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Sad, but expected. His statement about taking a "leave of presence" was a pretty clear giveaway. My prayers for his soul, lib that he was.
1 posted on 04/04/2013 3:01:13 PM PDT by libstripper
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He was the last of his type. No media critic of any kind will ever have that kind of influence.


2 posted on 04/04/2013 3:07:11 PM PDT by Borges
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Did he die again?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3004230/posts

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4 posted on 04/04/2013 3:14:07 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Without Life nothing else matters.)
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He outlived Siskel by 14 years, despite by born 4 years earlier. He had a good run...


6 posted on 04/04/2013 3:16:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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I must disagree, this guy would give away plot twists and once gave away a movie ending and that’s when I stopped watching.


8 posted on 04/04/2013 3:20:02 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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There was a time when I would check what thought about a film and act accordingly (that is, do the opposite, which usually worked out). Ebert was also indirectly responsible for me getting two columns published in the New York Daily News. Back in the late 80s/early 90s, the News had a Counterpunch (talk back to the critics) column in the Sunday paper. Two of the columns I had published were rebuttals to his columns. (The News carried him for a time.)

I preferred Ebert's TV show. I enjoyed the clips back in the days when that was the only place you could find them.

9 posted on 04/04/2013 3:24:20 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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Condolences to family and friends of Roger Ebert


12 posted on 04/04/2013 3:30:46 PM PDT by PGalt
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The book was released 2011. Maybe he found this out really late...and, unlike some critics, at least didn’t automatically dump on a film to make himself feel better.

The Chicago Sun-Times published a tribute that ended with a fitting quote from his memoir “Life Itself: A Memoir”: “’Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”


13 posted on 04/04/2013 3:32:27 PM PDT by erlayman
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Siskel was better and Ebert was one of the more obnoxious and uninformed celebrity liberals.


16 posted on 04/04/2013 3:45:49 PM PDT by PAR
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Even though he has died, years from now you will be able to check active voter roles in Chicago and there he will be, Roger Ebert, Democrat.


18 posted on 04/04/2013 3:53:14 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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I guess ole Roger isn’t mocking all those Catholic altar boys (as he used to be, himself) now.

May God have mercy on his soul. Anyway.


20 posted on 04/04/2013 4:06:00 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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RIP

I cannot judge his soul, I could not stand the man.


24 posted on 04/04/2013 4:37:36 PM PDT by Wuli
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The balcony is closed.


30 posted on 04/04/2013 7:32:30 PM PDT by Oratam
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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.


37 posted on 04/08/2013 4:43:58 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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