4 April 2013 9:51 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Film critic Roger Ebert has died at 70 from complications due to cancer.
Thumbs up or thumbs down. It was the primary gesture of the long-running TV series that Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert co-hosted, first with Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune, and then ― after Siskel’s death in 1999 ― with Sun-Times colleague Richard Roeper.
Ebert, who had remained a film critic for the paper since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago as he was getting ready to go home for hospice care, his wife, Chaz, said in a statement posted on his blog Thursday.
Ebert was 70. He passed away from complications due to cancer.
This news came merely one day after Ebert announced a “Leave of Presence” on account of the cancer he’d been fighting since 2002 suddenly resurfacing. The announcement arrived 46 years to the date that the beloved critic began writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. »
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