“Film critic Roger Ebert writing a memoir”

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Film critic Roger Ebert writing a memoir Posted: 13 Jun 2010 08:10 AM PDT Roger Ebert's next book won't just be about movies. The film critic and profilic Twitter user is writing a memoir. It will cover everything from his battle with thyroid cancer to his friendship with Gene Siskel, his fellow critic and "Siskel and Ebert at the Movies" co-host who died in 1999. Grand Central Publishing executive editor Mitch Hoffman said Friday that the currently untitled book has a tentative release date of fall 2011. Ebert's previous works include "Roger Ebert's Book of Film" and "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie." Still communicating In an interview with Esquire magazine, Ebert used pen and paper and text-to-speech computer software to communicate. He's developed a kind of rudimentary sign language, and he sometimes draws letters with his finger on the palm of his hand. In March, Ebert tried out a new voice on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," with help from a Scottish company called CereProc that captured the sound of Ebert's voice from DVD movie commentary tracks. The film critic can type what he wants to say and listeners hear his voice. Ebert lost his ability to speak nearly four years ago, when he underwent a tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, after surgery for cancer in his jaw. Ebert had surgery to remove his cancerous thyroid in 2002. He had surgery on his salivary glands in 2003 and on his jaw in 2006. Complications in 2006 led to more surgery and months of recuperation.

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