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Are you as tired of this perfectly timed Kevin Smith/Southwest kerfuffle as we are? Cleanse your palate instead by reading Esquire's exquisite new profile of Roger Ebert, where the legendary, ailing film critic (whose jaw was removed from cancer-caused complications) lets writer Chris Jones in on all matters medical and emotional: "There is no need to pity me, he writes on a scrap of paper one afternoon after someone parting looks at him a little sadly. Look how happy I am." [Esquire]