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Offline bijou

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Fellow Critic Hits Roger Ebert During Film Festival
« on: September 12, 2008, 12:23:46 PM »
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CHICAGO —  Film critic Roger Ebert on Thursday confirmed that a fellow critic yelled at him and whacked him on the knee with a program during a movie screening at the Toronto Film Festival last weekend, but said incident was "blown out of proportion."

"It has been blown out of proportion. It is of little interest," Ebert said in a column posted Thursday on the Web site of the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been a critic since 1967.

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Re: Fellow Critic Hits Roger Ebert During Film Festival
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 12:43:31 PM »
He's lucky he didn't scratch his eyes out.

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Re: Fellow Critic Hits Roger Ebert During Film Festival
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2008, 12:49:56 PM »
 :gay: :catfight:
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