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04-04-2013, 03:29 PM
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Roger Ebert, 70
http://news.yahoo.com/sun-times-fame...194432507.html
Fascinating guy with a great intellect and wide interests. Will miss his film critique, other writing and zeal for life. RIP.
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04-04-2013, 06:00 PM
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Very sad news. Roger Ebert had such a wonderful passion for film. He had an amazing ability to express that passion in his writing, and verbally during his work on television reviewing films. I was on Siskelandebert.org just last eveing Roger and the late Gene Siskel ranking their choices for the Best Films of 1992. Whether you agree with either critic's opinion about a particular picture, one thing that always came across was the love and enjoyment each felt about the movies. It was a pleasure to watch them both. Roger in recent years was quite opinionated on a variety of topics on twitter, and on his website. He was certainly not shy about expressing his political opinions either, anyone who follows him on twitter certainly knows this to be true. I will miss his writing, but his words and his review work on video will live on. Condolences to his wife Chazz, RIP hopefully Gene and Roger are at a screening together once again.
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04-04-2013, 06:14 PM
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Always looked forward to their reviews, not just what they said but how they said it...They could kill a movie or send it to the top...on ABC news tonite they did a piece on him..showed him talking recently with his computer voice and his last tweet just before he died...RIP Roger and Gene...
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04-04-2013, 08:10 PM
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 Hope they're up there going over the last 20 yrs of film, bustin balls all the way!!!
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04-05-2013, 08:24 AM
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 His review of Pearl Harbor was one for the ages. Quote:
His review of Secretariat was not, but his response to the review of it on Salon was great. Wonderful writer. Here's a nice piece from one of the Deadspin writers- a few years old, still really moving: http://deadspin.com/5482198/my-roger-ebert-story
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04-05-2013, 12:29 PM
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Dead on about Pearl Harbor, couldn't wait for it to be over..Affleck at his worse (we called him Afflicted  )As Ebert says, Alec Baldwin and Cuba Gooding roles were the best.. Here's a story about 10 films he hated..The Village and Armageddon are the only ones i remember watching.. http://now.msn.com/roger-ebert-quotes-10-films-he-hated
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04-05-2013, 12:38 PM
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"Relax, alright? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. It's more democratic."-- Crash Davis
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04-05-2013, 12:51 PM
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The Village was touted at the time, I still don't know what the heck it was all about..  Here's Roger and Gene in their new theater.. 
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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