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R.I.P. Ebert...29
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Siskel in 1999 and now Ebert 2013, cancer...two thumbs down!
Personally I found Ebert to be a bit of an egotist in his
reviews...Siskel at least attempted to be objective or at least cry out
for the artistic in films back when I used to watch "Siskel and Ebert at
the movies". Ebert however was a critic who had written a screenplay
and knew what the process was like to get a movie made and a screenplay
produced...
I cannot say I have seen his film, or that I ever will, but I respect
that he wrote one and won a Pulitzer for his review efforts. He even has
a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Both Siskel and Ebert were ended by cancer. I wonder if they both smoked
or if it was simply a by-product of living/working in a time when
everybody did smoke. I can just imagine the smell and haze of the
newsrooms in the Chicago-Sun Times and Tribune back in the 60s and
70s...second hand smoke and asbestos ceilings had to make for a prime
incubator of all sorts of health toxins.
I cannot prove it today since I do not have the screen capture
anymore...but at one time my movie review on the Internet Movie Database
for Titanic was right below the one from Roger Ebert for about three
days before the sheer volume of movie blogger reviews for that movie
moved things around some.
Not that I would compare myself to him, because I am not, but it did
show me that the internet was a real thing and destined for many cool
moments in the future.
My take away from this story, and from what I have read about him was
that he knew a great many people, stuck to his opinions and lived life
how he wanted to. There is inspiration in that,
and for that I give him a 29.
JDB
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Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2013 @ 07:23:25 UTC by JDB
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