Ebert breaks hip, but show will go on
CHAMPAIGN – Roger Ebert says his 10th annual film festival, opening Wednesday at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, must go on, even in the event he is unable to attend.
On Friday, his wife, Chaz Ebert, said her husband is recovering at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago from surgery to repair a minor hip injury.
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