Check Out Roger Ebert’s New Face!
Roger Ebert has a new TV show called "Ebert Presents at the Movies", which is sweet, I love this guy. But after his battle with cancer and throat surgery, it has left the guys face a bit mangled. And lets face it, TV is for the pretty people, but he's got a PROSTHETIC FACE!
I won't make you keep reading, here's Roger Ebert's new prosthetic face:
Pretty sweet right? I will admit that I watched an Oprah special about this guy and he has a great support system. If it wasn't for his caring wife, I don't think the guy would be able to keep going. As for his face, the prosthetic has been an on-going, two-year project:
Using 3-D photos of Ebert and a bust made by a friend of his during art school years earlier, a team including doctors and an anaplastologist came up with a "device [that] would fit over my lower face and neck and, colored to match my skin, would pass muster at a certain distance."
Like I said, this guy has got some great friends and family and the drive to keep on keepin' on. So his face is no longer an issue, but his surgies have also left his voice unusable for TV. Oh wait this is Roger Ebert, he's got that covered too!
He's gotten around the problem thanks to CereProc, a Scottish company that gave him a new digital voice compiled from Ebert's old audio recordings.
Nice, so the man is all set, even though he's cool with the way he looks without the prosthetic:
At the beginning of this process I assumed I would wear the new prosthesis whenever I left the house, so that "nobody would know." But everybody knows. The photograph of me that appeared in Esquire even found its way onto billboards in China. And something else has happened ... I accept the way I look. Lord knows I paid the dues.
Roger Ebert's new show "Ebert Presents At The Movies" premiers tonight on PBS.
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