- I do not do homework. Yes, I can sense the very aura of a class
assignment.
- I do not supply the answers to trivia questions.
- I do not supply any lists. Not desert island movies, not favorite horror
films--no lists at all.
- I cannot read or critique your movie reviews. Post them to a newsgroup and benefit from general feedback
Best,
Movie Answer Man
The Answer Man column appears in the Chicago Sun-Times and is posted online every other Sunday. It alternates with Ebert's biweekly "Great Movies" articles. The most recent 18 months of questions are included in the new book "Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005" (Andrews-McMeel). An earlier book, "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," was published by Andrews-McMeel in 1997.
