Roger Ebert Going In For More Surgery
Damn Vincent Gallo for cursing cancer on Roger Ebert! Ebert will be going back into surgery on June 16 to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. Back in 2002, the film critic underwent surgery for papillary thyroid cancer. A year later he was back in the operating room for the salivary gland and afterward he went through radiation therapy. Not long before Ebert first showed signs of the cancer, actor Vincent Gallo had coincidentally cursed the disease on Ebert after receiving a bad review from him.
Ebert told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Feder that the cancer, "isn't life threatening," and he'll, "continue to function as a film critic during this time."
We at Cinematical wish him a very quick and healthy recovery.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-02-2006 @ 1:18PM
Cath said...
Vincent Gallo must have cursed a lot of people then, but I haven't heard other reviewers falling ill. It must be having to sit next to Roeper that did it.
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6-02-2006 @ 1:30PM
Christopher Campbell said...
Well, Gallo publicly cursed Ebert. I don't think he did so with any other critic.
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6-02-2006 @ 1:46PM
Cath said...
A curse doesn't have to be public to be effective. In fact, the most powerful ones tend to be silent.
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6-02-2006 @ 1:53PM
Christopher Campbell said...
Still, I don't think Gallo thinks himself powerful, and the whole "effect" here was a coincidence. The actor actually regretted saying what he said after Ebert was actually diagnosed with cancer, though the type of cancer differed from what he had cursed him with.
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6-02-2006 @ 3:23PM
Cath said...
That was my very point. Next time I will skip the irony. Gallo's work has been so universally and justifiably panned, were he so magically inclined, reviewers would have been dropping like flies. That Gallo continues to have any career at all suggests a connection to dark forces of a different and more prosaic kind.
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6-04-2006 @ 3:03PM
Richard von Busack said...
Yes, Gallo is Satan's busboy. He's claimed to have taken the curse back, though prints of his Buffalo '66 are still at large.
I've read that Ebert's cancer is a very slow-growing kind. Apparently what gave it to him was the use of radiation to clear up an ear infection...this happened to him when he was a kid, and they used to use radiation therapy with a lot less discrimination than now.
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