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Life Is Not a Movie

Success

In 2011, at 69 years old and in curious health, Ebert was being heard, a lot, and it was neither a coincidence nor an act of God. Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert, “the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism,” according to The Pulitzer Prizes , came through with what was considered flying colors.

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