Bob Greene : Why spend long hours watching and giving other people prizes ? Greene : Yet millions of people will watch the Academy Awards show on Sunday night . He says instead , pick three movies that have meant the most to you for a triple prize . Roger Ebert , before he became a television presence and was still a young newspaper movie critic , used to urge his colleagues at the paper to accompany him to a seen-better-days theater in Chicago called the Clark . Greene : They will remind you of why you started to watch movies in the first place .
Bob Greene : Why spend long hours watching and giving other people prizes ? Greene : Yet millions of people will watch the Academy Awards show on Sunday night . He says instead , pick three movies that have meant the most to you for a triple prize . Greene : They will remind you of why you started to watch movies in the first place .