Ebertfest's star will be absent tonight
By Melissa Merli
Wednesday April 23, 2008
Heather Coit
The marquee of the Virginia Theatre shows the dates of this week's Ebertfest.
CHAMPAIGN – The 10th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival opens this evening at the Virginia Theatre without the main man.
In his blog today, the Chicago Sun-Times movie reviewer and Urbana native wrote: "After consulting with my doctors, I have decided it may not be prudent to try to make the journey today with a fractured hip."
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