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Ebert Gets Final Thumbs Up

Scott Anderson, head of the Roger Ebert Sculpture fundraising campaign, gives a thumbs up next to a scale model of a sculpture of famed film critic Roger Ebert, outside the Virginia Theatre on Tuesday in Champaign, Ill., where he announced plans to raise money for a statue of Ebert to be placed in front of a theater in central Illinois that hosted his namesake film festival. Ebert died in April in Chicago after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/The News-Gazette, John Dixon)

Question: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much are you influenced by film critics re: your movie choices (for example, will you see a movie that's roundly panned)?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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