He had announced on his blog Wednesday that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence of cancer.
He was 70.Įbert had been a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.