>> also actor brenton thwaites from "the giver" is with us. here with solutions after this. >> hi, everybody. i'm hoda kotb and i am a hokie. all eyes on the tunnel when your heart and your feet start jumping. hey, everybody. director alfred hitchcock's 115th birthday we're celebrating all that suspenseful in pop culture. kathie lee is at the nbc experience store ready to hand out $100 to anybody who gets the questions right. those who don't get one of her fabulous cds. here to help me out in studio is our good friend, "entertainment weekly" senior writer tim stack. >> hi. >> we asked this question, how long was alfred hitchcock's acceptance when he was awarded an honorary oscar in 1968? two words, five words, ten words, or 26,000 words? what was the answer, tim. >> the answer was b, five words. not the shortest in history. he walked up to the mike and just said, thank you, and then pause and said very much indeed and then just walked away. >> that was it? >> yep. he's a baller, dropped the mike, bye. hitchcock. >> across to kathie lee. >> hi

we have jeff bridges, brenton thwaites and lois lowery. >> i create a character where he will go on a journey, have a hard time and be changed. i hope that the reader will enter the same journey and be changed by the end of it. i think that's true of this book and the movie. >> charlie: the ebola crisis, hamlet and "the giver" when we continue. >> and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: we begin this week with the ebola outbreak. a second leading doctor in sierra leone has succumbed to the disease and official death toll in all countries is now over 1,000 and the manufacturers of zmapp now say they've exhausted existing supplies of the experimental ebola treatment. where does the crisis go from here? laurie garrett has ideas on that. won a pulitzer prize for journalism on the ebola outbreak of 1995. pleased to have you here. welcome. >> thank you. >> charlie: you are writing a piece that will go online soon for foreign policy and

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brenton thwaites plays jonas. and lois lowry. what a great group at one table., one and all. you first read this when it first came out? >> a couple of years after. 18 years ago. i was looking for a project. and i saw this wonderful cover when i was looking through a catalog of kids books because i wanted my kids to see this movie. i came across this cover with a real old guy on the cover and i said, this looks interesting. i started to read it and i loved it. it was a kids book. as an adult, i was just knocked out to find out my kids said, we studied that book in school. there is a lesson plan. i am getting more and more excited. i said this would be a cinch to get off the ground. and then i find it is on the list of banned books as well, which further excited me, which further excited me. but it proved to be quite difficult to the controversy stopped us from getting this through for 18 years. the world that lois created is an amazing one and a lot of the story takes place in jonas' mind. the challenge was, how do we get this to financiers where they can see wh

. >> brenton thwaites and odeya rush. who we're going to be hearing -- yeah.hey really cook. they're really great. >> jimmy: you actually played the giver. >> yes. >> jimmy: and it's almost the guy who knows -- he collects all memories. the town really has no real memories of anything else besides their community. >> yes. >> jimmy: and so, you -- except for one magical man, which is you, who goes -- and it's your job to give the memories to the next generation. >> you're into some deep teasing now. >> jimmy: thank you. okay, all right. [ laughter ] i know! i'm really -- i know, i'm really -- [ talking over each other ] [ cheers and applause ] here's jeff bridges in "the giver." take a look at this. >> it's red. just like her hair. >> yes. it's red, green, blue. many different colors. but our people, they chose to do away with all of them. they created sameness. if we were different, we could be envious, angry, consumed with hatred. we need sameness, don't you think? >> oh, i completely agree. still it's awesome. beautiful. >> jimmy: aww. it's beautiful shot. [