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Roger Ebert's new voice

post #1 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:05pm
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This is great stuff. Keep at it Roger! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_482733.html
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post #2 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:06pm
That is amazing.
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post #3 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:13pm
I heard that he was on Oprah yest and was gonna look for the link later...Amazing....Throat cancer is a killer!
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post #4 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:31pm
was gonna post something about this. havent seen him since he was on his tv show. its so sad to see someone who was so vocal and out spoken look like that. its almost scary.
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post #5 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:40pm
love Roger Ebert. i was a fan of him even when he was poked fun of for his weight 10-20 years ago.
but he has long since been to lax on his commentary so im not a fan of that anymore but still love him
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post #6 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:49pm
i've assisted in this kind of surgery... its the most freaky type to see because you pull his face up and everything else down and just take out everything - only leaving the spine, blood vessels, and nerves. Air comes in through tracheostomy and food/liquid goes through G-tube (directly into the stomach). Ebert was always a known critic but he is a great screen writer too. Its scary to see someone who'm you're so used to see talking for a living like that.
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post #7 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:51pm
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Originally Posted by LawrenceMD View Post
i've assisted in this kind of surgery... its the most freaky type to see because you pull his face up and everything else down and just take out everything - only leaving the spine, blood vessels, and nerves. Air comes in through tracheostomy and food/liquid goes through G-tube (directly into the stomach).

Ebert was always a known critic but he is a great screen writer too. Its scary to see someone who'm you're so used to see talking for a living like that.

that is so horrible.
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post #8 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:52pm
I'm glad he looks so happy and is still able to smile and create facial expressions. As sho'nuff said, he's become so soft on crap in recent years that it's difficult to take him seriously as a guide to what you should watch. That being said, he's far and away the best writer of all the critics (profound yet unpretentious -- the opposite of what the New Yorker serves up every week), and it shows that he used to study film at an academic level. One fortuitous by-product of his illness and surgery is that he has taken to writing at least two to three times as much as he did beforehand. His blog is entertaining and I don't think he misses more than a handful of films every year. The voice is a bit odd. Anyone notice that it sounds like him at the beginning of words, but then becomes very Stephen Hawking-ish near the end?
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post #9 of 57
3/2/10 at 6:56pm
Shame this sort of thing isn't available to ordinary folks, still neat they did this for him.
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post #10 of 57
3/2/10 at 7:07pm
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Originally Posted by sho'nuff View Post
love Roger Ebert. i was a fan of him even when he was poked fun of for his weight 10-20 years ago.
but he has long since been to lax on his commentary so im not a fan of that anymore but still love him

this is such an odd statement...
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post #11 of 57
3/2/10 at 7:57pm
He's from my alma mater and put on the coolest film festivals at UIUC. Why the hell was that lady holding his hand?
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post #12 of 57
3/2/10 at 8:01pm
Roger advertised his interview last week on Twitter. I Tivo'd it. It did not disappoint. Amazing!!!
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post #13 of 57
3/2/10 at 8:15pm
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He's from my alma mater and put on the coolest film festivals at UIUC.

Why the hell was that lady holding his hand?

She's his wife.

It's really amazing what the technology could do for him. Makes me want to start recording my voice into my own computer -- just in case.
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post #14 of 57
3/2/10 at 9:49pm
Now he just have to walk around with a Macbook everywhere!
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post #15 of 57
3/2/10 at 9:54pm
the esquire article gives a more detailed look on his surgery and life post-surgery. I am not a fan of his but I admire his positive attitude. he even mentioned his attendance for this year's ebertfest.
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