It wasn’t just a movie and popcorn for film critic Roger Ebert when he attended a screening at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.
According to the NY Daily News, Ebert was attacked by New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick, as the Chicago Sun-Times writer attended “Slumdog Millionaire” a film by Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting”) that’s been receiving Oscar buzz.
A source told the paper that after the lights went down, “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!’”
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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,” the source added
Ebert, 66, is currently battling thyroid and salivary cancer, and can no longer speak.
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