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Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.
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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
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The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.
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What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
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All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
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