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Posted Thursday, April 26th, 2007 - 4 Comments »

In Champaign

Actually, Roger Ebert would prefer it to be called Urbana-Champaign. He grew up in Urbana, so he has a bit of a bias.
After some flight delays that had me arrive here after 8p last night after starting at 7am in L.A., I missed what apparently was a big parade of media here to see Roger come out. By the time I arrived near the end of opener Gattaca, there he was, in the Laz-E Boy, as promised. And smiling. And greeting wave after wave of well wishers, including family members who still live here in Urbana.
Roger

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4 Responses to “In Champaign”

  1. Kambei says:
    April 26, 2007 at 8:29 am

    I always loved that GATTACA is a DNA base coding sequence…

  2. Hopscotch says:
    April 26, 2007 at 10:58 am

    I wonder if that guy swimming is Ethan Hawke’s brother he used to swim with? Beats me.

  3. PetalumaFilms says:
    April 26, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Man, I’m jealous. I wish I was there. I blogged about it on Film Threat:
    http://www.filmthreat.com/blog/?p=665

  4. KamikazeCamelV2.0 says:
    April 26, 2007 at 10:42 pm

    I saw Rog and Chaz on Entertainment Tonight earlier today. Was good to see him up and about even if he was a bit worse for wear.

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