“Me kicking cancer’s ass. Two Thumbs Up!”

If you haven’t heard already, Roger Ebert the film critic, had cancer. After getting surgery to remove it from his salivary gland, his face was left drooping due to results. Despite how unsightly it may look, he will be watching the Overlooked Film Festival in the audience at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As he wrote:

I will be wearing a gauze bandage around my neck, and my mouth will be seen to droop. I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?

It might attract more than just media attention. It would probably attract scrutiny and claims that he looks terrible. Granted he doesn’t look his best but he did have this to say:

We spend too much time hiding illness.

You can’t argue with that. Even after cancer removing surgery, Ebert still manages to turn the criticism appropriately around.

But I still have dendrophelia films that Ebert won’t: review.