CHICAGO / USA / CINEMA : 05 April UPDATE: Stars Praise Deceased Film Critic Roger Ebert.

     
      Chicagoan Roger Ebert...the USA's most famous film critic...is dead at age 70.
      The prolific newspaperman turned TV personality...had fought cancer since 2002.
      Despite many surgeries...after 2006...the disease ate away his lower jaw...preventing him from consuming foods, liquids and speaking.

      He announced just last week that cancer had spread to his femur.
      Ebert won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1976...wrote 20 books...and until 2006...appeared on a popular weekly syndicated film review program.
      He became famous for popularizing the use of a 'thumb up' to recommend a movie.

       In 1976...with rival newspaper critic Gene Siskel...he first co-hosted a weekly movie review program on Chicago's public TV station...that was later syndicated nationwide...and ran in various versions...for 31 years.
      Ebert became an avid blogger/tweeter...and continued writing films reviews for the financially troubled Chicago Sun Times...his employer since 1967...and over 200 newspapers...until last week.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304149/Roger-Ebert-dead-Hollywood-stars-lead-flood-tributes-late-film-critic-death-cancer.html