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Happy Birthday, Roger!

By Rob Christopher in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 18, 2010 6:00PM

Today, Chicago's own Roger Ebert celebrates his 68th. We know he occasionally checks in on Chicagoist, so we'd like to wish him the happiest of birthdays. What would our experience of movies be without you, Roger! Here's a tribute by Martin Scorsese that was captured at The Cannes Film Festival in 2009 (and doesn't Roger's artificial voice sound uncannily like HAL 9000?)