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TIL that in 2005, after Rob Schneider called movie critic Patrick Goldstein unqualified because he’d never won the Pulitzer Prize, famous film critic Roger Ebert told Schneider that, as a Pulitzer winner, HE was qualified to review the film, and that “Your movie sucks.”

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