Wait what? I thought I had just read this morning the cancer had returned. I guess he really pushed on til the very end.
Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
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Re: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
#12.
I'll just leave one of my favorite quotes from Ebert about a movie that is actually one of my all time favorite comedy.
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." [1]
- Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered"; April 20, 2001
[1] http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
Re: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
#13Fitzgerald said "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Ebert seemed to have a knack for thinking all the thoughts simultaneously, and then getting their product onto a page:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/win_ben_steins_mind....
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/03/how_i_am_a_roman_cat...
One of the truly great Internet writers. My favorite:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/the_pot_and_how_to_u...
(It's not what you think!)
The blog is getting crushed right now but most of this content is in Google's cache.
Re: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
#14. I'll just leave one of my favorite quotes from Ebert about a movie that is actually one of my all time favorite comedy. "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." [1] - Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered"; April 20, 2001 [1] http…
"It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and [Vincent Gallo] will still be the director of The Brown Bunny."
Re: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
#15Someone needs to find 100% cure against this deadly disease. So much money is spent on cancer research every year and what are the results..almost zero.
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#16Just two days ago, he announced he was taking a "leave of presence."
Typically, I write over 200 reviews a year for the Sun-Times that are
carried by Universal Press Syndicate in some 200 newspapers. Last year,
I wrote the most of my career, including 306 movie reviews, a blog post
or two a week, and assorted other articles. I must slow down now, which
is why I'm taking what I like to call "a leave of presence."
Re: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
#17. I'll just leave one of my favorite quotes from Ebert about a movie that is actually one of my all time favorite comedy. "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." [1] - Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered"; April 20, 2001 [1] http…
My favorite line of his is the one he ended his review of 1996's Mad Dog Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Dog_Time) with:
"Mad Dog Time should be cut up to provide free ukelele picks for the poor."
Re: Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer
#18. I'll just leave one of my favorite quotes from Ebert about a movie that is actually one of my all time favorite comedy. "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." [1] - Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered"; April 20, 2001 [1] http…
"It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and [Vincent Gallo] will still be the director of The Brown Bunny."
Which is stealing/paraphrasing Winston Churchill "yes I may be drunk. But my Dear in the morning I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly" or something close to that.
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#20R.I.P Mr.Ebert - I've spent many an idle hour reading his works, many of which, quite frankly, were more entertaining than the movies themselves and opened a whole world of cinema to me.