A mere day after announcing that he would be slowing things down at work due to his cancer returning, famed movie critic Roger Ebert has died. The Chicago Sun-Times announced on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4, 2013, that Ebert has lost his battle with cancer and passed away at the age of 70.
“No good film is too long,” he once wrote, a sentiment he felt strongly enough about to have engraved on pens. “No bad movie is short enough.”
Ebert has been in poor health for over a decade, and he has battled cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland. He recently learned that his "painful fracture" was actually a come back of his cancer.
Roger Ebert reviewed movies for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for 46 years and did it on television for 31 years. He was, by far, one of the most well-known and respected critics the world over and loved by many.
In 2006, Ebert lost part of his lower jaw as well as the ability to speak or eat, due to cancer. Ebert did not stay hidden though and moved on to still do his work since he has always loved what he's done best...review movies.
In 1975, Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize and that was the same year he debuted "Coming Soon to a Theater Near You with Gene Siskel. In 1978, the pair kept being given the "thumbs up" for their show and renamed it "Sneak Previews."
“Tall and thin, short and fat. Laurel and Hardy,” Ebert once wrote. “We were parodied on ‘SNL’ and by Bob Hope and Danny Thomas and, the ultimate honor, in the pages of Mad magazine.”
Reading "Roger Ebert dies" may be one of the hardest things for so many people to see today. At least they know he went out strong and always doing what he loved.
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