Return of the Thumbs
Roger Ebert has unleashed his famous thumbs again.On Ebert's web site, a listing of current and recent reviews now includes a handy thumbs-up or thumbs-down guide - with two thumbs up for a really good movie and two thumbs down for a bad one. (Among the movies with two thumbs up: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," "Synecdoche, New York," "Happy-Go-Lucky" and "Rachel Getting Married.")
There are no films with a split vote - one up, one down - and it's not clear whether the thumbs represent just Ebert's opinion or also that of his former TV partner Richard Roeper.
Ebert and the estate of his late TV partner Gene Siskel hold the copyright on the "Two Thumbs Up" phrase, and Ebert withdrew the thumbs from his "Ebert & Roeper" TV show earlier this year during a contract dispute with the show's distributor, The Walt Disney Company.
Ebert, who had been off TV for two years following emergency surgery that left him voiceless, and Roeper have since parted company with Disney, and a new show, "At the Movies," is continuing with critics Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
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