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How important in the end was roger's thumb, because it became one of the most famous thumbs in critical history. he either gave you a thumbs up or gloriously, if you were a real triumph, two thumbs up, or a thumbs down and it could make or break a movie, couldn't it? >> yes. and -- but i think he was much more about the thumbs. that became an iconic thing for both of them, but he won the pulitzer prize. he was the first film critic ever to win the pulitzer prize for film criticism. he was a very smart man and he championed film makers that otherwise maybe wouldn't have had the backing. spike l...

Steven spielberg who said roger loved movies, they were his life. his reviews went deeper than thumbs up or thumbs down. he wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history and in doing so, he helped many movies find their audiences. robert redford said one of the great champions of freedom, of artistic expression and the power of independent films was still unknown and few would support it. president barack obama said michelle and i are saddened to hear about the passing of roger ebert. for a generation of americans roger was the movies. when he didn't like the film, he wa...

Michelle and i are saddened to hear about the passing of roger ebert. for a generation of americans roger was the movies. when he didn't like the film, he was honest. when he did, he was effusive, capturing the unique power of the movies to take us somewhere magical. how important in the end was roger's thumb, because it became one of the most famous thumbs in critical history. he either gave you a thumbs up or gloriously, if you were a real triumph, two thumbs up, or a thumbs down and it could make or break a movie, couldn't it? >> yes. and -- but i think he was much more about the thumbs. th...

All of the stuff we saw in 2008 where folks were questioning obama's religion, whether or not he was a christian, whether or not he was born in hawaii. if you go there, you allow those floodgates to open. that's potentially problematic. >> do you really think that romney thinks criticism of job loss is character assassination. >> he feels that it is character assassination because that is what he devoted his life, too. he is running on it as his record. he's saying look at my record at bain capital and you can judge whether or not that's something that you want to vote for me based on. >> coul...

And $56.5 million producing nickels. we could do a lot with that money, couldn't we? >> harris: how does the u.s. mint handled issues like this. >> a half penny was used in the united states until 18 a 7. -- 1857. >> it's possible to think about alternatives one of which is just getting red of pennies and nickels and having dimes and quarters and dealing with the rounding off problems that would accompany that level of coinage. >> experts say at some point computers may take the place of physical coins and bills. critics argue doing everything electronically would not be fair because consumers...