Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic will be returning to reviewing films full time later this month. He will NOT be returning to TV for his show “Ebert & Roeper” because he is unable to speak at all. How is he unable to speak? He had surgery back in January that ended in complications, a mistake happened during his surgery that he lost his speaking voice. He had surgeries before, one in 2006 which he had a cancerous growth on his salivary gland, he also had emergency surgery where a blood vessel burst near the site of the operation.
While Ebert is no longer able to speak, he can still see and hear, so his love for movies hasn’t ended. He says he is cancer free and successfully battled it, and is not ready to think about more surgery.
He will soon be attending the 10th Annual Ebertfest at the University of Illinois which runs from April 23-27.
The Associated Press reports:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jo4rFSX-P5D16qsyGvf8KZuEcxYwD8VPAF380
I was never a fan of Roger Ebert’s reviewing because he always gave good movies that I liked negative reviews. I never pay attention to critics to begin with, I judge movies by my own opinion.
I ain’t all that excited for Ebert coming back but I hope he gets well.
It will be interesting to see what film he will review in his return.
Kev
K'Brocking 
Ebert once had the nickname “the fastest typist in Hollywood.”
Ebert once had the nickname “the fastest typist in Hollywood.”
We need good news like this. Its too bad that he lost his speaking voice. He was a good reviewer and a good screenplay writer. Apparantly a good typer too!
I liked him when he did that show with the ‘thumbs up’ on movies with the balder skinnier guy. Now the movie reviews are just boring and I dont trust them.
Some people say he got sick because Vincent Gallo the actor and artist and musician cursed him and sent him cancer. The last guy Vincent Gallo did that to actually got sick too. But that’s just hogwarsh.
At least we’ll have good typed reviews even though they wont be live and in person with Robert Ebert. I hope he gets better.
His lips always looked purple. Like those mentat guys from ‘Dune’ who were like human computers ie Dr.Yueh.
If I remember correctly, Robert Ebert didn’t like the Dune movie. I thought Paul Atredies’ mom in that movie was HOT. Holy smokes. Even bald she was SMOKIN! She was some British actress that never really did too much after that.
Wonder if Robert Ebert will ike the new Dune.
We need good news like this. Its too bad that he lost his speaking voice. He was a good reviewer and a good screenplay writer. Apparantly a good typer too!
I liked him when he did that show with the ‘thumbs up’ on movies with the balder skinnier guy. Now the movie reviews are just boring and I dont trust them.
Some people say he got sick because Vincent Gallo the actor and artist and musician cursed him and sent him cancer. The last guy Vincent Gallo did that to actually got sick too. But that’s just hogwarsh.
At least we’ll have good typed reviews even though they wont be live and in person with Robert Ebert. I hope he gets better.
His lips always looked purple. Like those mentat guys from ‘Dune’ who were like human computers ie Dr.Yueh.
If I remember correctly, Robert Ebert didn’t like the Dune movie. I thought Paul Atredies’ mom in that movie was HOT. Holy smokes. Even bald she was SMOKIN! She was some British actress that never really did too much after that.
Wonder if Robert Ebert will ike the new Dune.