Roger Ebert says he will have surgery
CHICAGO (AP) -January 24, 2008 According to a statement in the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert was to
have surgery Thursday in Houston to address complications from
previous operations.
Ebert, 65, has been a film critic at the newspaper for more than
40 years.
He has undergone a series of operations, including the removal
of a growth on his salivary gland and a tracheostomy, a procedure
that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, that left
him unable to speak.
Though he has been unable to appear on "At the Movies with
Ebert & Roeper" for more than a year, with guest hosts filling in,
Ebert has been writing reviews regularly.
He said he's written several advance reviews and other columns
to appear while he recuperates.
