When did Truman Capote start reviewing movies?
Posted on 09/12/2008 5:46:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Critic goes Post-al on ill Roger Ebert
Thursday, September 11th 2008, 4:00 AM
The audience at the Toronto Film Festival press screening of "Slumdog Millionaire" didn't know they were also going to get live entertainment Saturday.
There'd been lots of Oscar buzz about Danny ("Trainspotting") Boyle's flick, about a poor Mumbai guy who wins a girl and becomes a national hero by going on a game show. So the screening room was packed.
Soon after the lights went down, a source tells us, "a man in the audience started yelling, 'Don't touch me!' People looked around and shrugged. Ten minutes later, the voice yells again, 'I said don't touch me!'"
Again, people shrugged off the disturbance. But a few minutes later, says our source, "the guy stands up in the darkness and thwacks the guy behind him with a big festival binder. He hit him so hard everybody could hear it. Everyone freaked out and turned around."
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When did Truman Capote start reviewing movies?
that looks like the guys who had his face melted in Indiana Jones final scene!
I do not wish any ill on Ebert but his pompous attack a couple days ago on Sarah Palin primarily because she had never been to Europe or met any A-List foreign leaders was absolutely reprehensible. I actually thought it was satire.
That said, God Speed Mr. Ebert
Ebert sounds like he was justified in his act. He said he isn’t looking for pity. He just needed to see the screen and was unable to speak so he tapped the guy on the shoulder. Seems like a non-issue now.
Why didn’t he just get up and move himself???
Why did he tap the guy THREE additional times after being told not to?
Typical Lib! Something wrong with them and they think they are entitled to make us all suffer!
Ebert is a prat.
Battle with thyroid cancer
Ebert (right) at the Conference on World Affairs in September 2002, shortly after his cancer diagnosisIn early 2002, Ebert was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. In February of that year, surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital were able to successfully remove the cancer with clean margins. He later underwent surgery in 2003 for cancer in his salivary gland and in December 2003, he underwent a four-week course of radiation treatment as a follow-up to the surgery on his salivary gland, which altered his voice slightly. As he battled the illness, Ebert continued to be a dedicated critic of film, not missing a single opening while undergoing treatment.
He underwent further surgery June 16, 2006, just two days before his 64th birthday, to remove cancer near his right jaw and a section of jaw bone.[42]
On July 1, Ebert was hospitalized in serious condition after his carotid artery burst near the surgery site and he "came within a breath of death".[43] He later learned that the burst was likely a side effect of his treatment, which involved neutron beam radiation. He was subsequently kept bed-ridden to prevent further damage to the scarred vessels in his neck while he slowly recovered from multiple surgeries and the rigorous treatment regimen. At one point, his status was so precarious that Ebert had a tracheostomy done on his neck to reduce the effort of breathing while he recovered.
Boy, has he lost weight. I wish him well.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_8_67/ai_106225217
Roger Ebert - The Progressive Interview - Interview
Progressive, The, August, 2003 by Matthew Rothschild
Q: Tell me, what was your reaction to Michael Moore’s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards?
Roger Ebert: I agree with what he said. I don’t think Bush was legitimately elected President. But I was very offended as a reporter when Michael came directly back to the pressroom where I was, along with 300 or 400 other reporters and lectured us, “Now do your job. Don’t report it was a divided house. Only five loud people were booing.” I was just talking with Sean Welsh at the Wisconsin Film Festival, who directed Spellbound. He was one of the directors Michael had invited up on stage, and I asked him very carefully about that, and he said, “No, it sounded about 50-50.”
(snip)
Oh, I would agree, but the comments about a person’s physical appearence due to a severe illness is simply uncalled for.
Typical liberal rant. "Do you know who I am?"
He intentionally tapped the guy again just to be an ass and then plays the victim card "poor me". He jumped the shark after Siskel died and has been a political blowhard ever since.
He’s said SAVE ME THE AISLE SEAT for 30 years. That is HIS seat, dammit!
He's been ravaged.
If that's true, he could just ask the organizer to make a semi-permanent sign. He could also ask the organizer (or the usher) to help him letting the other person know when the incident happened. Instead, like you, he assumed everybody would automatically know who he was, and automatically knew not to sit in front of him. If someone tapped me like he did, I wouldn't be intimidated either, unless the usher--with a valid argument-- tells me otherwise. Sitting on the theater is like gambling. Sometimes you sit behind a tall man, or a lady with hairdo like Marge Simpson.
Roger taking a wide stance
Frankly, I'm encouraged that he feels well enough to be a petty dick-head.
Seriously, that's encouraging. I enjoy reading his reviews and wish him well.
Sure, he's an 'effin lefty feeb...But you have to admire someone who co-wrote anything as delightfully camp as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with Russ Meyers.
That's gotta make John Waters jealous...
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