Die-hard Ebertfest fans not deterred by obstacles for tickets
By Paul Wood
Saturday April 5, 2008
Heather Coit
Friends Jeff Smith, far right, of Champaign, and Tony Ferguson, of Urbana, wait in line to buy tickets to Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign on Friday. The friends were the second pair to show up for tickets, following friends Jeanette Lewin and Jo Ellen Brown, of Champaign, who showed up first at 7:10 a.m.
CHAMPAIGN – It's 7:10 a.m., it's dark, 39 degrees out – isn't this supposed to be spring? – and two friends are the first in line for individual tickets at Roger Ebert's Film Festival.
Jo Ellen Brown and Jeannette Lewin, Champaign friends for 21 years, have barely slept. Lewin had just gotten back Thursday night from Florida, her tan glowing in the morning chill as evidence.
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