Romenesko

Chicago Sun-Times
Film critic Roger Ebert, who had a series of cancer surgeries last year, will be watching the Academy Awards on TV next month. "I am eagerly awaiting watching the [awards] like a regular spectator for the first time," he says. "I had hoped to be back in my seat in the balcony alongside my partner, Richard Roeper, but the surgeons tell me they will have to take a staged, multiphased approach to getting me back in shape."