# How's Roger Ebert Doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078 "2007-03-30T03:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/41 "2007-04-24T16:27:57Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] [Sane article, but with photo](http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355049,cst-nws-ebert24.article) from today’s Sun-Times. [/QUOTE] Well, he certainly doesn’t look horrific or mishappen from the tiny pic, just different to me, not the same person. Looks kinda like Mel Torme, frankly. Maybe with glasses the resemblance will return somewhat. Good on ya mate. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/42 "2007-04-24T16:28:52Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Well, he certainly doesn’t look horrific or mishappen from the tiny pic, just different to me, not the same person. Looks kinda like Mel Torme, frankly. Maybe with glasses the resemblance will return somewhat. Good on ya mate. [/QUOTE] That’s exactly who I thought he looked like. Freaky. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/43 "2007-04-24T17:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] [Sane article, but with photo](http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355049,cst-nws-ebert24.article) from today’s Sun-Times. [/QUOTE] Yeah, he actually doesn’t look as bad as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/44 "2007-04-24T17:27:15Z")
I have a new hero. [Article in Chicago Sun-Times](http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355049,cst-nws-ebert24.article): [QUOTE=Roger Ebert] I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. As a journalist I can take it as well as dish it out. […] A tracheostomy was necessary so, for the time being, I cannot speak. I make do with written notes and a lot of hand waving and **eye-rolling**. [/QUOTE] After losing half a jawbone, he still has dignity and a sense of humor. Maybe I should link to the article in the Sun-Times… ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/45 "2007-04-27T06:44:50Z")
I saw him on the evening news tonight, and while he may look good for someone that’s had cancer, a tracheostomy and is missing part of their jaw, well, he doesn’t exactly look great. [Here’s a picture from a few days ago.](http://www.komotv.com/news/entertainment/7183936.html) He appeared to be in good spirits for the event, but he sure didn’t look anything [like he used to.](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1002/1521-1mptv.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Ebert%2C%20Roger&seq=32) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/46 "2007-04-28T02:14:41Z")
[It’s his happening, and it freaks him out!](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/PEOPLE/70425001) ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/47 "2007-05-18T15:12:34Z")
Ebert fans rejoice – for the first time in I don’t know how long, there’s a full slate of new reviews out! Welcome back, Rog! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/48 "2007-05-18T15:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=Rodgers01] Ebert fans rejoice – for the first time in I don’t know how long, there’s a full slate of new reviews out! Welcome back, Rog! 🙂 [/QUOTE] Woo! Excellent. I have to admit, every time I saw this thread pop up I got a little nervous before clicking. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/49 "2007-05-18T22:47:13Z")
Glad to see Roger’s back. He had a lot of people hoping he would come back- even [the person](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070507/COMMENTARY/70507001) whose film caused him to say the phrase that’s the title of his newest book. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/50 "2007-05-18T22:59:11Z")
I love his comments on the action and background events in movies, like this one about Shrek the Third: “Inter-species reproduction is so common in Far Far Away that it makes irrelevant such questions as whether Kermit and Miss Piggy ever had sex. Remember that the dragon and Donkey fell in love in the first film. For someone like me who has never understood how birds and snakes do it, thoughts of their marital adventures boggles the mind.” I can’t think of another reviewer who gets into movies in quite that way. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/51 "2007-06-25T16:57:03Z")
[The Answer Man](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMAN) is back. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078/52 "2007-06-25T17:09:45Z")
Yes, I should have posted that myself. Glad to see the big guy is coming along slowly but surely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-roger-ebert-doing/398078.md?page=2)