Roger who sweetheart?

Is this a literal question? Or are you kidding?

Literal, I don't know who they are hun

At my age, I never really know what is known to the current fan-base and what isn't. There are things and people I know that younger people haven't a clue about. When I started talking about Kirk and Spock and someone nearby said "Who?" I felt ancient.

Short form, Roger Ebert was a film critic. A fairly good and funny one. Famous enough to have his own tv show as well as a newspaper column. Suffered rather catastrophically from the effects of both cancer and cancer treatment. but kept working almost until his last breath

Good for him

he will be missed. he was for many THE critic. also not to pick on anyone but with the Google now at least when anyone mentions someone online , people really shouldnt have to ask "who is that?" anymore.

Don't know? I weep a little with that reply..

I never missed a Siskel and Ebert. I was devastated when Gene passed away, but...happily now those two are together again, probably up there right now going over their notes for "The Hangover 3".

Let's hope they are in heaven, hun. And not the other place.

Although their critique of hell would be a bitching read!

I. Don't joke about death. Ever.

A lot of films literaly depended on their giving thumbs up or down

Roger Ebert, famed filmed critic of the Chicago Sun-Times. One half of Siskel and Ebert team who were on TV, reviewing films in the 80s and 90s.

Can I get like a link to something about him Hun?

Here you go: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/.....0,602338.story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7UO.....e=results_main Links

Just saw an obit. May he rest in peace.

I looked forward to his and Siskel's show every week when they were on the air.

So did I.

Requiescat in pace. I loved his wit, and the way he could disembowel a movie with a single sentence.

I really hoped he'd beat this next bout of his cancer. ::sighs::

Cancer had pounded him to pieces. Or rather, the cancer treatment had. The fact that he kept working as long as he did shows great fortitude

Yes, it does.

His blog on the Sun Times was always a good read whether it was about film or social criticism.

Rest in peace. Your memory shall live on and on mister Ebert.

He was my favorite movie critic....


RIP.

Aye, its a shame, he seemed like he was doing well for a while too. Cue up Beyond the Valley of the Dolls as tribute!

Oh no...

This.

Love to channel one of those

Especially if it's a Rb Schneider movie.

And hey, they can have Hitchcock and Murnau and some of the other directors sit in on it with them. Hey, bring in John Wayne, Jane Russell, and Bob Hope while you're at it!

Much more seriously, RIP Mister Ebert. My sister will be very dismayed at this news, she loves his books.

RIP

His reviews of Spoorloos and Dark City were some of the best movie reviews i've ever read.

I may have disliked him for disliking David Lynch but he at least could recognize Mulholland Drive as the masterpiece it is.

I suppose it is remarkable, as well as a tribute, that so many of us would like a critic at all

He was a lot more than a critic. The guy was probably one of the greatest film historians we've ever had.

I enjoyed watching him with Richard Roeper at the time. He will be missed.

Watched him when he was on TV ever since the late 70's when our PBS station ran his original show "Sneak Previews" with Gene Siskel.Plus,our local paper printed his review column from the Chicago Sun-Times each friday.I always looked forward to reading it.I will miss him.

*Thumbs down* :(

A gentleman to be sure.

Oh god. The other half of the legendary critic team died?! Well... he was lookin' pretty rough for a while, I guess... Should be expected. Still...

The true end of an era...

I watched Ebert & Siskel on PBS all the way back. My tastes and his were closer to his than they were to Siskel. (but I enjoyed the banter.) He didn't consider Video Games as "art". Congress proved him wrong a couple of weeks ago. Ebert continued to be watchable, until he left television. In later years I noticed his tastes and views got a bit more rigid and "political"and I considered the Political view a shame, because it tainted how I thought of his reviews in later years. Still his movie guide books always had something to say about just about every movie comitted to film, all the way back to the Nitrate days, through to the more recent. He loved movies, and his enthusiasm was infectious.

Siskel- the bald one. Ebert- the one with glasses and pull over sweater.

I remember the PBS intro with the different glitchy soda machine openings (cup falling the wrong way or the cup overflowing).

Ebert wrote a cool book of lists of movie cliches (scenes that seem to always happen in most movies like people in business meetings eating Chinese foods in cartons, a fruit stand in every movie will have a car crsahing through it eventually, the bad guy will get shot and fall down and yet will rise one time for the hero to fire the climactic kill shot).

He will be missed greatly for everyone far and wide and for those who live in the IL/Chicago area especially such as myself, being a native here in the area. I watched Siskel and Ebert when I was younger and to be honest they always reminded me of the two hecklers from the Muppet show, even though it was about the movies in some way shape or form.

But Honestly getting into my car after work today and turning on the radio to hear about his untimely passing was devastating. Also Learning of how the cancer which he fought and endured for several years finally over took him finally, he is truly now in a far better place with out pain and suffering and I give my condolences to a great man.

The man loved movies and wrote about them well. That's all you can ask. Nothin' but respect.

It's been a tough few days for pop culture, especially the comics. Besides Ebert's sudden passing (one day after publicly announcing that his cancer had returned and that he was taking a 'leave of presence' for a time), we also lost Carmine Infantino (one of mainstream comic's premiere talents during the 50's through 80's -- http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/04/0.....fantino-r-i-p/) and George Gladir (one of the chief writers at Archie Comics and the co-creator of Sabrina -- http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/04/0.....-gladir-r-i-p/) yesterday. Plus, we also lost Bob Clarke (one of the main artists at Mad Magazine for decades -- http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/df.....35#fbLoggedOut) and Jane Henson (wife and helper to the late Muppeteer, Jim Henson -- http://articles.latimes.com/2013/ap.....enson-20130404) over the last few days.

Siskel and Ebert were the ones who taught me to respect movie critics, or at least to respect them as movie critics. I didn't always agree with them on a number of points or even in regards to some films, but I always took their critiques seriously. It was obvious that they both loved movies in general, both the medium and the phenomenon, even if they reviled specific films or specific trends. I didn't take their final pronouncements too literally since, as I noted, I didn't always agree with them, but I did find them to be an excellent gauge to set my expectations to. No other critic or team of critics have impressed me in quite the same way as they did... though Richard Roeper came pretty close.

Ebert was especially an icon, having written movie reviews since the late 60's and being the first movie critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1975. His catchphrases "Save us the aisle seat" and "two thumbs up" are part of the American lexicon now (and were trademarked). He and Siskel have been spoofed many times (the two-headed dragon in George Lucas' Willow was based on them) and they were oft imitated, though never duplicated. They were both so well-known, even today, a decade and a half after Siskel's death, that it is very unusual indeed that anyone would have never heard of them; as a team of critics, they were both iconic.

their review of NORTH is a classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAAEFRVQU14

he will be missed