After leaving the public eye almost entirely four years ago, Roger Ebert, one of film’s most celebrated critics has been featured in an Esquire “Essential Man” article. The magazine sadly chronicles an aging man broken down by cancer living a lonely life who looks more like a melting wax figure than the chubby faced television personality synonymous with the Ebert name.

The read is melancholy as it touches on the difficulty of day to day life for Ebert but also the small things that keep him going. Mr. Ebert patiently waits on a company based out of Ireland that builds voice simulators to contact him with good news so that he might one day be able to tell his wife Chas he loves her again.

The article definitely made me appreciate Ebert a lot more than I did when he was sitting healthy and giving more undeserving thumbs up than the Fonz. The rest of the story is over at Esquire.

- Dr. No