Rutabaga
Apr 24th, 2007, 07:50:56 PM
I had known that Roger Ebert has been quite ill recently, but I hadn't realized the extent of his illness. I'd heard that he now had a tracheostomy, but I didn't know that the cancer in his salivary gland had spread to his jaw, and he's had to have part of his jaw removed.
There's little hope he'll ever return to Ebert and Roeper, but he hasn't lost his spirit...here's an article from the Sun-Times, including a couple of pictures. I have to admit I gasped when I saw the photos, just because he's been such a familiar figure to me, but read the article and you'll see that all in all, he's basically the same Roger we've all known over the years :).
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355049,cst-nws-ebert24.article
There's little hope he'll ever return to Ebert and Roeper, but he hasn't lost his spirit...here's an article from the Sun-Times, including a couple of pictures. I have to admit I gasped when I saw the photos, just because he's been such a familiar figure to me, but read the article and you'll see that all in all, he's basically the same Roger we've all known over the years :).
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355049,cst-nws-ebert24.article