At a time when critics mostly hailed from the coasts , he was a Midwesterner people related to . It is said that editing is the soul of the cinema ; in the case of 'The Brown Bunny , ' it is its salvation , '' he wrote . He had a firm , plain , brooking-no-claptrap voice and said exactly what he thought . Comment: Ebert , 70 , lost his battle with cancer Thursday .
At a time when critics mostly hailed from the coasts , he was a Midwesterner people related to . He had a firm , plain , brooking-no-claptrap voice and said exactly what he thought . Comment: Ebert , 70 , lost his battle with cancer Thursday .