Most of Roger Ebert’s books are dedicated “To Robert Zonka: God love ya.” Searching Google for him, I didn’t find anything relevant (one reference to the band Space Surfers, a website to a band from Tufts, a discussion of the Bhutan language Zonka, etc) and I couldn’t find the name Zonka searching his online reviews.
So, does anyone know who he is? Good friend? Famous Chicago guy? Ex-producer for Siskel&Ebert? Ex-boss from the Sun-Times? Ex-teacher from Champagne-Urbana?
(albeit a little fortuitously in this case because there happened to be a “Robert” in the review. If you had typed “Bob Zonka Ebert” you would have gotten both reviews.)