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Roger Ebert dead at 70; R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen
UnbrokenEva
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Roger Ebert loved movies.
Except for those he hated.
For a film with a daring director, a talented cast, a captivating plot or, ideally, all three, there could be no better advocate than Roger Ebert, who passionately celebrated and promoted excellence in film while deflating the awful, the derivative, or the merely mediocre with an observant eye, a sharp wit and a depth of knowledge that delighted his millions of readers and viewers.
“No good film is too long,” he once wrote, a sentiment he felt strongly enough about to have engraved on pens. “No bad movie is short enough.”
Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago. He had been in poor health over the past decade, battling cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland.
He lost part of his lower jaw in 2006, and with it the ability to speak or eat, a calamity that would have driven other men from the public eye. But Ebert refused to hide, instead forging what became a new chapter in his career, an extraordinary chronicle of his devastating illness that won him a new generation of admirers. “No point in denying it,” he wrote, analyzing his medical struggles with characteristic courage, candor and wit, a view that was never tinged with bitterness or self-pity.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html
this after Iain Banks was found to have terminal cancer this week
fuck cancer
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Steam
The link is already broken.
Edit: Ok some sites are saying leave of absence, some dead. C'mon internet, those things are not close, which is it?
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I'd love for that to be true, but it's down because Sun Times' whole site is being swamped, and they've made multiple tweets about it.
the suntimes page isn't even loading for me
traffic, I'd guess
it could be both, i read about the leave of absence stuff this morning
would be strange for it to happen so suddenly after though
hope not i love ebert
The leave of absence was yesterday, this is today.
his list of great movies is fucking excellent as a jumping off point for exploring different genres and eras of movies and his reviews with them are great. Were always passionate and well written.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/04/a_leave_of_presense.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html
Just fuck
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You mistyped. The leave of presence was an update he had on his health, which he blogged about yesterday.
Steam
Roger Ebert was a man of incredible integrity who I deeply respected despite often disagreeing with him. He will certainly be missed.
but then I saw all the flames and thought, "maybe I should not post this"
so dang sassy
he was great.
He was a friend of everyone else who loved movies
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Not cool. A man can be wrong about one thing and be right in many, many others.
absolutely ditto
aw dangit man
geez
Feel the room, dick
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he took a leave of absence two days ago and now he is dead
so here's to you, mister ebert
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