RIP Roger Ebert

ROGER EBERT, who became during his career the nation's best-known movie critic, has died after a long struggle with cancer. He was 70. Ebert reviewed films for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV (most memorably with fellow critic Gene Siskel) for 31, but even after losing his lower jaw to cancer in 2006 he remained a prolific, insightful writer--about movies, his illness and even politics. He'll be sorely missed. "No good film is too long," goes a quote from Ebert that appears in his Sun-Times obit. "No bad movie is short enough." (4/4p)