Purple Prose

Film critic Roger Ebert was among the Chicago-area celebrities who recalled his “first time” for Time Out Chicago. “She and I stripped, covered ourselves with talcum powder, and went bareback riding on a water-smooth silver stallion under the smiling Norwegian moon,” Ebert recalled. “We found bliss beside an ancient fjord where the Vikings sailed their dragon ships. Oh, what a night it was!”
The man evidently is a hopeless romantic — and a frustrated romance novelist.
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