Gore Vidal's elegance and gloom
To some, Gore Vidal will be remembered as a superlative writer, essayist, playwright and critic, but to others, he will be known as "an intellectual vaudevillian."
That's how Mike Wallace put it back in 1975 after interviewing Vidal for a provocative 60 Minutes profile. The piece is Wallace and Vidal at their best, going head to head on everything from sex to politics to celebrity.
Continue Reading »AC vs Phelps: The 2012 rematch
Four years ago, Anderson Cooper challenged Olympic champion Michael Phelps to a one-lap race. Anyone want to guess how that went? (Imagine competing against a dolphin.)
Continue Reading »Olympic gymnasts: Starving for success?
They are the darlings of any Summer Olympic games: the female gymnasts. Of the dozens of athletes and dozens of competitions, more often than not, these are the ones more people watch and the names more people remember, sometimes for a lifetime.
Continue Reading »A reporter's story: Finding homeless families
"Guess what? It's getting worse."
Those were words that CBS News producer Nicole Young didn't expect to hear about poverty in central Florida. After all, last year Nicole worked with Scott Pelley on a 60 Minutes piece about families in that region who had lost their jobs, lost their homes, and moved into highway motels.
Continue Reading »Take a walk through van Gogh's masterpieces
On "60 Minutes Overtime" this week, we time-travel back to a small town outside Paris in 1890, where a new resident named Vincent van Gogh was painting the town red . . . and green, blue, orange.
Continue Reading »Steve Jobs: Family photo album
College student Reed Jobs decided to study oncology after seeing his father, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, battle cancer. Reed's younger sister Eve is a great horseback rider, and their sister Erin has her father's great sense for design. And the eldest, Lisa, who was estranged from her father when she was young, became very close with him in recent years.
What did Steve Jobs think of his rivals?
"They just don't get it." That's how Steve Jobs described his digital rivals Microsoft and Google in an interview with his biographer Walter Isaacson.
Continue Reading »Winning Olympic Gold at any cost?
The Olympic Games really do have it all: excitement, history, a grand stage. Dozens of countries represented by hundreds of athletes giving their all in the simple quest to win.
Continue Reading »Life after prison, Morton meets grandchild
Who is Michael Morton?
"He was just an ordinary, law-abiding citizen, who got clobbered for no good reason," says 60 Minutes producer Andy Court, who co-produced this week's story about Morton's wrongful murder conviction and 25 years in prison.
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