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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter. Described by Forbes magazine as the "most powerful pundit in America", Ebert was the first film critic to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as a Pulitzer Prize.
Ebert's began his criticizing career in 1967 as a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and later gained national recognition co-hosting a number of shows with Gene Siskel in which they coined the 'thumbs up- thumbs down' style of reviewing.
Following Siskel's 1999 death Ebert continued to host "And The Movies" with Richard Roeper until 2006 when he stopped appearing due to developing Thyroid cancer. Complications from the cancer ended up taking much of his tongue and jaw, forcing Ebert to undergo massive reconstruction surgery and speak with the help of a computer program (which was configured with his own voice due to the volume of recorded spoken language from Ebert's TV show).
He continued to write reviews for his website later in life. On April 3rd, 2013 announced his cancer had returned and he would be taking a "leave of presence", lowering the amount he would be writing and only reviewing films he wanted to review.
Ebert succumbed to his cancer the next day, April 4th, 2013.
The balcony is closed.
As actor
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
John Candy: I Like Me
Remembering Gene Wilder
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Kubrick by Kubrick
Howard
Burden
Life Itself
Don't You Forget About Me
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Cannes: All Access
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Dead Teenager Movie
The Outsider
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Abby Singer
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
