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This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Watch popular content from the following creators: user3531780887049(segman23), your meme. Roger Ebert died yesterday at age 70.Ĭopyright © 2013 NPR. Discover short videos related to thumbs up guy meme on TikTok. GREENE: Kenneth Turan reviews movies for MORNING EDITION, and also for the Los Angeles Times. He didn't want me fixing things, like he did.' Roger Ebert's dad got what he wanted, and we all have been the richer for it. 'He'd come home at night,' Roger said, after spending the day in the offices of these professors, 'and he'd say to me, almost in awe, 'Roger, they just sit there and think.' That's the life he wanted for me. He could fix anything and everything, but he steadfastly refused to teach Roger any of his skills. Roger's father had been an electrician and general handyman at the University of Illinois. Roger was not a thumbs-up, thumbs-down kind of guy, but a dedicated scholar of film who could talk for hours about the camera work in 'Citizen Kane,' or the newest wrinkles in emerging Romanian cinema

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The more I got to know Roger, the more I thought that his TV work did a real disservice to his deep critical gifts. On a more public level, Roger was the best-known film critic in America. Roger promptly called it the critic's friend, and often pulled his out when he saw me, to prove that he was still keeping the faith. Roger puckishly claimed I had changed his life for the better when I introduced him to the Timex Indiglo watch, which lights up in the dark and tells you how much time is left in particularly worrisome films. I first got to know Roger when I started going, as he did, to the film festivals at Sundance and Cannes. Last year, despite his continuing problems, Roger reviewed 306 films - the most of his career. KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE: In the more than 10 years since he was diagnosed with cancer, Roger Ebert refused to give up as much as an inch to the disease that had ravaged his body, but left his mind more nimble and ready to rumble. Ebert continued on TV for a while and even through his illness, he never stopped writing - right up until this week.

GREENE: Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's show changed names several times, but their partnership worked until Siskel's death in 1999. SISKEL: And if you're in the mind for another comedy, 'Man with Two Brains.'ĮBERT: OK. ROGER EBERT: So the verdict, very clearly, is two big yeses for. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, 'AT THE MOVIES WITH GENE SISKEL AND ROGER EBERT') But it was a job that started as a side gig on TV, in 1975, that would make him a household name. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years. The film critic Roger Ebert died yesterday after a decade-long struggle with cancer.