Roger Ebert & Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert @ Spirit Awards
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 late in the morning while chugging coffee by Jackson
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Photo Credit: Bauer-GriffinAs of February 2010, Ebert has a full-time, live-in nurse attend to him when needed. Although doctors have asked him to allow them to make one more attempt to restore his voice, Ebert has refused, indicating that he is done with surgery, and will also probably decline significant intervention even if his cancer returns, as the last procedure he underwent did more harm than good. Wiki
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life's a bitch sometimes. he doesnt need his voice he still writes and he uses twitter! wish him all the best
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Good for them, she stood by him through all that stuff, can't make a joke about that
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Wow, thyroid cancer is a bitch. Sofia Vergara had it, luckily she didn't end up looking like Ebert.
Poor guy.
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am i the only one not seeing anything?
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no don't think it just you. guessing fallen tried put up a vid or something or something you can't pull off on the user end. and since he didn't include any other comments we get the post/we got ???
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momma always said, "if you got nothing positive to say, say nothing at all"...
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poor thing. :( that's really unfortunate. i hope he gets better. at least he seems to be taking it well, he seems happy.
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sadly, his chances of getting better or even living much longer are about zero....hope the end comes gently to him
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I mentioned that I can no longer eat or drink...
ebert give some details...
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poor bastard.
life can be dicks.
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Ohhh shit, he looks BAD :(. Only negative i can shine that's hater alert worthy was that he never liked any of the movies i liked.
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Roger Ebert is the king and will always be the king.
His wife is awesome for sticking by his side.
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He's the puppet and she's the ventriloquist lol.
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holy horror-film batman...
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Poor dude..I can only imagine what he's gone thru..
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Two thumbs way down!
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I actually saw his segment on Oprah and what I found amazing was that he still has a sense of humor about everything and he's actually happy. I guess going through changes like that really put things in perspective for you.
He's a good man and his wife is an amazing woman.
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All respect to this guy.
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since Ebert is mad fat, hes the one on the RIGHT correct?
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He likes to send nasty tweets since he can't talk anymore. He's gone beyond being a theater critic, now he's a critic of just about everything not leftwing on his blog.
I think he looks like Darth Vader when Luke pulled his helmet off.
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nice photo shop work on the face,
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I've lost a couple of friends to cancer....my prayers go with the man...life's not always fare
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I love Ebert and always have.
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I never cared much for Roger Ebert. His ratings system is just unreliable. For example, he gave Die Hard 2 stars but gave Speed 2, a vastly inferior film, 3 stars. Note that he also gave the Godfather, Part II 3 stars, even though the quality of both films is nowhere near the same. Moreover, he takes inconsistent moral positions in his film reviews. While he complains about vigilante justice in Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, for instance, he remains silent about the glorification of totalitarianism in Yimou Zhang's Hero. At times, it seems as though Al Gore's manbearpig (South Park S10E06) could critique a film better than Ebert can.
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While I agree and I don't care for Ebert as a critic, I can still say that I feel really sorry for him. And it's rare I feel sorry for anyone, but this is some awful shit that's happened to him.
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Manbearpig, may be near you!! For your own protection check his location;
http://www.manbearpig.net/
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Ebert's not about the rating system though.
It's about the review. It's about hearing him use his extensive knowledge of movies to process what works and doesn't work about this new film.
I don't even look at the rating. I just want to know what he thinks.
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Many people are too lazy to read/listen to a review and want to just glance at some rating mechanic to inform them.
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Ebert is a film critic so obviously it's his job to be consistent, which he hasn't been in more than a few cases. If he doesn't want to have a stars-based rating system, then he shouldn't use one. His reviews can be just as inconsistent and nonsensical.
For example, look at Avatar. Ebert called it a "sensational" film that made him feel "sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977." However, when it began making an enormous amount of money, he became cranky and twittered: "The year's best picture? Give me a fucking break." Clearly, he was being a little bitch out of jealousy.
I greatly enjoyed watching Avatar, just as much as the next guy did, but I didn't think the story was very original. Other people may disagree. Fine. However, lashing out like Ebert did just because a movie destroyed box office records is just pathetic.
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He has to have a star based system. Every mainstream critic has something like that. The stars are pretty irrelevant though.
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What are you talking about? Not every mainstream critic has a stars-based rating system. Just take a look at A.O. Scott of the New York Times, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Armond White of New York Press, and Todd McCarthy of Variety to name a few. Ebert is overrated. Period.
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He's the most famous of all them BECAUSE he has a star system though. None of those guys are even close to being in his league in terms of fame.
He articulates his thoughts about the film, and then gives the star rating as a way to appease the people who aint gonna read all that.
And A.O. Scott is doing Ebert's job on TV now and giving simplified ratings too. They all have to do it if they wanna get on TV. Nobody says, "OK, what did you think about this movie?" and let the guys give 5 minute dissertations without some payoff, whether it's a star system of "thumbs up" or "see it or skip it" type system.
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He still looks better than that dude he's standing next to.
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shit, they should be in that classic cult, Freaks...
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