Ebert still alive; attends festival

April 24, 2007 D. H. McKee

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Maybe we can start getting some good reviews at the Sun-Times again.
Ebert: We spend too much time hiding illness :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State

My Ninth Annual Overlooked Film Festival opens Wednesday night at the University of Illinois at Urbana, and Chaz and I will be in attendance.
So letâ..s talk turkey. What will I look like? To paraphrase a line from â..Raging Bull,â. I ainâ..t a pretty boy no more. (Not that I ever was. The original appeal of â..Siskel & Ebertâ. was that we didnâ..t look like we belonged on TV.)
What happened was, cancer of the salivary gland spread to my right lower jaw. A segment of the mandible was removed. Two operations to replace the missing segment were unsuccessful, both leading to unanticipated bleeding.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

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Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.