Salamander

This is a tragedy on many levels - I am sad for Mr. Ebert and his family. He's an excellent writer and knows about and loves movies. The travesty in all of this is that we are still stuck with the awful Richard Roeper, an ineffective, a terrible writer, a poor speaker, a quote gusher, and a dullard on camera. He knows very little about movies and is just coasting on his luck in replacing Siskel. It's really disgraceful that Mr. Ebert won't be rejoining the show. At least Michael Phillips is around and he's excellent and puts Roeper to shame minute by minute. I am really sad for the Ebert family and for movie fans in America.