RIP, famous person

[infinite monkey]

I read this:

"We were getting ready to go home today for hospice care, when he looked at us, smiled, and passed away. No struggle, no pain, just a quiet, dignified transition," his wife, Chaz Ebert, said in a statement Thursday.

I thought that was nice. I'm a movie buff of sorts and I always enjoyed Siskel and Ebert. I hadn't really seen any of the later stuff with the guy who replaced Gene Siskel.

Love his critques or hate them, he was an icon.

Here are some great quotes from him:

Ebert: The film philosopher
-- "Every great film should seem new every time you see it."

-- "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough."

-- "If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't."

-- "If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy."

--from his review of Tom Green's 2001 comedy "Freddy Got Fingered" of which he wrote one of his most scathing reviews:

"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."

--Reviewing "Crocodile Dundee II": "I've seen audits that were more thrilling."

See you at the movies, Mr Ebert.