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FILE - This January, 2011, file photo provided by Roger Ebert shows the famous film critic wearing a silicone prosthesis over his lower face and neck. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert works in his office at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
FILE - This January, 2011, file photo provided by Roger Ebert shows the famous film critic wearing a silicone prosthesis over his lower face and neck. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, film critic Roger Ebert welcomes people to the opening of the 13th annual Ebertfest film festival on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign. On his blog Tuesday, April 2, 2013, Ebert said that he is undergoing radiation treatment for cancer that was discovered after he fractured his hip last year. -
FILE - This June 14, 2010 file photo shows film critic Roger Ebert, left, alongside wife Chaz Hammelsmith, accepting the "Person of the Year" Award at the 14th Annual Webby Awards in New York. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
FILE - This Jan. 2009 file photo shows film critic and author Roger Ebert, recipient of the Honorary Life Member Award, at the Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Ebert, joined by his wife Chaz, was honored with the Gold Hugo Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 4, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. -
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert is photographed at home in his office, Monday, April 23, 2007, in Chicago. Ebert plans to attend his annual festival for overlooked movies at the University of Illinois this week, returning to public view for the first time since having cancer surgery. -
Film critic Roger Ebert, left, and Alejandro Amenabar of Spain, director of the Oscar-nominated foreign language film "The Sea Inside," pose at a reception for the Best Foreign Language Film nominees, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif, Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. -
FILE - This July 18, 2005 file photo shows film critic Roger Ebert next to a sidewalk medallion bearing his name that was unveiled under the marquee of the historic Chicago Theatre. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
From left to right, film critic Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, Lynn Norment, Managing Editor of Johnson Publishing Company, and musician Wyclef Jean dance at Ebony Magazine's Pre-Oscar Salute to Hollywood in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005. -
** FILE** Roger Ebert arrives to the 32nd Annual AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Meryl Streep on Thursday, June 10, 2004 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Ebert, a movie critic, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 23, 2005. -
FILE - This May 17, 2004 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize winning film critc Roger Ebert at the 57th International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. -
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Ebert attends the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on February 28, 2004. -
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Ebert attends the IFP Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on March 22, 2003. -
FILE-- Gene Siskel, left, and Roger Ebert are shown at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in this Feb. 6, 1996 file photo. Siskel, known for the thumbs-up and thumbs-down reviews he and Ebert shared on their popular TV show, died Saturday, Feb. 20, 1999. He was 53. -
The man who helped shape film criticism as we know it, Gene Siskel (Pictured left), died yesterday (Saturday, February 20) at the age of 53 in Chicago, Illinois. Siskel died of complications resulting from his May, 1998, brain surgery. Along with longtime partner Roger Ebert (Pictured right), Siskel is best known for the syndicated show "Siskel & Ebert." He had recently taken a leave of absence from his many professional duties, which also included acting as longtime film critic for the Chicago Tribune, film critic for "CBS This Morning" and local Chicago television station WBBM, and columnist for TV Guide. Siskel is survived by his wife, Marlene, and three children. -
Actresses Cameron Diaz (left) and Helena Bonham-Carter pose for Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert as he takes their photo at Toronto International Film Festival luncheon Saturday Sept. 12, 1998. -
Jay Leno, left, gestures as he chats with film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, right, during the taping of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," Wednesday, March 18, 1998, in Burbank, Calif. Siskel and Ebert re-enacted a scene from "Titanic" and joined the "Dancing Siskel & Eberts" on the show. -
** FILE ** Film critic Roger Ebert is seen in this 1994 file photo. Ebert, in town for his annual Overlooked Film Festival, slipped on a newly waxed floor and suffered two hairline fractures in his left shoulder Saturday, April 27, 2002, in the student union at the University of Illinois. -
FILE--Film critic Gene Siskel, left, shown here with Roger Ebert speaking at Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., in this Dec. 5, 1997 file photo, recently broadened his education with a crash course in acting, given by the stars of the new movie "Twilight." Actors Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman and Paul Newman got a chance at critiquing the critic. -
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. Here, Roger Ebert, left, and Gene Siskel are shown in this February 1, 1995, file photo as Erie Street at McClurg Court is renamed to honor the movie critics. -
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Award-winning Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper (left) steps in as permanent co-host with Roger Ebert (right) on "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies" -
FILE - This undated file photo originally released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, shows movie critics Roger Ebert, right, and Gene Siskel. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. Ebert and Siskel, who died in 1999, trademarked the "two thumbs up" phrase. -
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, has died Thursday, April 4, 2013, according to a family friend. He was 70 years old. In this undated file photo, Gene Siskel, left, is shown with Roger Ebert. (Globe Photos via Zuma Press/ MCT)
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