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To: Solon who wrote (34925)	4/6/2013 2:48:29 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Roger Ebert, the great American film critic said on his facebook just a while ago he was was taking a "leave of presence" and now he's gone. Ah, this is such very sad news for loved reading his reviews thru the years, the world of cinema lost a great one & will be sadly missed. His last review was "To the Wonder" from a director he adored, starring actors he liked, and with a mystical fitting title to end his mighty career with It was a great pleasure to have shared the ride with Roger, two thumbs up , always enjoyed the show. Remembering Roger Ebert (1942-2013) rogerebert.suntimes.com

To: Solon who wrote (34925)	4/6/2013 3:09:37 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago. He had been in poor health over the past decade, battling cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland. He lost part of his lower jaw in 2006, and with it the ability to speak or eat, a calamity that would have driven other men from the public eye. But Ebert refused to hide, instead forging what became a new chapter in his career, an extraordinary chronicle of his devastating illness that won him a new generation of admirers. “No point in denying it,” he wrote, analyzing his medical struggles with characteristic courage, candor and wit, a view that was never tinged with bitterness or self-pity. To die with dignity & bravery & even wit/humor without the maudlin tinge of fairy stories of self pity and dreary affectations.