Roger Ebert's Battle with Cancer.

**Mr-K** · 18 Feb 2010, 04:25 PM

... Roger Ebert is an atheist, why wouldn't her rule something like that out?

Update: Ebert Responds (Positively). Although he wanted to clear up that he's not actually dying.

**MarsKitten** · 18 Feb 2010, 08:00 PM

Robert Ebert: Fuck cancer, I won bitches.

**Drewbacca** · 19 Feb 2010, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by BerringerX

Never mind the fact that Siskel's been dead for 11 years.

Yeah. I think he was trying to say due to Ebert's atheist beliefs he won't be reuniting with Siskel in Heaven to review movies together. Since there is no heaven.

**YellerDog** · 20 Feb 2010, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Since there is no heaven.

Dude. Spoiler that shit.

**Drewbacca** · 20 Feb 2010, 02:00 PM

How can we know for sure though?!

**Compass** · 20 Feb 2010, 02:34 PM

The article's a good read and I do like Ebert. However, this is some seriously pretentious shit:

Ebert scribbles constantly, his pen digging into page after page, and then he tears the pages out of his notebook and drops them to the floor around him. Maybe twenty or thirty times, the sound of paper being torn from a spiral rises from the aisle seat in the last row.

I was surprised to hear how close he was with Siskel. They really came off as mortal enemies when they appeared together on Leno. Siskel's constant cracks about Ebert's then fatness were always just over the line into mean-spirited territory. Guess there was no bad blood.

**kingoffighters** · 20 Feb 2010, 02:49 PM

That's just an act.

**Fe 26** · 20 Feb 2010, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Compass

The article's a good read and I do like Ebert. However, this is some seriously pretentious shit:

Can we as a nation move past our need to all act like Joe Cool and the Fonze?

A little bit of intellectualism is ok. A little bit of pretentiousness is ok.

We are becoming a nation of stupid bland boring people because we all want to be "cool" 24 hours a day.