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Roger Ebert begins his 30th year on TV

CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Film critic Roger Ebert begins his 30th year in U.S. television in the syndicated show "Ebert & Roeper."

Ebert, a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago's WLS-TV, made his television debut with the late Gene Siskel on "Siskel & Ebert" 30 years ago on America's only national television program devoted to film criticism.

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This week, Ebert begins his fifth year with fellow film critic Richard Roeper, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and film critic for Chicago's WBBM-TV as co-host.

In the season opener, the critics will review Reese Witherspoon's new film, "Vanity Fair," and take a look a filmmaker Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny," as well as "Anacondas," "Hero" and "Suspect Zero." They will also re-examine "The Passion of the Christ" and "Ella Enchanted" in this week's "Thumbs-Up Video" segment.

Ebert, who is also the author of several books concerning movies, will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005.

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