MJ's "manifesto," penned in 1979
When 60 Minutes' Lara Logan and producer John Hamlin toured a secret warehouse where Michael Jackson's personal effects are stored, they found a surreal collection of statues, arcade games, and crystal-encrusted clothing-- but the most fascinating item they found was a simple handwritten note.
Continue Reading »Backstage at Cirque du Soleil show "Immortal"
Pulling back the curtain on Cirque's "Immortal"
60 Minutes' Lara Logan goes backstage at the Michael Jackson-themed Cirque du Soleil show "Immortal," to see costumes, props, and the intricate underworld beneath the stage.
Continue Reading »Behind the scenes at a Taylor Swift concert
"Nashville-meets-Hollywood spectacular" is how one music writer described Taylor Swift's 76-city worldwide 2012 tour to promote her "Speak Now" album. Lesley Stahl, who profiled the singer on 60 Minutes, calls the concert "an extravaganza."
Continue Reading »Taylor Swift: All grown up
Ever wonder where songwriters get their ideas? For Taylor Swift, the inspiration for her heartbreaking song "Never Grow Up" was moving into her own apartment from the security of her parents home, she tells Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes Overtime.
Continue Reading »Becoming human: Shin's new life
"Shin Dong-hyuk isn't just somebody who was sent to a concentration camp," says Anderson Cooper. "This is somebody who was born into a concentration camp. And for the majority of his life up until he was probably 22 or 23, had no idea that there was another kind of way to exist."
Continue Reading »Snake bite! A 60 Minutes shoot in Botswana
This week, 60 Minutes went to Africa to meet world-famous wildlife photographers Beverly and Dereck Joubert. We figured the couple lived an adventurous life in the wilds of Botswana, but we didn't expect what we found on the first day of the shoot.
Married life in a tent. How do they do it?
Could you spend 16 hours a day trapped in a vehicle with your husband? Road trips have left many a relationship in tatters, but for Beverly and Dereck Joubert -- the wildlife filmmakers profiled this week on 60 Minutes -- spending long days together in a truck and nights in a tent is just part of the fun.
Taylor Swift: 7 ways boyfriends make you sad
Most of us want to forget the heartache and struggles of adolescence, but for pop singer Taylor Swift, those memories are the makings of a great song.
Continue Reading »Angelina Jolie: I would love to live a long life
"My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under five percent," actress and director Angelina Jolie wrote Tuesday in an op-ed article in The New York Times. "I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
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