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Thanks to the miracle of Skype, movie critic Roger Ebert made it to the Harvard Club this week for a party celebrating his new memoir, “Life Itself.’’ Ebert was due to attend the event in person, but because of illness, he was stuck in Chicago and appeared only via video. (Ebert’s wife, Chaz, was there and helped moderate the Q&A.) Over 100 people attended the party on the 38th floor of a behemoth building in the Financial District - think “Vanilla Sky’’ - including Oscar-winning director Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker Ted Bogosian, best-selling author Joe Finder, TV reporter/writer Hank Phillippi Ryan, WGBH radio host Callie Crossley, WTKK cohost Margery Eagan, the Globe’s Ty Burr, and former WBZ-TV entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik (who was once in the running to replace the late Gene Siskel as Ebert’s sidekick), advice columnist Margo Howard and her husband, Dr. Ron Weintraub, former chief of surgery at Beth Israel and Cambridge hospitals, and “Miss Conduct’’ Robin Abrahams and her husband, Marc, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes.