Posted on 04/04/2013 3:01:13 PM PDT by libstripper
CHICAGO (AP) — Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who also became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism, and on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation's most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.
Ebert, who had been a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, died early Thursday afternoon at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, his office said. He had announced on his blog Wednesday that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence of cancer.
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That just goes to show you, Ebert is a soulless liberal. He died but an evil spirt, who directed him, lived on. But today, it needs to move on to possess a different Hollywierdo as the vessel it occupied known as Ebert, has truly died? /s/
You needed only to search for “Ebert.”
You know you’re right? I really don’t think Perez Hilton will measure up! :)
RIP
I cannot judge his soul, I could not stand the man.
That's debatable. Both he and Siskel loved those pathetically boring, Euro-"art" flicks. I don't know if they ever quite understood that first a movie has to be entertaining rather than simply arty. I specifically remember them raving about this French pseudo-arty bore-fest "Diva." After I saw that, under their recommendation, I never took them seriously again.
Being that he was reviewing 150 films a year and seeing 300. You are of course wrong. He reviewed all films from highbrow to lowbrow. You may dislike the mans politics but lets not lie about him.
Mr. Bert was a great writer who never talked down to his audience. He liked many types of movies never sitting on the elite aisle in Hollywood.
I am a fan of his, true, but tell the whole story.
I am telling the story pal...I didn’t agree with many of his picks and not just that movie. If you liked him...fine..I don’t care. But I seemed to like Siskel’s picks a lot more than Ebert’s.
Definitely not your Pal. It is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, just want to make sure you are not inventing facts to support your conclusion.
He was also the first of his type: the nationally influential movie critic. A lot reviewers want to be the journalistic heir to Roger Ebert. None of theme are anywhere in his league. Roger knew a lot, saw a lot, and could write well.
So I’m sorry to see him go, but not particularly sad. I remember his outrage back in 2008 over seeing pictures of Obama dressed as a Nazi and swore no liberal had possibly stooped so low over Bush. Posters to his blog made sure he got an education on how low liberals could go before one day had passed.
The balcony is closed.
He was never averse to admitting he was wrong. He was a big Mark Steyn fan.
yeah, right...whatever.
I never knew that. When/where did he say it?
Thanks for the tip! I missed that one...
Poor bastard couldn’t eat solid food for the last several years of this life.
He was a a huge lib but I wouldn’t have wished that on him.
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