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What did Ebert's friends learn from new CNN documentary?
Film critic and friend of Roger Ebert, Kenneth Turan, says Ebert's impact on film was much larger than just his syndicated show with Gene Siskel.
CNN Film's "Life Itself" airs Sunday January 4th.
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Remembering the king of critics, Roger Ebert
Before there were Facebook likes, he owned the thumbs up. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.
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New Year's resolutions for 2016 hopefuls
It's New Year's, so it's time for resolutions. Eating right. Going to the gym. Quitting smoking. Divesting interests from boards, nonprofit organizations and private sector corporations that could complicate your presidential run.
Okay, that last one isn't really a common resolution, but it was breaking news as the ball dropped Wednesday night - Jeb Bush took that step, getting ready for his 2016 possible candidacy.
CNN's Chris Moody and The Atlantic's Molly Ball discuss resolutions that he and the other would-be candidates need to make.
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Mario Cuomo: Death of a political giant
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo passed away from heart failure Thursday evening at the age of 82.
The son of Italian immigrants, Cuomo rose to the state's highest office serving three terms in Albany from 1983 to 1994.
He first drew national attention at the 1984 democratic convention when his keynote address underscoring the tenets of liberal politics during the Reagan era–brought the capacity crowd in San Francisco to its feet.
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Despite skeptics, FBI insists North Korea behind hack
The White House and U.S. intelligence officials are standing by their assertion that North Korea was behind the cyber attack against Sony–despite evidence presented by outside experts this week that calls that into question, and in some cases implicates a former employee of the studio.
So what makes the FBI so sure North Korea was responsible? CNN's Pamela Brown reports.
