Three score and ten is the life expectancy the bible allots us, and that is the age at which the film critic Roger Ebert died on April 4. He was, as the lengthy obituaries declared, the most famous movie critic of our era, and, in an epoch in which fame is measured in television time, so he was. In this, no one could compete with him."A Critic for the Common Man," read the headline of the New York Timesobit by Dougla…
SOURCE: John Simon at 11:30AM on April 26, 2013