Roger Ebert Attacked By Lou Lumenick?
Roger Ebert was attacked during a screening of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival by...
New York Post critic Lou Lumenick?!
According to the New York Daily News, soon after the film started "a man in the audience started yelling, 'Don't touch me!' People looked around and shrugged. Ten minutes later, the voice yells again, 'I said don't touch me!'" Then a few minutes later "the guy stands up in the darkness and thwacks the guy behind him with a big festival binder. He hit him so hard everybody could hear it. Everyone freaked out and turned around." For those who don't know, Roger Ebert can no longer speak due to his battle with thyroid and salivary gland cancer. Apparently Ebert couldn't see the screen and tapped Lumenick's shoulder in an effort to get him to move his head a little. Lumenick was said to have been surprised to find out that the person he hit was Ebert. No word on if the two have reconciled or if TIFF might organize an epic boxing match between the two famous film critics for next year's festival. I'm guessing not.