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Roger Ebert

Film critic

United States · 1942–2013

Film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 and the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Treated for thyroid and salivary gland cancer from 2002, he lost his lower jaw and the ability to speak, eat and drink in 2006, and turned his journal at rogerebert.com into the most widely read thing he wrote. He continued reviewing until two days before his death in April 2013.

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Thank God I found sobriety. I could sustain myself with my work, my reading, the movies, my friends. And walking, walking, walking. Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. ... I can't remember the last time I felt bored. I can't eat, drink or talk, and yet I have so many other resources to keep myself entertained. I think I must be a case study.

Recorded Roger Ebert's Journal, rogerebert.com, 6 November 2010 source ↗

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