Roger Ebert cancer returns

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! · Apr 3, 2013

****.

CHICAGO (AP) — Acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert said he's been diagnosed with cancer again and that he will scale back his prolific writing of movie reviews while undergoing radiation treatment.
In a blog post, the 70-year-old said he'll take a "leave of presence."
"I am not going away," the ailing Pulitzer Prize winner wrote in a note posted late Tuesday. "My intent is to continue to write selected reviews but to leave the rest to a talented team of writers. ... What's more, I'll be able at last to do what I've always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review."
The veteran critic battled cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands and lost the ability to speak and eat during previous surgery, which also left him with a facial disfigurement.
Ebert said the cancer recurrence was discovered after a "painful fracture" that made it difficult for him to walk. He hospitalized late last year with a hip fracture.
"It really stinks that the cancer has returned and that I have spent too many days in the hospital," he wrote.

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Chef2 · Apr 3, 2013

Sad indeed.

Here me roar · Apr 3, 2013

Simply awful news.

Mizzougrad96 · Apr 3, 2013

I was lucky enough to watch and analyze Pulp Fiction and Silence of the Lambs with Ebert (and a couple hundred other people) back in the 1990s and it was such a thrill to get to do that with one of the best film critics of all-time.

I hope for nothing but the best for him. This is very sad news.

Riptide · Apr 3, 2013

Just a great writer all around.
Ebert is an American treasure.

Moderator1 · Apr 3, 2013

I have his book. Need to read it. May start tonight. I love baseball season for a lot of reasons, one of them is I read a lot more with the game on in the background.

Cancer blows, as if we needed a reminder. I've never known it to come back gently when it comes a second time.

Riptide · Apr 3, 2013

Ebert's "Two Weeks in the Midday Sun," his journal of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, is a great little look behind the scenes of the event itself and the surrounding drama that accompanies it on the French Riviera.