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Ebert will miss the festival
2:00 pm Apr 23
Roger Ebert says he'll have to skip this year's Ebertfest film festival after breaking a hip.
Ebert wrote on his blog on the Chicago Sun-Times' Web site that his doctors have told him he should remain in a Chicago hospital rather than travel to Champaign-Urbana for the festival, which runs through Sunday.
Ebert wrote that, while he'll be almost 150 miles away, his heart will be in Urbana, his hometown.
The 65-year-old film critic is recovering from minor hip surgery after a recent fall.
A film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times for more than 40 years, Ebert has undergone a series of cancer surgeries in recent years, including the removal of a growth on his salivary gland and a tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, that left him unable to speak.
Ebert has been on hiatus from his TV show, "At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper," since 2006.
Jeff Brandt (Jeff Brandt) said on Apr. 24, 2008 at 1:15 am:
Man. He sure has had a lot of hard knocks in the past few years. Old age, disease, and frailty fucking suck.
He should become the ultimate film critic badass and storm out of the hospital still in white gown and booties and drive his ass to Champaign tomorrow morning.