Posted
5:49 PM
by Gene
We wish Roger Ebert a complete recovery. To his great credit he has been honest and upfront about his illness. We ruefully recall how when the co-inventor of multimillionaire ad-blurbing and NC-17, Mr. Siskel, was dying his thousands of self-proclaimed news-hack friends helped cover it up. They did neither JERNALISM nor his rep any good. We have long had our differences with Mr. Ebert, but at his too-seldom best he has passion and eloquence and wit, and we hope for more of it in the future.