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Roger Ebert, the popular film critic and television co-host who along with his fellow reviewer and sometime sparring partner Gene Siskel could lift or sink the fortunes of a movie with their trademark thumbs up or thumbs down, died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 70.
His death was announced by The Chicago Sun-Times, where he had worked for many years.
Mr. Ebert's struggle with cancer, starting in 2002, gave him an altogether different public image - as someone who refused to surrender to illness. Though he had operations for cancer of the thyroid, salivary glands and chin, lost his ability to eat, drink and speak (a prosthesis partly obscured the loss of much of his chin, and he was fed through a tube) and became a gaunter version of his once-portly self, he continued to write reviews and commentary and published a cookbook he had started, on meals that could be made with a rice cooker.
"When I am writing, my problems become invisible, and I am the same person I always was," he told Esquire magazine in 2010. "All is well. I am as I should be."
In recent years, Mr. Ebert had written extensively about his illness via Twitter, on Facebook and in his blog. ...
More (w/photo):
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html?pagewanted=all
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