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Tea Partiers Get Ugly With Ebert

'Patriotism' devolves into cancer jibes

(Newser) - Roger Ebert has become the target of acid-tongued Tea Partiers since the movie critic criticized a group of California high schoolers who wore American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Ebert tweeted that the kids "should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and...

Attack Ad Doesn't Show Democrat Masturbating: GOP

He's bare-chested. So what?

(Newser) - The web has no shortage of salacious videos—and a new one, compliments of the GOP, appears to depict a Democratic nominee for the Senate masturbating. Roger Ebert—who knows a thing or two about film—declared the video "vile!" but the National Republican Senatorial Committee insists its...

Chaz Ebert: 'It Wasn't Roger's Time to Go'
 Chaz Ebert: 'It Wasn't 
 Roger's Time to Go' 
INTERVIEW
Apr 20, 2010 11:17 AM CDT

Chaz Ebert: 'It Wasn't Roger's Time to Go'

His wife recounts how they stayed positive through illness

(Newser) - Chaz Ebert gives an exclusive interview to PopEater , focused—not at all surprisingly—on the positivity and hope surrounding husband Roger Ebert’s battle with cancer. Highlights:
  • On Roger's prognosis: “I just had a very deeply spiritual—almost psychic feeling—it was not his time to go; that he
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How Roger Ebert Got His Voice Back

Film critic debuts new program on Oprah Winfrey Show

(Newser) - After four years, Roger Ebert is finally getting his voice back—and he debuted it yesterday during his appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show in a touching segment. The program that simulates his voice was created by a Scottish company that used Ebert’s DVD commentaries to re-create his speech,...

Roger Ebert to Oprah: 'My Life Is Happy'

Film critic talks about life after cancer treatments

(Newser) - Roger Ebert is fine with the way his face looks after cancer surgeries, and he tells Oprah he's not going through another one for purely cosmetic reasons. "This is the way I look, and my life is happy and productive so why have any more surgery," he said...

Dear Mr. Ebert, Sorry I Was Such a Tool

Longtime admirer Will Leitch comes clean about insulting his hero

(Newser) - As a University of Illinois undergrad, Will Leitch lived the dream: He befriended his hero, Roger Ebert. "I wanted to be him, desperately," Leitch writes. "He was the reason I did anything." They fell out of touch, and the protégé later found himself in New...

Oprah Books Ebert
 Oprah Books Ebert 
updated
Feb 28, 2010 10:36 PM CST

Oprah Books Ebert

Film critic will use computer for interview on Tuesday's show

(Newser) - Roger Ebert can no longer speak , but he's been booked on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The legendary film critic, who lost his lower jaw during cancer treatment, communicates with computer assistance. He's been in the news thanks to an Esquire profile and his good-natured reaction , and the queen of all...

Smiles Rare in Happy Tears
 Smiles Rare in Happy Tears 
Movie Review
Feb 19, 2010 12:38 PM CST

Smiles Rare in Happy Tears

Would-be dramedy just a weird mishmash

(Newser) - Happy Tears, a quirky family dramedy starring Demi Moore, Rip Torn, and Parker Posey, hasn’t made many critics happy. Here’s what they’re saying.
  • Director Mitchell Lichtenstein says the film’s not autobiographical, even though he, like one character, is the son of a famous painter (Roy Lichtenstein).
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Roger Ebert: I'm Not Dying

And he's fine with the jarring photo in 'Esquire'

(Newser) - Like others who read the profile of Roger Ebert in Esquire, Ebert himself got a "jolt" when he saw the full-page photo of face, now altered by cancer surgeries. But he has no regrets about it. "Not a lovely sight," he writes in the Chicago Sun-Times . "...

Roger Ebert Regains His Voice Online
 Roger Ebert 
 Regains His 
 Voice Online 
PROFILE
Feb 16, 2010 12:18 PM CST

Roger Ebert Regains His Voice Online

Massive online journal is 'saving' ailing film critic as he faces death

(Newser) - Roger Ebert once “lived his life through microphones,” writes Chris Jones. But since his voice and the ability to eat or drink were taken from him in a 2006 surgery for thyroid cancer, he has returned to his best gift—the written word. “His new life is...

Roger Ebert Wants to 'Horsewhip' Limbaugh

Rush's Haiti rant gets under critic's skin

(Newser) - Roger Ebert gives Rush Limbaugh a pretty enthusiastic thumbs down over his comments on Haiti yesterday. The Chicago Sun-Times critic wrote an open letter to Limbaugh today, opining that he “should be horsewhipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation.” Ebert was...

Don't Land On Planet 51
 Don't Land On Planet 51 
Movie Review
Nov 20, 2009 12:48 PM CST

Don't Land On Planet 51

Laugh-free sci-fi satire mediocre at best

(Newser) - It has a cool concept—a human is greeted with paranoia on an alien planet straight out of the '50s—but critics say Planet 51 never reaches orbit. Some reviews:
  • It’s a “bland, humor-free narrative,” with lame references to other movies instead of jokes, writes Glenn Whipp
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Times, Tribune Critics Next-Gen Siskel & Ebert

Dueling critics Scott, Phillips mark return to old At the Movies format

(Newser) - At the Movies, the longtime home of Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, is getting a new pair of dueling cineastes. AO Scott of the New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune will take over the syndicated program, which returns to the air next month. The...

Ebert on Siskel: 'He Is in My Mind Almost Every Day'
Ebert on Siskel: 'He Is in My Mind Almost Every Day'
IN MEMORIAM
Feb 19, 2009 8:21 PM CST

Ebert on Siskel: 'He Is in My Mind Almost Every Day'

(Newser) - Ten years after the death of his sparring partner, Roger Ebert pays tribute to Gene Siskel in the Chicago Sun-Times. "He is in my mind almost every day," writes Ebert. Yes, they had a sometimes volatile relationship, but the friendship endured. “No one else could possibly understand...

E!'s Lyons Draws Scorn of Fellow Film Critics

Lyons is a "train wreck," but reviewers have no audience

(Newser) - In his four months as critic on E!'s At The Movies, Ben Lyons—he who called Will Smith's I Am Legend one of the greatest films in history with a straight face—has galled the critics' community and presided over a plunge in viewership of the show once hosted...

Chicago Mourns Studs Terkel
 Chicago Mourns Studs Terkel 
Nov 1, 2008 7:18 AM CDT

Chicago Mourns Studs Terkel

Author, oral historian, and firebrand leftist will be sorely missed

(Newser) - Chicago has lost its finest citizen with the death of Studs Terkel, Roger Ebert writes in his Chicago Sun-Times blog. The author "represented the joyous, scrappy, liberal, generous, wise-cracking heart of this city," Ebert writes, and chronicled the lives of countless Chicagoans. “He was the most widely...

Ebert, Roeper Close Curtain on At the Movies

Critics give Disney 2 thumbs down for show's new direction

(Newser) - Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper are calling it a day with At the Movies, reports the Chicago Tribune. Insiders say Disney plans to revamp the 33-year-old show and give it more of a Hollywood focus. Ebert, who holds the trademark for the show's signature thumbs up/thumbs down format, has vowed...

Film Critics Fading in Cyber-Culture

Fans surf web for trailers, ignore esteemed critics

(Newser) - Gone are the days when film critics swayed the culture and sparked serious debate, Anne Thompson laments in Variety. None of her college film students can name a critic besides Roger Ebert, though all are intense cinematic aficionados. Instead, most turn to review roundup sites, or “get their movie...

Ebert Ready to Review Again
 Ebert Ready to Review Again 
Apr 1, 2008 9:07 PM CDT

Ebert Ready to Review Again

Critic gives thumbs up to imminent return

(Newser) - Roger Ebert—beset by a series of serious health ailments in recent years—will soon resume reviewing films, he wrote in a letter to Chicago Sun-Times readers. The critic was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002; since then he’s undergone several surgeries, including a tracheotomy that cost him his...

Bucket List Is Leaky Schlock
Bucket List Is Leaky Schlock
NEW RELEASE
Jan 11, 2008 1:40 PM CST

Bucket List Is Leaky Schlock

Into-the-sunset tearjerker suggests that facing cancer can be fun

(Newser) - The Bucket List, Rob Reiner’s new cancer comedy, “never ascends from the bowels of tearjerk formula and audience pandering," writes Newsday’s Jan Stuart. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminally ill buddies trying to do it all before they die. They skydive, race...

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