Roger Ebert, famed film critic and cool uncle to the Internet, passed away last April, but his influence is still being felt. Just this past Sunday, The A.V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky joined a couple of Chicago newspapermen for a panel discussion about Ebert's contributions to film criticism, and Ebert's website is still going strong over six months after his death. Now, a group called the Public Art League has commissioned a life-size statue of Mr. Ebert be built and installed outside the Virginia Theater in Champaign, IL, long the site of Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.
The statue will depict Mr. Ebert sitting on a theater chair and giving his famous thumbs-up gesture. It must be said that the scale model kind of, a little bit, just a tad, makes Ebert look like a melting white monster, but if you'd like to donate you can do so here. Or, if you'd rather not take part in bringing this thing into the world, you could just buy one of Ebert's excellent books. Maybe that would be for the best.
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