Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, died today at the age of 70. Ebert spent more than 45 prolific years punditing for the newspaper, in time growing more famous than many of the films he reviewed. He popularized thumbs-up or thumbs-down judgments on his televised show with the late Gene Siskel, then continued on with Richard Roeper.
He also shared a common interest in amazingly pneumatic knockers with boobie connoisseur Russ Meyer, and penned Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) for the legendary director.
Roger Ebert, mighty wielder of the pen, has left the building. He will be missed.
