Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice
Posted by admin on Wednesday Apr 20, 2011 Under Sexwww.ted.com When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http
April 20th, 2011 at 4:22 am
How can he be so pro-computer, and yet say video games cannot be art? Rather inconsistent, especially given at one point movies would not have been considered capable of being art either.
April 20th, 2011 at 5:04 am
@schbibik Actually MAYBE I WILL.
April 20th, 2011 at 5:48 am
LOVING CHAZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Loving Roger too. Big time. His heart, mind, voice, reviews and spirit will continue to resonate in my own heart and being.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:47 am
@dongmaster2 Nice name. Matches your comment. Now get back to raiding your mom’s underwear drawer. Loosah!
April 20th, 2011 at 7:38 am
He said video games can never be art. He is a deformed abomination and should be smote with fire and cast asunder our steel chariots so his broken body should be flayed by their fury.
April 20th, 2011 at 8:36 am
wow, that’s disgusting lol
April 20th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Who dislikes something like this???
April 20th, 2011 at 8:44 am
truly incredible and inspiring
April 20th, 2011 at 9:19 am
15:33 reminds us “able” body to be mindful to treat other with respect but not in an overbearing manner.
April 20th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Mr and Mrs Ebert should be an inspiration to everyone, abled, differently abled, and disabled. This evolution of communication is not a static thing, and who knows what the future holds? I’m all for any technology that enables human beings to connect and communicate effectively. I’ll never take my voice nor the resilliance of the human spirit for granted again. Thank You for your courage and grace in sharing your journey, Mr. Ebert.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:04 am
I used youtube to learn to speak because it has always been hard and terrifying for me. I agree with this video.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:10 am
@maxgunn555
I suppose so…
April 20th, 2011 at 11:04 am
God I love Roger Ebert so much. He is a legend and a touchstone to cinema.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:24 am
God!
April 20th, 2011 at 11:42 am
So inspiring.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
What a champ.
April 20th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Now he sees the funny side, now he’s always smiling.
April 20th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
He’s a great guy and it’s really sad that this happened to him. I’m glad he’s still doing his thing though, I still like his reviews.
April 20th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
I do also become uncomfortably when I’m separated from my laptop… :/
April 20th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I know this is a terrible thing to say, but he really looks like a supervillain.
April 20th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
@ImAllFact I suppose it is, but at the end of the day, to put up with such hardship, and of course, over the course of so many years, I doubt that this is reflective or along the lines of pulling a “Nicole Smith” or a “Ivanka Trump”.
April 20th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
@covertcovenant Well, Ebert is rich and famous. That is a real pull-factor for women.
April 20th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Lovely stuff.
April 20th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
at first I did think ‘the black and white individual looks a bit odd’…’is this about robotics ?”
as I challenged my ‘self’ into focusing more on listening to what I was hearing an amazing story revealed itself
respect ;-])
April 20th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
@infpdarling upon reading your comment “I would be investing in asbestos if I were you.” I thought ‘clever’ and … sort of an after thought ‘how would that work anyway’ …ahhh ‘humourous’