Archive for April 4th, 2013
FAMOUS FILM CRITIC HAS DIED AT 70
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013)
(AP) – Roger Ebert, the most famous and popular film reviewer of his time
who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and,
on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb,
died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, his office said. Only
a day earlier, he announced on his blog that he was undergoing radiation
treatment after a recurrence of cancer. Ebert had been a film critic for the
Chicago Sun-Times since 1967.
TODAY IN HISTORY ~
BUDDY HOLLY’S FIRST POSTHUMOUS HIT
Buddy Holly‘s "It Doesn’t Matter Anymore" hit #13 on the Billboard Hot
100 on April 4,1959, It was his first posthumous hit following his tragic
death in a plane crash on February 3. The single was a double- sided
hit, backed with “Raining in My Heart”.
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