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Written by asap
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Friday, 13 October 2006 |
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 Roger Ebert is hoping he recovers in time for the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and co-host of the "Ebert & Roeper" TV show had surgery in June to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. He also had emergency surgery July 1 after a blood vessel burst.
IN HIS WORDS
In a letter published Thursday in the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert announced that his first movie review in months will run Friday. He decided to review "The Queen" after an "Ebert & Roeper" producer brought him a copy of the movie on DVD. He plans to continuing doing occasional reviews until he's fully recovered.
But he says he's looking forward to getting back to work full time early next year.
"One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!" he wrote.
MORE ON EBERT
Ebert, 64, had undergone cancer surgery three times before the June operation -- once in 2002 to remove a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland and twice on his salivary gland the next year.
He has been a film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967 and won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975. That same year he teamed up with Gene Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune to launch their TV show. Siskel died in 1999, and Ebert began co-hosting the show with fellow Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper.
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