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This April 22, 2013 photo provided by Thompson-McClellan shows a bronze statue of Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert giving his famous 'thumbs up" sign in Champaign, Ill. The statue will be unveiled Thursday, April 24, 2014, outside the Virginia Theatre in Champaign where Ebert held his annual film festival. Ebert died in April 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Thomspon.McClellan)

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FILE - In this April 25, 2007 file photo, film critic Roger Ebert holds the hand of his wife, Chaz, as he enters the Virginia Theatre for his annual film festival in Champaign, Ill. A bronze statue showing Ebert giving his famous "thumbs up" sign is to be unveiled Thursday, April 24, 2014, during Ebertfest in front of the theater. Ebert died in April 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

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Chaz Ebert sits in her late husband Roger's renowned recliner during the showing of "Life Itself" a documentary of Roger Ebert's life, that opened the 16th Annual Roger Ebert Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill., on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/The News-Gazette, Robin Scholz) MANDATORY CREDIT (REV-SHARE)

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Chaz Ebert signals to her late husband Roger prior to the showing of "Life Itself" a documentary of film critic Roger Ebert's life, that opened the 16th Annual Roger Ebert Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Ill on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/The News-Gazette, Robin Scholz) MANDATORY CREDIT

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FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, film critic Roger Ebert works in his office at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. When "Life Itself" debuts Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, at the Sundance Film Festival it will be the first time Ebert's wife, Chaz, will see the full documentary about her late husband's life. "Life Itself" includes footage that director Steve James gathered over the final four months before the famed film critic died last April after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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FILE - In this May 3, 2007 file photo, film critic Roger Ebert, center, his wife Chaz, left, and their granddaughter Raven Evans, arrive for the Chicago premiere of the the Broadway hit "The Color Purple." When "Life Itself" debuts Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, at the Sundance Film Festival it will be the first time Ebert's wife, Chaz, will see the full documentary about her late husband's life. "Life Itself" includes footage that director Steve James gathered over the final four months before the famed film critic died last April after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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** FILE ** Chaz Ebert (center), widow of film critic Roger Ebert, leaves Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago after his funeral on Monday, April 8, 2013. Mr. Ebert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning movie reviewer, died Thursday at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

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**FILE** Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert attends the 57th International Film Festival in Cannes in May 17, 2004. (Associated Press)