Roger Ebert tells it like it is

Via The 19th Floor, movie critic Roger Ebert:

I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc.
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I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?

I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks. I still have my brain and my typing fingers.

Read the whole thing at I ain’t a pretty boy no more.