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onager

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5. If Ebert could see those 'toons...

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 11, 2013, 07:42 PM

Apr 2013

I bet they'd get a review similar to Ebert's smackdown of Vincent Gallo's movie "The Brown Bunny:"

"I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than 'The Brown Bunny.'"

Or Ebert's treatment of Rob Schneider and his epic cinematic achievement "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."

Patrick Goldstein gutted that turkey in the L.A. TIMES. Schneider wrote Goldstein a furious letter/press release, basically saying Goldstein was a nobody and hadn't even won a Pulitzer Prize or anything. Ergo, Goldstein was "unqualified" to review a masterpiece like "Deuce Bigblow."

Ebert wrote to Schneider: "As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."

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Roger Ebert Would Have Given His Obit Cartoons Two Thumbs Down [View all] pokerfan Apr 2013 OP

I read similar comments on a couple sites about his death. progressoid Apr 2013 #1

I must remember pokerfan Apr 2013 #2

If that's how they remember him Lordquinton Apr 2013 #3

Cartoonists are lazy pokerfan Apr 2013 #4

If Ebert could see those 'toons... onager Apr 2013 #5