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"&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll see you at the movies.&amp;quot; Those were the last written words of the sharp-witted, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who posted a final essay on his blog Tuesday, entitled &amp;quot;Leave of Presence.&amp;quot; After years of battling cancer of the thyroid and salivary gland, Ebert explained in the essay his plans to scale back his number of film reviews, due to starting radiation therapy for cancer that was found after he fractured his hip last year. By this time, Ebert had already lost much of his voice, jaw and eating ability to his failing health. Still, in the ever-dauntless Roger Ebert fashion, he added, &amp;quot;I am not going away\u2026 What&amp;#039;s more, I&amp;#039;ll be able at last to do what I&amp;#039;ve always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review.&amp;quot;  Unfortunately, however, it brought great sadness to Ebert&amp;#039;s loving family and many devoted readers when he lost his decade-long fight with cancer Thursday. Ebert had just celebrated his 46th anniversary reviewing movies for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is considered without question to be the nation&amp;#039;s most renowned film critic. He reviewed up to 306 movies a year before becoming ill, using the Internet as his mouthpiece. His site, RogerEbert.com has millions of fans, and he has over 841,000 followers on Twitter. Ebert gained overwhelming acclaim outside the web as well. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, reviews published in hundreds of newspapers worldwide, and multiple Emmy nominations for his television review program At the Movies (originally Siskel and Ebert). Ebert&amp;#039;s TV partner-in-criticism, Gene Siskel, also died too soon of brain cancer in 1999. Ebert&amp;#039;s wife of 20 years, Chaz, recalled his final moments in a statement released Thursday. &amp;quot;We were getting ready to go home today for hospice care, when he looked at us, smiled and passed away,&amp;quot; she said. She added that her husband, whom she calls her &amp;quot;friend, confidante and partner,&amp;quot; fought a &amp;quot;courageous fight.&amp;quot; Ebert is survived by his two stepchildren and four grandkids. Leave well-wishes for Roger Ebert&amp;#039;s family below. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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