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Ultimately, it’s more of an inconsistent cry into the void than the conversation starter it could have been.
An open letter to Roger Ebert from Sundance
From James Rocchi at The Huffington Post:
Roger Ebert is not, in fact, up in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival right now. I am, screening films and working in the cold, and while there's plenty of old friends and new about -- every press screening at Sundance is like a high school reunion, if only for the A.V. Club — I was thinking of Ebert this week fairly obvious reasons. I've met Roger often over the years, and for some reason — some stupid internal mechanism of self-deprecation, I would wager — I always, always assume he will not remember me, or who I am. He does, of course, because he's a gentleman, but in my mind I tell myself that Ebert's mental file of "white dudes with glasses who are film critics and like to wear sweater vests" must be full to bursting, so I always re-introduce myself when I run into him. But I have friends who know him well enough, and one of them told me a few weeks ago "Ebert won't be at Sundance; he's having surgery on the 24th, for his voice."
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