Roger Ebert's Amazing TED Talk: "Thank You Leonard Cohen for Saving My Life"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice.html

Roger Ebert: Remaking My Voice

FILMED MAR 2011 • POSTED APR 2011 • TED2011

When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story.

After losing the power to speak, legendary film critic Roger Ebert went on to write about creativity, race, politics and culture -- and film, just as brilliantly as ever.

[Beaverhausen]

1. Marking to watch later

[demmiblue]

2. Ditto. n/t

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. Me too

[gvstn]

3. Here's the Cohen connection...

I was hoping for a unique pearl of wisdom from Leonard Cohen but every little bit helps.

Also, a quaint lit­tle story of how Leonard Cohen saved his life :

“I was using my iPod to play the Leonard Cohen song ‘I’m Your Man’ for my doc­tors and nurses. Suddenly, I had an episode of cat­a­strophic bleed­ing. My carotid artery had rup­tured. Thank God I was still in my hos­pi­tal room and my doc­tors were right there. Chaz told me that if that song hadn’t played for so long, I might have already been in the car, on the way home, and would have died right there and then. So thank you, Leonard Cohen, for sav­ing my life.”

[longship]

4. OMG! That's a great video.

I hope that Roger Ebert's friends and family remember him for things like this. I must confess that this TED talk has left me as a weeping, blubbering whatever. Most likely it is because Roger Ebert has had class right up to the day he passed on.

We've all seen his political posts here at DU. Now, watch this TED talk and you will see the extent to which he really had the heart to which his writing, and his movie reviews sprang.

I really can no longer hold the tears back from his passing. We've lost a real gem.

[hwmnbn]

5. wow!!!

What a remarkable human being.

[malaise]

6. Magnificent

I lost it when Chaz started to cry