Correlated by Pat Darnell | Apr 11, 2013 | Bryan TX
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"You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories"Roger Ebert wrote those words in 1980 for The Atlantic magazine, a love letter to the medium that became his employer: the movies. After a 46-year tenure as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, several decades hosting a hugely influential television show, a landmark Pulitzer Prize, and countless thumbs in both directions, Ebert died Thursday at age 70. ( Kevin Fallon Apr 4, 2013 LINK)
Roger Ebert, Movie Critic of the Mainstream, Dies at 70 - NYTimes.com:
We wake up one day and find that Roger Ebert, the Ted Copol of movie critiques, is passed away. Here is the website to find many Ebert reviews. Sadly, he won't be giving us his cinema wit or wisdom from this time on.
Unless someone gives Ebert life after death, we will miss his thumbs up ... OH WAIT WHAT IS THIS?
'via Blog this'
"Now the famed critic is in a new jurisdiction, where he can see the blessings poured out on God's humble servants in heaven, from his seat of eternal torment and sorrow in Hell! It's too late for the fool Roger Ebert! WBC will continue to bind those who still live in Doomed america to God's eternal laws and Word, so you, like Roger, are without excuse!"That is what is being said by the Westboro Church Gang, as they talk ill about the dead. Nice going W-boro Dissidents, especially now that Roger Ebert can't offer you his rebuttal. He's dead.
These boneheads call him a "fag enabler." What the hell does that mean? Why does this issue, which isn't an issue, create such misanthropic and seething, egotistical, hatred of humanity?
Ebert might respond to Westboro Baptist wankers this way:
"You misguided cynical, carper, caviler, detractors, disbelievers, doubters, doubting Thomas's, egoist, egotistic, flouters, misanthropic, misogamist, misogynist, mockers, pessimistic, satirist, scoffers, skeptical, sneerers, unbelievers ... would make a wonderful movie project. Two thumbs up."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/movies/roger-ebert-film-critic-dies.html?src=me&ref=general
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-picket-roger-434594
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/04/roger-ebert-s-10-best-reviews-and-10-best-zingers.html
2 comments:
Last weekend, one of the gigs we played was a benefit that was tied in with the dedication of a stretch of highway in the name of a local fallen soldier. The show we played was being put on by a biker church...they were raising funds for the scholarship foundation that has been set up in the soldier's name.
What I've been told is that when the funeral was scheduled the Westboro group was in town to grab publicity as the do. A large group of these same bikers found out the motel where the Westboro folks were staying and they gathered and parked there in wait on the morning of the service. The Westboros never came out of their rooms.
There you have it folks. MooPig has the best readers... who also become our word on the street.
Westboro Baptist Church is a piece of shit. And, gay-bashing is done mostly by repressed sexual perverts.
There is no other way to describe them. The more we hate them, though, the more free press they get. That sucks too.
Roger Ebert never did anything bad to anyone ever in his long career. Even when he gave a thumbs down, the recipient movie maker was not harmed, rather humbled.
I am mystified by our society and the shape it's in. Dear Pribek, your eyewitness to the bikers' siege is priceless. Thanks for sharing.
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