Film Critic Roger Ebert Dead at 70 Of Cancer

New submitter AndyKrish links to the BBC's report that just two days after penning a "leave of presence" in which he says "I am not going away," Roger Ebert — "arguably the world's most famous film critic" — has died of cancer. Ebert was a long-time film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as (most famously along with Gene Siskel) for a string of television shows. In the course of dealing with persistent cancer that affected his thyroid and jaw, and which took away his voice, Ebert became a prolific blogger on movies as well as other topics, and drew on cutting edge technology to regain the power of speech.

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Most world famous??

[guantamanera]

I never heard of Mr Ebert, may he rest in peace, until today. Maybe he is anglophone world famous, but not world's most famous film criti. I am very sure 1 chinese critic or indian critic will take his spot away easily. And I do know of Anglophone critics, one that I follow is Robbie Collin.

Re:Most world famous??

[TechyImmigrant]

As far as I know, he's primarily known in the United States.
I had never heard of him while growing up in the UK.

He and partner pioneered the 'low information' form of review, that amounted to 3 states, where all reviews were members of the set {two thumbs down, 1 thumb up, 2 thumbs up}

That's all I know on this topic.