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This one is getting a lot more press than the average Westboro picket.

Famed film critic Roger Ebert died at the age of 70 today after a years-long battle with cancer. Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago. He had been in poor health over …