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Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| April 4, 2013
| Neil Steinberg
Posted on 04/04/2013 12:45:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
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 nations 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: cancer; cinema; ebert; film; hollywood; hollywoodliberal; movies; obituary; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rogerebert; siskelandebert
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:46:15 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
He can have the aisle seat in Heaven. R.I.P.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:46:34 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
(SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
To: EveningStar
That’s too bad. No one deserves cancer.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:46:57 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/)
To: DollyCali; Perdogg; EveningStar; Borges; Mr. K; Blondie; altura; mylife; Mama_Bear; Jack Deth; ...
I know he was a big lib, but RIP. Cancer is horrible.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:47:59 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
To: EveningStar
One thumb up for the amusing, witty film reviews, at least until late in his life ...
and one thumb down for his late-in-life spew of leftist hatred.
RIP.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:49:41 PM PDT
by
pogo101
To: SMGFan
I highly doubt he’ll be in Heaven based on his personal choices...
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:50:12 PM PDT
by
newfreep
(Breitbart sent me...)
To: pogo101
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:50:18 PM PDT
by
MarineMom613
(RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
To: EveningStar
We have a long standing tradition. On obituary threads, unless the person was an absolute MONSTER (Like Ted Kennedy) we either say something nice, or if we cannot do that, we remain silent.
In light of that tradition,
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:52:49 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
To: EveningStar
After his sheer defamatory vileness towards Palin and the tea party movement, all I wish to say is “good riddance.”
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:53:16 PM PDT
by
greene66
To: EveningStar; All
Having just won the battle with the “relatively easy to treat” testicular cancer (took 3 chemo rounds and two months....okay aside from my hearing being messed with some), cancer is awful, and the treatment even worse.
I am lucky...we caught it early and it’s also one of the most curable even fairly late.
But, even with this cancer, there are deaths...
I don’t wish cancer on my worst enemy, and I am so sad that Ebert had to go through this nightmare multiple times in such an awful way with later stage cancer and much more difficult to treat.
It’s odd he died so quickly after the announcement, but he likely waited until it was close to the end before letting people know.
RIP Ebert....know we didn’t agree on politics, but wow, you fought through it all with such inspiration. RIP. You are free from the pain, suffering and chemo, surgery etc. now.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:53:42 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
To: EveningStar
Only slightly off topic...These type of headlines are a pet peeve of mine. The word "dies" is a verb. A word that describes an action. Someone who is dead is not capable of action. The word "dead" is descriptive, an adjective.
"So and So, dead at 70" is the proper term.
Back on topic.
Prayers to Ebert's family. I know it was a long, tough struggle. But he is in a better place now. Probably with a very surprised look on his face.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:54:17 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
To: EveningStar
RIP
That being said...If he liked a movie, I never went to see it. If he hated it, I was there.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:57:40 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: EveningStar
He’s at peace now. I won’t miss him, but he did do a lot to get me interested in pictures when I was younger, so that’s something.
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posted on
04/04/2013 12:58:53 PM PDT
by
x
To: EveningStar
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"So and So, dead at 70" is the proper term.
Past tense = yesterday's news.
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posted on
04/04/2013 1:00:50 PM PDT
by
x
To: hattend
So you hated Schindler’s List, Citizen Kane and loved Tommy Boy and Pauly Shore films?
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posted on
04/04/2013 1:01:59 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: EveningStar
I will NOT have ANYTHING good to say about him for Him, His Industry and the Industry that he reported on accelerated the ROT of our once-GREAT Country. He will stand before the Great White Throne to give an account of his life and receive JUDGEMENT!
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posted on
04/04/2013 1:04:04 PM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: Lazamataz
Anyone who sides with the Demonic-rat Party of evil today is a MONSTER.
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posted on
04/04/2013 1:04:05 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
How is he in a better place now?
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posted on
04/04/2013 1:05:29 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
(....)
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