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Critic gave own life lessons; 'GMA' personality fought brave fight against bad movies and ravages of cancer, his friend Roger Ebert writes

Article from: Chicago Sun-Times Article date: June 30, 2007 Author: Roger Ebert

Joel Siegel, the "Good Morning America" film critic, was a brave man, and a hell of a nice guy. Diagnosed with colon cancer in 1997, two weeks before he learned he was about to become a father, he was given a 60 percent chance of living long enough to see his child. But he fought those odds for a decade, and once told me, "I've gone up one side of the bell curve and down the other side, and am now advancing into enemy territory."

Joel died Friday at age 63. Fearing he would not live long enough to be a father for his son Dylan, he wrote the ...

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