Roger returns
I'm just adding my voice to those who've already cheered Roger Ebert's re-appearance from his sick bed yesterday. "I won't be back to full production until sometime early next year," he said. "The good news is that my rehabilitation is a profound education in the realities of the daily lives we lead, and my mind is still capable of being delighted by cinematic greatness."
The recovering critic assures us he "will eventually walk, talk, taste, eat, drink and live, more or less, normally. But it will be a struggle, involving another surgery to complete what began in June.
My favorite passage: "I have discovered a goodness and decency in people as exhibited in all the letters, e-mails, flowers, gifts and prayers that have been directed my way. I am overwhelmed and humbled. I offer you my most sincere thanks and my deep and abiding gratitude. If I ever write my memoirs, I have some spellbinding material. How does the Joni Mitchell song go? 'Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone'? One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!"
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 12, 2006 at 3:12 PM
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sardine
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roger loves MA. please read the review in the ny times..................you'll love it, jeffy.
Posted by sardine
at October 12, 2006 3:40 PM
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L.B.
says ...
He can't return too soon. Hoping for a continued recovery. He is much respected and valued in these parts.
His letter was most decent and well-thought-out. As we have come to expect from Rog.
Get well soon.
Posted by L.B.
at October 12, 2006 3:55 PM
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anti-sardine
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God, STFU Sardine with your constant MA trolling polluting all the unrelated discussions here. GET OVER IT! Any sympathy you may have garnered for you cause is lost.
Posted by anti-sardine
at October 12, 2006 5:17 PM
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slothroplt
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You know, when I was a kid, I thought Gene Siskel was smarter and had better taste than the fat guy on the other aisle, Roger Ebert.
Man, was I ever a dumb kid.
Turns out Siskel was an insecure asshole and Ebert was an erudite film scholar with a quick wit and enough sense to understand that different people go to movies for different reasons -- and the wisdom to respect it.
I still don't always agree with him but I sure do appreciate him. He really helped me begin to see and understand the art in filmmaking as I was growing up. I wish him the speediest and most complete recovery.
Posted by slothroplt
at October 13, 2006 3:01 PM