It looks like Roger Ebert is well enough to resume writing at the Chicago Sun-Times. We get the glorious news from the legendary caves of yahoo:
Roger Ebert will resume writing reviews later this month, but will not rejoin his syndicated TV show because he’s still unable to speak. In a letter published in Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and co-host of TV’s “Ebert & Roeper” said surgery in January ended in complications, and his ability to speak was not restored. He said the return of speech would require another surgery.
Ebert, 65, said he’s looking forward to his annual film festival starting April 23. “I will resume writing movie reviews shortly thereafter,” he said. He had undergone cancer surgery three times before the 2006 operation — once in 2002 to remove a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland and twice on his salivary gland the following year.
I enjoy Mr. Ebert’s reviews, and am glad he is back in the saddle. I can only imagine how hard it would be to have your voice taken away from you; with luck he will have this affliction remedied shortly as well. Fans of the Television show will have to settle for his written reviews for the time being; and that’s not a bad thing at all. Ebert writes fantastic print reviews that are a pleasure to read, and if you haven’t checked them out – you should certainly do so.
We are glad to hear of Ebert’s positive progress and anxiously await the day when his thumb of power returns to TV.
