If you want to see another side of "The Eeb", check these hilarious outtakes of him and Siskel hating on each other:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OkwVz_jK3gA

I should note that, despite Ned's insinuations to the contrary, I really like The Eeb: Robert Ebert's Book of Film, which he edited, collects some of my favorite movie-centric writing, and I gotta respect anybody who'll stand by their three-and-a-half star review of The Phantom Menace.

All that said, yes, that picture of him is hilarious.

I love Ebert so much. Good points all around, Ned.

A national treasure.

Well, at least Disney's taking the show in a really great new direction.

Wait, did I say "really great"? What I meant to say was "fucking terrible."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989303.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Ebert has had significant health problems in the last few years such that HE CAN'T FUCKING TALK. Like Ebert or hate Ebert, the man has fought thyroid cancer and salivary gland cancer, has had a significant amount of his jaw and tongue removed to save his life. this is in poor taste.


yes, I got your jokes. they are in poor taste.

Don't forget that he's also the only film critic ever (as far as I'm aware) to have won the Pulitzer.

The man's a genius. Never mind his film crit, the man can write. I remember his recounting of a visit with David Mamet that was an absolute howl because he wrote it pitch perfect like a character in one of Mamet's screnplays might have wrote it (except for the swearing, of course).

He's pretty much the best film critic there ever was or probably will be (no disrespect meant to Siskel, but I just didn't like him as much as I liked Ebert).

I'm not calling him "The Eeb". Y'alls can if you want.

Sort of the Laurel & Hardy of film criticism.

Still, not funny. Next!