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Title: Roger Ebert
Post by: deathfun on April 04, 2013, 05:56:06 pm

It would appear he is no longer with us
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/04/04/legendary-film-critic-roger-ebert-has-died-aged-70/

Title: Re: Roger Ebert
Post by: Mobius on April 04, 2013, 06:59:00 pm

R.I.P.

Title: Re: Roger Ebert
Post by: NGTM-1R on April 04, 2013, 08:47:50 pm

While always witty, his reviews were drifting a lot the last few years. Still, the man was in many ways the prototype for the reviewers of today in his wit.

Title: Re: Roger Ebert
Post by: Mongoose on April 04, 2013, 09:28:02 pm

The news was a pretty big shock, since he just announced yesterday that he was scaling back his work to focus on treatment for the cancer recurrence; it wasn't the sort of thing you'd expect to hear from someone who winds up passing the very next day.  I never put much stock in critics' viewpoints for much of my life, but I always enjoyed reading his reviews, and I admired how much he interacted with his fans.  And hell, he was cool enough to get parodied on Animaniacs. :(

Title: Re: Roger Ebert
Post by: wistler on April 05, 2013, 04:43:23 am

Along with Mark Kermode, Roger Ebert was one of the few movie critics whose opinion I cared about. R.I.P :(

Title: Re: Roger Ebert
Post by: Luis Dias on April 05, 2013, 11:58:55 am

JFC, so just as we learned Bank's ****ty cancer, this one remembers to just die on us?