Roger Ebert died :(

[girlfriday11]

Apr 4, 2013 14:38:53 GMT -5 girlfriday11 said:

From cancer.

www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

ETA: I got the link off Twitter, so it's probably jacked up.

[LLL]

[jerseygrl]

So sad

[moolarkey]

I had read last night that his cancer was back.

[vampsterdam]

ETA: the link is not showing up.

Sad.

I thought he would at least have another year or so.

[anlo]

How sad. I loved him

[jerseygrl]

CNN is reporting it

[MWOS]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[toepick]

The Chicago Tribune - his home paper - has a nice tribute.

[luckyval]

Aw, man. I loved Siskel and Ebert

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Oh no! I loved him!

[joshlyman]

[girlfriday11]

App, you're drunk.

[toepick]

This is the story I read him about him just yesterday:

todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/03/17583335-roger-eberts-cancer-recurs-critic-takes-leave-of-presence-from-writing-duties?lite

"What in the world is a leave of presence?" he wrote. "It means I am not going away." Ebert explained he will continue to write "selected" reviews, then leave the rest to select writers he admires.
"I must slow down now," he wrote.

But as he noted, he's not going away, simultaneously announcing several upcoming projects, including launching a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to bring back his TV show "At the Movies" and the creation of a "movie version of a video game or mobile app," making a wry nod to whether or not it is art -- Ebert has had a long-standing discussion with readers over whether video games can ever be art the way movies are.

But he also suggested that he may write about the other topics close to his heart at the moment, specifically health issues. "It really stinks that the cancer has returned and that I have spent too many days in the hospital," he wrote. "So on bad days I may write about the vulnerability that accompanies illness. On good days, I may wax ecstatic about a movie so good it transports me beyond illness."

[pantsparty]

Oh my gosh! I just read yesterday he was slowing down. How terrible

[demelza]

Sad, such a sweet man

[falada45]

Two thumbs way down. :N: :N:

[bcv513]

So sad

[Kit]

[Deleted]

Very Sad. he will be joining his buddy doing reviews from above R.I.P.

[eb777888]

I also just heard about his cancer returning. :-(

Fun fact: he and Oprah went on a date before she was with Steadman.

[StormyDixon]

He was sick for a very long time, maybe not so much this time around though, cancer sucks, may he rest in peace

[mamasaurus]

I was listening to NPR when I heard about it--they had Jim DeRogatis on, and he was in tears. I was pretty close to crying, myself.

I'll have to pour out some popcorn for him next time I'm at the movies.