R.I.P. Rogert Ebert

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Πέθανε στην ηλικία των 70 ο γνωστός κριτικός κινηματογράφου ύστερα από επιπλοκές του καρκίνου που είχε.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-dead_n_3016769.html

 

 

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

On April 2, Ebert revealed on his blog that his cancer had returned and that he would be reducing his reviewing duties at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ebert wrote that he would be taking a “leave of presence," as he underwent radiation treatment, but it appears the cancer was too far gone already.

“It means I am not going away,” Ebert explained. “My intent is to continue to write selected reviews but to leave the rest to a talented team of writers handpicked and greatly admired by me. What's more, I'll be able at last to do what I've always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review.”

The 70-year-old film critic was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, and cancerous growths were found on his salivary glands a year later, forcing him to undergo surgeries that left him without the ability to speak.

Ebert began working as the Sun-Times film critic exactly 46 years ago, and became a household name after winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and hosting several movie-review TV shows with Richard Roeper and the late Tribune film critic Gene Siskel.

Though Ebert was best-known for his film review program, his cancer and subsequent inability to speak didn't stop Ebert from doing what he loved -- writing columns, reviewing movies and connecting with readers. In recent years, he has built a huge audience on Facebook and Twitter, where he frequently comments on a wide variety of topics.

Cancer took Ebert's ability to talk, eat or drink, but he refused to be pitied after all he'd been through. In a lengthy 2010 profile, Esquire writer Chris Jones noted the following scene:

"There is no need to pity me, he writes on a scrap of paper one afternoon after someone parting looks at him a little sadly. Look how happy I am."

 

 

 

[KilliK]

RIP Roger Ebert

ο μονος σινε-κριτικος του οποιου την αποψη εκτιμουσα, ακομη και αν διαφωνουσα μαζι της.

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Αν και διαφωνώ με πολλές από τις κριτικές του και αυτό είναι λογικό (δεν γίνεται να συμφωνούμε σε όλα) ήταν από τους λίγους κριτικούς που έγραφαν αληθινά.