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He was named to the U.S. film critics. For over four decades, Roger Ebert our decisions at the box office out.
His column and tick the "thumbs up and thumbs down" routine with TV partner Gene Siskel were legendary.
But now that the famous voice was silenced.
"Do you remember what his last words were? Bowers asked.
"No, because I knew it would be my last word, otherwise I would have written something great," said Ebert.
In the past three years, Ebert has spoken through a computerized voice that speaks species.
His jaw is gone, ravaged by cancer that nearly killed him.
"They are able to talk in your sleep?" Bowers asked.
"All good in my dreams. I mean, all I want." Life is normal, "he said." Sometimes in a dream that I do not really remember, but suddenly I can talk again. "
Ebert could certainly never dreamed this story of his life when he started in the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. His elegant and quick mind make him a must-read movie reviews.
This makes a great movie with Roger Ebert?
"Sorry," he said. "I am delighted by its size. If we do, sometimes even feel a tingling in my back. Honestly, it feels almost spiritual."
Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for film criticism. Soon he ventured into television, teaming with rival critic Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune.
"Do not talk at first," said Ebert. "Then we talked about, but we fought. Our rivalry was real. But the whole time we were best friends and best. We were like brothers."
And he fought like brothers on the screen. up your arguments and bitter thumb, thumbs down "rating system they made famous.
"I had the idea of the thumb, which has never been used to investigate them," Ebert said. "We were the first. Trademark Law had them was the idea of genes."
Siskel and Ebert were a staple in homes across the country during the 80s and 90s. But in 1999 the club had a sad end when Gene Siskel died of a brain tumor.
"He taped his last show just weeks before his death," Ebert said. "It must have been in pain but he never complained again."
"Have you lost?" Bowers asked.
"I miss her every day," he said.
Just three years after Siskel died, Roger Ebert gave his devastating diagnosis of cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands then.
He fought for his life. But he was not alone.
Chaz Ebert lawyer is the wife of Roger. They found each other in late 1980 and have since been a team.
"Sometimes I really think it was kind of fate we were together," said Chaz.
"At this disease that had to learn a new language - which is on base," said Bowers.
"I would say that perhaps the language of love," she said.
"I was alone for an extended period," said Roger. "I met them all he had. But. This is no ordinary woman."
And what Roger has done is extraordinary.
Over the years of hospitalization and life-threatening complications Chaz support of her husband, even if it was so difficult for them to go forward.
"It happens sometimes feel that he wanted to go," said Chaz. "There was a time I had to fight not only for himself, but say the fight to him, why is life worth living."
But then, after doctors tried several times and could not reconstruct the jaw, it was decided Ebert - no more surgeries. Want to spend the rest of his life unable to speak.
But all these years in the technology of television has a unique opportunity provided.
Leary works for CereProc Graham, a Scottish company is the creation of a Roger Ebert "voice" by thousands of his own words.
"He has a large archive of documents recording of his voice when he had the ability to speak," said Leary. " And we use that information to provide a voice for them. "
Ebert has been using a computer voice at the other end.
We asked him when he hears the voice of Roger, how he feels?
"It looks like me. That's fine. But I have good comic timing and delivery are very personal, and not a computer voice will never be able to reproduce themselves. One can not tell a joke to a computer."
Chaz Bowers asked: "If the computer voice of Roger, what it is to hear?"
"The first time I heard it was overwhelming because I did not realize I had lost my voice," he said.
"Chaz, I love you," Roger said.
"I love you too."
He was 43 years Roger first of the Chicago Sun-Times, fresh from college came. Not much these days, but when he returns, people will gather around and say hello. A touch of your heart, show your appreciation.
"People talk about what the heart and soul of the paper," said editor John Barron. "And it's kind of cliché, but true in this case."
But while he is visiting, Roger must also work. free and revitalized cancer, 68 years, millions of readers in his blog, and the production of new books - including a recipe for rice cooker, a gadget that displayed when trying to lose weight before the illness.
Although Roger receives food through a tube, still like to cook with Chaz. He says he is happy at his side in the kitchen. . . and film.
Film critics in the U.S. is back. Up to ten movies a week and opens a new version of his television show later this month. And instead of avoiding the public, and how it is, Roger is covered.
"I said," To hell with it - that's my I see people with problems to move forward with their lives like me and do not hide because, "he said." know that I do not want to see, but I think, so please do your problem. "
Roger Ebert is a different person. But still there is a constant ...
"We are in mission together," he said of himself and Chaz. "To everyone happy."
Top 10 movies Roger Ebert in 2010:1. "Social Networks"2. "The King of speech"3. "Black Swan"4. "I am Love"5. "Winter's Bone"6. "Inception"7. "The secret of their eyes"8. "The Americans"9. "The Kids Are Alright"10. "The writer"
He was named to the U.S. film critics. For over four decades, Roger Ebert our decisions at the box office out.
His column and tick the "thumbs up and thumbs down" routine with TV partner Gene Siskel were legendary.
But now that the famous voice was silenced.
"Do you remember what his last words were? Bowers asked.
"No, because I knew it would be my last word, otherwise I would have written something great," said Ebert.
In the past three years, Ebert has spoken through a computerized voice that speaks species.
His jaw is gone, ravaged by cancer that nearly killed him.
"They are able to talk in your sleep?" Bowers asked.
"All good in my dreams. I mean, all I want." Life is normal, "he said." Sometimes in a dream that I do not really remember, but suddenly I can talk again. "
Ebert could certainly never dreamed this story of his life when he started in the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. His elegant and quick mind make him a must-read movie reviews.
This makes a great movie with Roger Ebert?
"Sorry," he said. "I am delighted by its size. If we do, sometimes even feel a tingling in my back. Honestly, it feels almost spiritual."
Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for film criticism. Soon he ventured into television, teaming with rival critic Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune.
"Do not talk at first," said Ebert. "Then we talked about, but we fought. Our rivalry was real. But the whole time we were best friends and best. We were like brothers."
And he fought like brothers on the screen. up your arguments and bitter thumb, thumbs down "rating system they made famous.
"I had the idea of the thumb, which has never been used to investigate them," Ebert said. "We were the first. Trademark Law had them was the idea of genes."
Siskel and Ebert were a staple in homes across the country during the 80s and 90s. But in 1999 the club had a sad end when Gene Siskel died of a brain tumor.
"He taped his last show just weeks before his death," Ebert said. "It must have been in pain but he never complained again."
"Have you lost?" Bowers asked.
"I miss her every day," he said.
Just three years after Siskel died, Roger Ebert gave his devastating diagnosis of cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands then.
He fought for his life. But he was not alone.
Chaz Ebert lawyer is the wife of Roger. They found each other in late 1980 and have since been a team.
"Sometimes I really think it was kind of fate we were together," said Chaz.
"At this disease that had to learn a new language - which is on base," said Bowers.
"I would say that perhaps the language of love," she said.
"I was alone for an extended period," said Roger. "I met them all he had. But. This is no ordinary woman."
And what Roger has done is extraordinary.
Over the years of hospitalization and life-threatening complications Chaz support of her husband, even if it was so difficult for them to go forward.
"It happens sometimes feel that he wanted to go," said Chaz. "There was a time I had to fight not only for himself, but say the fight to him, why is life worth living."
But then, after doctors tried several times and could not reconstruct the jaw, it was decided Ebert - no more surgeries. Want to spend the rest of his life unable to speak.
But all these years in the technology of television has a unique opportunity provided.
Leary works for CereProc Graham, a Scottish company is the creation of a Roger Ebert "voice" by thousands of his own words.
"He has a large archive of documents recording of his voice when he had the ability to speak," said Leary. " And we use that information to provide a voice for them. "
Ebert has been using a computer voice at the other end.
We asked him when he hears the voice of Roger, how he feels?
"It looks like me. That's fine. But I have good comic timing and delivery are very personal, and not a computer voice will never be able to reproduce themselves. One can not tell a joke to a computer."
Chaz Bowers asked: "If the computer voice of Roger, what it is to hear?"
"The first time I heard it was overwhelming because I did not realize I had lost my voice," he said.
"Chaz, I love you," Roger said.
"I love you too."
He was 43 years Roger first of the Chicago Sun-Times, fresh from college came. Not much these days, but when he returns, people will gather around and say hello. A touch of your heart, show your appreciation.
"People talk about what the heart and soul of the paper," said editor John Barron. "And it's kind of cliché, but true in this case."
But while he is visiting, Roger must also work. free and revitalized cancer, 68 years, millions of readers in his blog, and the production of new books - including a recipe for rice cooker, a gadget that displayed when trying to lose weight before the illness.
Although Roger receives food through a tube, still like to cook with Chaz. He says he is happy at his side in the kitchen. . . and film.
Film critics in the U.S. is back. Up to ten movies a week and opens a new version of his television show later this month. And instead of avoiding the public, and how it is, Roger is covered.
"I said," To hell with it - that's my I see people with problems to move forward with their lives like me and do not hide because, "he said." know that I do not want to see, but I think, so please do your problem. "
Roger Ebert is a different person. But still there is a constant ...
"We are in mission together," he said of himself and Chaz. "To everyone happy."
Top 10 movies Roger Ebert in 2010:1. "Social Networks"2. "The King of speech"3. "Black Swan"4. "I am Love"5. "Winter's Bone"6. "Inception"7. "The secret of their eyes"8. "The Americans"9. "The Kids Are Alright"10. "The writer"
