We Have a Front-Runner for the Coveted “Worst Person at This Year’s TIFF” Award

By David Topping

At a Saturday press screening of Slumdog Millionaire, New York Post critic Lou Lumenick hit Roger Ebert over the head with a big fat TIFF binder, according to the Daily News. Ebert—who can’t speak because of thyroid and salivary gland cancer—was sitting behind Lumenick and couldn’t see the screen, and he was tapping him on the shoulder to try to get him to move. Lumenick didn’t realize it was Ebert he had hit until after the binder hit home, but he apparently offered no apology afterwards anyway. Ebert “walked out of the screening with two thumbs up—and handed [director Danny] Boyle a note saying he’s bound to get an Oscar nod.” Ebert wins. [via Gawker]