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UP NEXT: Aug. 1


COVER STORY: Just Married
It's the biggest event never seen: The wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Mark Mezvinsky is being held under a shroud of absolute secrecy. But some details have emerged. Correspondent Tracy Smith reports on what we know of the event, and also of the history of First Children who have tied the knot as the nation, and the world, watched.

ALMANAC: First Mass-Produced Jeep

MUSIC: Doo-Wop
Sold-out crowds of all ages are turning out to hear music from the first era of rock 'n' roll music, now known as "doo-wop." And while some of the singers have gray in their hair and Medicare cards in their pockets, the music they perform (some for more than half a century) helped shape and reflect the generation of Americans born during World War II.

Correspondent Jeff Greenfield explores why this music, once seen as a passing fad, is still attracting crowds and cheers half a century on.

Originally broadcast February 8, 2009

For more info:
Little Anthony and the Imperials
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009 Induction information
The Ultimate Doo Wop Show

ART: Otto Dix
In 1926 an art critic called him "a natural disaster, an outrage, an explosion of a volcano." More than 80 years later the work of Otto Dix, the German portrait painter and artist of human agony, is still just as powerful, just as unsettling to visitors at New York's Neue Galerie. This Sunday Morning, "60 Minutes" contributor Morley Safer takes a closer look at the haunting faces of Otto Dix.

Otto Dix will be on view at the Neue Galerie through August 30, and then will travel to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

For more info:
Neue Galerie New York
Museum for German and Austrian Art
1048 Fifth Avenue (at 86th Street)
New York, NY 10028
[phone]

MILEPOST/PASSAGE: TBD

INTERVIEW: Mr. President
President Barack Obama has been in office for 18 months. We know from public opinion polls that many Americans are not happy with the job that he's doing. But what about the President himself? Is he satisfied with what he's accomplished? Does he have any regrets? What has he learned from his on-the-job training? And how certain is he that our country is on the right track?

Correspondent Harry Smith sits down with the Commander-in-Chief for an exclusive one-on-one interview.

THE FAST DRAW: Heat Wave
Josh Landis and Mitch Butler turn up the heat.

SUNDAY PROFILE: Hugh Hefner

OPINION: Ben Stein

ENDER: It's Hot
Steve Hartman reports.

NATURE: Penguins of Antarctica

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RECAP: July 25

COVER STORY: Our Future Is Already in the Hands of Robots
Robots can be found in every area of society, from high school sports to the assembly line. But what are robots? And how are they changing our lives…?

To find out, Daniel Sieberg asks that those very questions to Dean Kamen, founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition. He also travels to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to see the latest in consumer robotics; observes military robotics testing near White Sands, N.M.; and even sits in on a robotic-assisted surgery.

What he finds is that as robots march further into every aspect of our lives, more and more Americans are growing comfortable with them. In fact, some are literally putting their lives in the hands of a robot, from the battlefield to the operating room.

For more info:
usfirst.org
roboticonology.com
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Wire for War
irobot.com
anybots.com
beatbots.com
cesweb.org

ALMANAC: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
July 25th, 1946 . . . 64 years ago today . . . the day Atlantic City nighclub patrons got two for one, with the debut of the young comedy team of Martin and Lewis.

DESTINATION: Shanghai
A Chinese newspaper reported this past week that the posh London department store Harrods is in talks to open a branch in Shanghai. What makes China's business center so attractive? Terry McCarthy will Shanghai us ... to Shanghai.

To watch the video click here.

POP CULTURE: Women Motorcyclists
What is the fastest growing segment of the motorcycling population? Turns out it's women, as Rita Braver discovered when she went to the Daytona Bike Week. She met Karen Davidson, the great-granddaughter of one of the Harley-Davidson co-founders. Karen introduced our fearless correspondent to the joys of riding a big bike. Braver also met the fastest woman in Daytona, Melissa Paris, who competed against the guys in the Daytona 200 motorcycle race.

Of course, women have been riding motorcycles since the earliest years of biking, as author Cristine Sommer Simmons explains. While doing her research, Simmons met Gloria Struck, who this year at age 84 braved the winter snows of New Jersey to ride over a thousand miles to Daytona Beach, Fla.

These days, bikes are getting more comfortable for women, as people like Kathy Tolleson design and build bikes specifically for shorter women with less upper body strength. As Tolleson says, nothing beats thundering down the road with your girlfriends.

Originally broadcast March 28, 2010

To watch the video click here.

For more info:
"The American Motorcycle Girls 1900-1950" (Cristine Sommer Simmons' blog)
Harley-Davidson: Women Riders
Kathy Tolleson
melissaparis.com
The Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run (September 10-26, 2010)
BMW of Manhattan Motorcycles

THE MOVIES: Summer Blockbusters: Jolie Adds Spice to "Salt"
Critic David Edelstein prefers his hot summer action films with a dose of … Salt!

ART: Willard Wigan's Micro Art
Willard Wigan is a micro-artist whose tiny sculptures can only be seen through a microscope, and typically rest on the head of a pin or in the eye of a needle.

Originally broadcast March 21, 2010

Check out our gallery of Wigan's fascinating micro-art.

For more info:
Willard Wigan's Web Site
Wigan’s work is on view at the
Atlanta Art Gallery
3005 Peachtree Road, NE, Suite B
Atlanta, GA 30305
[phone]
Size DOES Matter - Flag Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001-5501
[phone]

MILEPOSTS: Tweets, E-books, and Daniel Schorr

SUNDAY PROFILE: Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton blew into town when he was a teenager, and went on to become Mr. Las Vegas, filling rooms here for 50 years. Correspondent Richard Schlesinger gets Newton’s thoughts on "Danke Schoen," the song he says he’s sung 100,000 times (Hint: He didn’t much like it at first); why the members of the Rat Pack made him one of their favorites; and why he threatened to kick Johnny Carson's posterior.

Originally broadcast March 14, 2010

For more info:
waynenewton.com
John Katsilometes, Las Vegas Sun

OPINION: Nancy Giles on Sherrod Case: Just the Facts, Ma'am
Our commentator says racism could be eliminated if everyone listened more in pursuit of the truth, just like Joe Friday from "Dragnet."

ENDER: Celebrities in Their Own Words, Others' Voices
From Benjamin Franklin to Gandhi, you can learn a lot about the course of human events by studying the autobiographies of the great thinkers. But there's a certain kind of wisdom which can only be found in a certain kind of autobiography: The celebrity autobiography.

That's the title of a show at a New York theater: "Celebrity Autobiography." There you'll find comedians and actors reading verbatim from celebrities' autobiographies - everything from how Joan Lunden lays out her clothes for work, to how Burt Reynolds met Loni Anderson, to the horror Zsa Zsa Gabor felt at serving time in jail.

Mo Rocca takes us onstage, and shows us what it's like to be part of the show. But first he must decide whose immortal words he should read. His choice? Vanna White or Mr. T.

Originally broadcast May 16, 2010

For more info:
"Celebrity Autobiography"

NATURE: Wild Burros
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the wild burros in the Black Mountains of western Arizona ...

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RECAP: July 18

COVER STORY Obesity: A Weighty Issue
America is supersized. Collectively, we're 4.5 billion pounds too heavy, and our health care system is straining from the weight of it all.

Correspondent Seth Doane examines how we got so fat, and what it's doing to our health, our economy, and our children, who face the prospect of a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of this national health crisis.

Doane talks with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius about administration efforts to fight obesity; with a former Surgeon General who first sounded the alarm of an obesity epidemic nearly a decade ago; and with a restaurant dietitian trying to put a healthy spin on fast food.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

For more info:
Healthy Weight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Trust for America's Health

ART: A Body of Work: Artistic Ideals of Beauty
Plus-size, full figured, even enormous - those are the women often considered the most beautiful by artists throughout history. Martha Teichner is our guide to the human body as seen through the eyes of artists.

View our gallery of Body Art.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

For more info:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louvre Museum
Prado Museum
National Academy Museum
Musee Conde
"Looking Around" (Richard Lacayo blog)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Artists Rights Society

BY THE NUMBERS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The Axis of Food Evil: Fat, Sugar and Salt
According to Dr. David Kessler - former head of the FDA, famous for his crusade against Big Tobacco - the food industry has perfected the science of making foods we are simply unable to resist. By loading dishes with salt, sugar and fat, restaurants and fast-food joints have us at their mercy, triggering a frenzy of activity in our brains that is the result of eons of evolution.

But is it fair to demonize businesses for providing customers with what they want - inexpensive and plentiful meals as a reward for our hectic lives?

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

For more info:
"The End of Overeating" by Dr. David Kessler (Rodale Books)
National Restaurant Association

Our Man in Paris: A Parisian Food Fight
What could be more French than a McDonald's at the Louvre?

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

GENES: At Duke, Doctors Teach Obesity Ownership
The frontline battle against obesity is taking place in doctors' offices - not in the gym. Doctors claim that new medications are on the way to help people in the deadly battle against obesity. We also travel to the Duke Diet and Fitness Center - the gold standard in treating obesity - to examine how they use the latest advances in medicine, psychology, nutrition and fitness to deal with an epidemic of obesity in this country. Rita Braver reports.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

For more info:
Healthy Weight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Trust for America's Health

THE FAST DRAW: Trimming the Fat

To watch the video click here.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

ON A DIET: The REAL Skinny
For all his life, Mo Rocca has been the skinniest person he knew. And he's still pretty skinny, right? Well, that depends. Mo turned 40 this year . . . and that fat which never, ever stuck to his bones is beginning to cling.

Rocca pays a visit to nutritionist Kathy Isoldi at the Weill/Cornell Medical College in New York to get the skinny on his fat, and some lessons in healthy eating.

First Broadcast November 29, 2009.

To watch the video click here.

SUNDAY PROFILE: In Slim Role, Bertinelli Beats Back Bulge
She dropped 40 pounds, and, for one famous ad campaign, most of her clothing. But actress-author Valerie Bertinelli isn't done yet. Tracy Smith reports.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

For more info:
"Losing It - and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time" by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press)

FITNESS: Welcome to Thin City: Colorado's Low Rate of Obesity
Dean Reynolds reports.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

To watch the video click here.

SPORT: The Skinny on Sumo
Japan's sumo wrestlers consume an average of 3,500 calories a day - close to twice the recommended intake for adults. Lucy Craft reports.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

To watch the video click here.

FASHION: Plus-Size Models Take Charge
Michelle Miller investigates how the ultra-thin are falling out of fashion.

First broadcast November 8, 2009.

BILL GEIST: Deep-Frying Is Where the Magic Happens
The State Fair of Texas, where the classic battered and fried "Corny Dog" was invented in 1942, remains the frontier of fried food. Here, vendors compete to see who can create the most egregious violation of dietary law, and artery-clogging concoctions like fried cookie dough, fried peaches and cream, and fried Coke were tasted for the first time.

This year, Abel Gonzales Jr. unveiled his masterpiece: Fried Butter! It quickly became the star of the Fair

Bill Geist eats his way through the Capital of Deep Fried Food and visits Gonzales, the mad scientist of frying, in his laboratory (his mother's kitchen), where he's already at work on his next creation.

First broadcast October 25, 2009.

For more info:
State Fair of Texas

NATURE: Pot Bellied Pigs
This morning's nature piece takes you to the Rooterville Sanctuary in Gainsville, Florida, where rescued pot bellied pigs roam free.

To watch the video click here.

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RECAP: July 11

COVER STORY: Stargazing: A Nonstop World of Celeb News
Call it the new reality of Hollywood: if you're a VIP, you'll likely wind up on TMZ, a celebrity website known for beating other news organizations to the punch on big celeb stories, like the death of Michael Jackson. But even though the website publishes photos of stars in embarrassing situations, they say they're not out to defame ... only to entertain.

Originally broadcast January 31, 2010

For more info:
tmz.com
To listen to an excerpt of Bethenny Frankel's book, "Skinnygirl Rules," click here.

THE ALMANAC: Tab Hunter
It was 71 years ago today - July 11, 1939 - that Tab Hunter was born.

ART: Push Pins and No Paint
From office obscurity to art world admiration: Serena Altschul shows us how push-pins are being used to create some very unusual art.

Originally broadcast November 29, 2009

For more info:
The Art of Eric Daigh
The Art of Devorah Sperber
Moore Push-Pin Company

HEADLINERS: Merle Haggard
"Mama Tried" was just one of the tunes that made Merle Haggard one of country music's greatest for 40 years and counting. He's still out there performing, and still more than willing to share what's on his mind . . . . as John Blackstone will now demonstrate.

BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Spy vs. Spy
The spy swap with Russia dominated the news for much of the past week . . . leaving questions -- and even a few jokes in its wake. Martha Teichner reports.

BY THE NUMBERS: Good News / Bad News
A new Pew Research Center poll says 61 percent of Americans are optimistic about our country's future over the next 40 years. Now, the Bad News: Fifty-three percent of us think America will be LESS important in the world of 2050.

BOOKS: "To Kill a Mockingbird" Turns 50
Katie Couric takes a look at Harper Lee's beloved classic.

For more info:
marymurphy.net

SUNDAY PROFILE: Joy Behar: Left Front Center
For thirteen years, television viewers have watched Joy Behar and her co-hosts of "The View" discuss everything from politics to fashion to infidelity. And now, Behar has an evening gig - a show all her own on the cable news channel HLN.

Russ Mitchell visits with Behar at home, at work. and in her native Brooklyn.

Originally broadcast March 28, 2010

For more info:
"The View" (ABC)
"The Joy Behar Show" (CNN)

OPINION: Faith Salie: Multitasking Good, Bad At Same Time
Think you can do it all . . . all at once? All at once, maybe, says contributor Faith Salie, but not all the time.

ENDER: Voiceovers
Nancy Giles reports.

Originally broadcast April 11, 2010

NATURE: Crabs!
We leave you this Sunday Morning on Delaware's Slaughter Beach . . . a prime mating ground for horseshoe crabs ...

To watch the video click here.

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RECAP: July 4

COVER STORY: U.S. Diplomacy: Hitting the Right Notes
Can music do what diplomacy alone can't? Every year, the U.S. State Department sends music groups to countries all over the world in an effort to generate goodwill . . . and the program seems to work.

Correspondent Tracy Smith reports on the Rhythm Road program, with guidance from jazz greats Dave Brubeck and Wynton Marsalis, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and hip hop artists Chen Lo and the Liberation Family.

For more info:
The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad (U.S. State Dept.)
davebrubeck.com
legacyrecordings.com
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Rhythm Road at Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Sanibel Inn, Sanibel Island, Fla.

ALMANAC: Fourth of July

CUTTING EDGE: The Cutting Edge
Jerry Bowen introduces viewers to knife maker Bob Kramer, one of only 114 Master Bladesmiths in the world, as certified by the American Bladesmith Society. Kramer is so good his handmade knives sell for $300 . . . an inch!

Originally aired November 22, 2009.

To watch the video click here.

For more info:
kramerknives.com
American Bladesmith Society
Kramer/Shun Knives
williams-sonoma.com

MUSIC: The Boston Pops Let Freedom Ring
For thousands of people in and around Boston, and approximately seven million television viewers across the U.S.A., there’s no more rousing way to celebrate the anniversary of our country's birth than with the Boston Pops.

The orchestra is celebrating its own anniversary: 125 years of performing music to adoring fans who do not think they like orchestra music. For music lovers who prefer rock 'n' roll to Bach 'n' Brahms, who can pass on string quartets but revel when hearing superstars like James Taylor, the Pops is the biggest and best band around.

The last three conductors are legendary. Arthur Fielder held the baton for an astonishing fifty years and through his musical genius, personality and recordings took the Pops' popularity from Boston to the world. Then came John Williams who before taking the Pops' helm had composed many of the most famous films scores in Hollywood history, including "Jaws,' "Star Wars" and "Superman." Now the symphony is led by Kevin Lockhart, who has brought the latest hits artists to the present Pops stage.

Every year the Boston Pops celebrates July 4th, and this morning Charles Osgood celebrates the Pops.

To watch the video click here.

For more info:
The Boston Pops
The Boston Symphony
Susan Dangel, film producer
keithlockhart.com
johnwilliams.org
"The Beatles Rock Band" Video Game
WGBH-TV
"Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular 2010" (CBS)

AMERICA: Restoring a Rust Belt Town
Today the citizens of a once-prosperous Pennsylvania town are fighting to create a new birth of prosperity, to reverse the effects of a long economic decline. Correspondent Jeff Glor profiles the decaying Rust Belt steel town of Braddock, and Mayor John Fetterman - a man trying to bring it back from the rubble.

For more info:
Braddock - 15104
Braddock Redux
Braddock Films
Buhl Foundation
Tranzformazium
Braddock Carnegie Library
"Gold in Braddock" Art Show
Fossil Free Fuel

ART: Lucas and Spielberg on Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell was the most popular illustrator of his day . . . a quintessentially American artist who captured life's telling moments with a storyteller's eye and an attention to detail that still resonates.

Two of today's quintessential American storytellers, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, found inspiration as boys in Rockwell's images. They have been collecting Rockwell's artwork for years.

This weekend, many of the famed illustrator's works in the Spielberg and Lucas collections go on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and correspondent Rita Braver takes us on a tour of Rockwell's world . . . with Spielberg and Lucas as guides.

For a gallery of Rockwell works from the collections of Lucas and Spielberg, and an extended interview, click here.

For more info:
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass.
"Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg" - Smithsonian American Art Museum
"The Unknown Rockwell: A Portrait of Two American Families" by Nan O’Brien and Rockwell neighbor and model Bud Edgerton (Battenkill River Press)
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Mass.

BY THE NUMBERS: FIREWORKS!
American Independence Day has been celebrated with "bonfires and illuminations" on all seven continents, including Antarctica, where in perhaps the most unlikely celebration of all Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition reportedly set off fireworks on July 4, 1934 in the face of a storm with temperatures reaching 33 degrees below zero.

To watch the video click here.

SUNDAY PROFILE: Television's King Lear
In his 86 years, Norman Lear has worn many hats: music and movie producer, political activist, family man, and the creator of some of the funniest and most provocative programs in the history of television. Lear changed the TV landscape with "All in the Family" in 1971, and followed it with hits like "Maude," "Sanford & Son," "The Jeffersons," "One Day at a Time," "Good Times," and the soap opera spoof "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." Then he started the liberal activist group People for the American Way in the early 1980s, produced movies, bought a record company, started Declare Yourself (which registered 4 million new voters), and is now behind the music of "Playing for Change" and the civic activism program Born Again American.

In this Sunday Profile, correspondent Bill Whitaker talks with Lear about his remarkable and diverse career, and about what's next for a man who insists on making every day matter.

First broadcast June 7, 2009.

For more info:
normanlear.com
declareyourself.com
playingforchange.com
bornagainamerican.org

OPINION: Ben Stein: July 4 About Freedom and Dignity
"In a miraculous process, through wars and protests and lawsuits and demonstrations, this American nation now truly is run by the consent of all of the governed, of all races, creeds, sexes, and economic stations."

BILL GEIST: The Joey Chestnut Story
Having a backyard barbecue this holiday weekend? Here's a tip: Don't invite Joey Chestnut. He'll eat everything!

Last Fourth of July Joey ate 68 hot dogs in ten minutes at the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition. He's the top-ranked competitive eater in the world, and this Sunday Morning Bill Geist meets the champion as he prepares to defend his title and finds out how he plans to devour the competition.

To watch the video click here.

For more info:
Major League Eating (International Federation of Competitive Eating)

NATURE: Yosemite Valley in California

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RECAP: June 27 - The Love Issue
Portions of this episode first aired on February 14, 2010.

COVER STORY: The Chemistry of Love
If you're one of those people who thinks that lifelong romance is an eternal mystery, take heart: scientists now have a better understanding of exactly what happens when we fall for someone, and how the most torrid affairs of the heart are sometimes little more than functions of the brain. Tracy Smith reports.

For more info:
"For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage" by Tara Parker-Pope

STATE OF THE UNION: The First Couples
If you've ever wondered what happens to a marriage when the President and First Lady move into the White House, correspondent Martha Teichner takes you behind the scenes. She interviews Kati Marton, author of "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History," who says that while couples in the White House are in many ways like all couples, they "are different from the rest of us in that they have to put the presidency ahead of everything else in their lives for those four or eight years. . . . If they don't, they don't succeed, because the responsibility is so crushing and the scrutiny so total."

To watch the video click here.

For more info:
"Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our Recent History" by Kati Marton (Anchor Books)
"America's First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Lives in the White House" by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (Simon & Schuster)
National First Ladies Library, Canton, Ohio
[phone]

OUR MAN IN PARIS: French Seduction School
David Turecamo reports.

MUSIC: Marilyn and Alan Bergman

ROMANCE IN BRIEF: Bobby Flay's Recipe for Love
Chocolates are one famous way to sweeten a relationship, but if the route to someone's heart is indeed through the stomach, someone who'd really know is Chef Bobby Flay.

STILLER AND MEARA: Part Two

JUST MARRIED: Wedding Announcements
When you're "Just Married" you want just about everybody to read all about it. And there's one place above all others you want it to appear, as Rita Braver shows us.

BY THE NUMBERS: Americans and Marriage

MO ROCCA: On Call, Part One
Mo Rocca is on assignment this Sunday Morning . . . as a paid escort.

For more info:
papau.net
sandracostaswork.com
wokcanocafe.com
tatoullc.com
elissastein.com

PROFILE: The Rise and Rise of Susan Boyle
For anyone who has dreamed of overnight stardom, Susan Boyle must have seemed a dream girl, at least at first. But this resident of the town of Blackburn in eastern Scotland has learned what a trial instant celebrity can be. Mark Phillips reports.

ROMANCE IN BRIEF: Stiller and Meara

To watch the video click here.

MO ROCCA: On Call, Part Two

BILL GEIST: Bill Geist's Puppy Love
After years as cat people, Bill and Jody Geist decided to get a dog. They had no idea how much that would change their lives. This Sunday Morning come along on the adventure as the Geists discover all that is involved in raising their first puppy. It’s puppy love at first sight when Daphne arrives.

To watch the video click here.

For more info:
goldensrescue.org
pricelesspetservices.com
followmyleadnyc.com
zoomiesnyc.com
tomydog.com

NATURE: Flowers in New Jersey