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It's taken me some time to come to terms with the death of film critic Roger Ebert. It's funny how such a loss can affect you, even when you never met the deceased. Yet I feel as if I've known Roger Ebert my whole life, having grown up watching his TV show, first with Gene Siskel and then with Richard Roeper, as religiously as most kids would view Saturday morning cartoons, and reading his print reviews every week. In this way I feel as if I've lost one of my dearest and closest friends. -Insertgroups:12- My relationship with Roger Ebert began at the age of 12, when I picked up a copy of his newly published "The Great Movies" (2002) at the local library. The book was a collection of 100 essays on films he felt would serve as "a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema." These were »
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