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The man who put film criticism on everyone's cultural map and one of Chicago's favorite sons Roger Ebert celebrates his 66th birthday today. This serves to remind us of the gaping hole left next to Rich Roeper (a voice from the Peanut Gallery, "What about the gaping hole that is Rich Roeper?" ha-ha, smartypants) during Suffice to say, if they were to get rid of Rich et al entirely, have Ebert simply write longhand for 25 minutes about the week's films, and then just hold it up to the screen for us to read for the final five, we'd be fine with that.

It's been inspiring to see Roger Ebert slowly working his way back to writing movie reviews after his long illness. He's even gone so far as to give readers reviews of movies he missed while he was convalescing. Just don't expect to see the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" signs in upcoming episodes "Ebert & Roeper at the Movies." Disney-ABC Domestic Television, which produces the show, said that the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic has withdrawn...

Tonight, Roger Ebert will make a public appearance at the opening of his annual Overlooked Film Festival. It's the ninth annual, and it's held at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Roger wrote a really great piece yesterday about his recent surgeries and his illness as it concerned his attendance at the festival. Cancer of the salivary gland spread to his right lower jaw, and a segment of his jaw was removed. He had two...

Roger Ebert posted his first review today since he began recovery four months ago after undergoing surgery for salivary cancer. And we couldn’t be happier. Maybe that makes us “boosterish,” but we are. True to the honesty that’s been a hallmark of his reviews for the past 40 years, Ebert posted a lengthy description of his recent illness and rehabilitation. He notes that he doesn’t remember much more than “fragmentary episodes” from July and August...

As Roger Ebert continues his recovery, more and more people are contributing to our Get Well Roger photo group on Flickr. Thanks to all the bloggers and writers who’ve helped spread the word about our project, including the folks at ABC-7, Oscarwatch and RogerEbert.com. The best part about this is hearing from all the folks who’ve been affected by Ebert’s writing over the years, both in the Flickr group and on our original post. More...

It’s been a quiet month since we last heard an update about Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times film critic and co-host of “Ebert and Roeper.” Back then, we posted some suggestions for putting out some good vibes to speed along the man’s recovery. But the best suggestion came from one of our commenters, FernLaPlante: “I think we should all take Polaroids of ourselves flashing the Thumbs Up sign and mail them to Ebert and/or ABC-7....