<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://videogum.com/148961/roger-ebert-the-best-finally-gets-his-voice-back/yay/">http://videogum.com/148961/roger-ebert-the-best-finally-gets-his-voice-back/yay/</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(44, 38, 33); font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><div><h2 class="posttitle" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(44, 38, 33); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://videogum.com/148961/roger-ebert-the-best-finally-gets-his-voice-back/yay/" style="color: rgb(158, 138, 44); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; ">Roger Ebert, The Best, Finally Gets His Voice Back</a></h2></div><div><span class="postdate" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); ">Posted on Mar 2nd by <a href="http://videogum.com/author/gabe-2/" title="Posts by Gabe" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Gabe</a></span></div><div class="entry line_top" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><p>Roger Ebert, <a href="http://videogum.com/tag/roger-ebert/" style="color: rgb(105, 30, 136); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">who is the best</a>, will be on <em>Oprah</em> this afternoon, which I am sure we will all leave work to watch if we haven’t called in sick already. But this preview clip in which he demonstrates his new voice for the first time (created by a Scottish company using hours of audio from his TV show and DVD commentaries, which he lost in multiple surgeries that you already know about because you are a human being with intelligence and curiosity who pays attention to the world around him/her, but if for some reason you missed the <em>Esquire</em> profile of him, which is seriously great, <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310" style="color: rgb(105, 30, 136); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">stop missing it</a>), is already too heartbreaking and too <em>heartwarming</em> for words. It is nice to be reminded, especially <a href="http://videogum.com/148751/r-i-p-the-tonight-show/tv/late-night/#comments" style="color: rgb(105, 30, 136); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">after this morning’s bitterness</a>, that the human spirit can always triumph, and that this world, which is too much to bear, can still be lived in with dignity and wonder. Roger Ebert: legend. </p></div></span></div></body></html>