Roger Ebert dead at 70

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to moviegoers, has died. He was 70.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-roger-ebert-20130405,0,7121655.stor