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By TODAY staff
Roger Ebert, the longtime critic who popularized film criticism with his "thumbs up, thumbs down" reviews in print and on television, has died, the Chicago Sun-Times reported?on Thursday. He was 70.
Ebert revealed this week that he suffered a recurrence of the cancer that he had battled in recent years.
"There is a hole that can't be filled. One of the greats has left us," the Sun-Times tweeted in announcing the news.
Ebert, hired at the Sun-Times in 1967, reviewed movies at the newspaper for 46 years and established himself as one of the nation's most well known film critics.
He was diagnosed in 2002 with papillary thyroid cancer, and in 2003 was operated on for cancer in his salivary gland. Further surgeries to remove more cancerous tissue required removal of a section of jawbone and he continued to suffer complications over the next few years. After?fracturing his hip last December?he underwent further surgery.
Ebert famously teamed with fellow critic Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune for "Siskel and Ebert and The Movies," a 1980s television show in which they reviewed new film releases. The two often squared off over what deserved a "thumbs up" or a "thumbs down" and their stamp of approval or disapproval made its way to movie posters and video boxes. Siskel died in 1999 at age 53.
The author of numerous film screenplays and books, Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1975. He was also the first critic with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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