This week on "Sunday Morning" (October 28)
HEADLINES: Gunman kills 11 in Pittsburgh synagogue, yelled "All Jews must die" (VIDEO)
In one of the deadliest attacks on Jewish-Americans in U.S. history, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday and opened fire. In minutes, 11 people were killed. Police say the suspect, who is in custody, yelled that "All Jews must die." David Begnaud reports.
COVER STORY: The banking crisis 10 years on, and the danger of another crash | Watch Video
In 2008, the banking system was near collapse, the stock market was in free fall, and government officials (it seemed to many) were as clueless as the rest of us. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger looks back at the housing and banking crisis that almost dragged the world down into another Great Depression, and talks with historian Adam Tooze and Wall Street Journal reporter Gretchen Morgenson about how many of the new rules put into place to protect the system from suffering another meltdown are being diluted.
For more info:
- Jill on Money
- Follow @JillonMoney on Twitter
- "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" by Adam Tooze (Viking), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
- Adam Tooze, Columbia University
- Gretchen Morgenson, The Wall Street Journal
- Follow @gmorgenson on Twitter
ALMANAC: The 1858 launch of Macy's | Watch Video
On October 28, 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened a small dry goods store in New York City that would grow into a retail giant renowned for parades. Jane Pauley reports.
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POSTCARD FROM DENMARK: Licorice: Love it or hate it | Watch Video
Salty licorice is a favorite Scandinavian treat, and quite different from the "licorice" candy that many Americans are used to eating, which sometimes contains no real licorice at all.
Conor Knighton visits Copenhagen, where bitter licorice candy has a strong following, and where entrepreneur Johan Bulow's company Lakrids has launched high-end, authentic licorice to discriminating palates around the world.
For more info:
- Lakrids by Bülow, Hvidovre, Denmark
HALLOWEEN: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" at 200 | Watch Video
Two centuries ago, at a storm-tossed villa in Switzerland owned by Lord Byron, a young girl named Mary Shelley accepted a challenge to write a ghost story, and created what would become one of the most famous names in horror: Frankenstein. Roxana Saberi looks at the creation of Shelley's mythic tale, published in 1818, and what her story of a scientist who harnesses life itself has to teach audiences today.
GALLERY: "Frankenstein" on screen
For more info:
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Oct. 31, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
- David Spurr, University of Geneva
- Villa Diodati, Cologny, Switzerland (Atlas Obscura)
- It's Alive! Frankenstein at 200, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City (through January 27, 2019)
- Frankenreads.org (an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" by the Keats-Shelley Association of America.)
- The Strange and Twisted Life of "Frankenstein" (The New Yorker)
- "Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley (Project Gutenberg)
- "Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years" by Christopher Frayling (Reel Art Press), available via Amazon
CULTURE: Unmasking the history of blackface | Watch Video
With the recent controversy over Megyn Kelly's remarks in which she questioned why wearing blackface on Halloween was offensive, "Sunday Morning" contributor and WCBS anchor Maurice DuBois looks at the long and complex history of white (and even black) performers painting their faces black. For more than 100 years, minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment on stage and film, reducing an entire race of people to stereotypes. DuBois speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson, and with Eric Lott, cultural historian and professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, about the complicated history of a racist theatrical form.
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Margo Jefferson on the history of black performers wearing blackface
As a theatrical art form that began in the 19th century, minstrel shows featured white performers wearing blackface to evoke stereotypes. But African-American performers have also worn blackface when taking the stage. In this web exclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson talks with "Sunday Morning" contributor and WCBS anchor Maurice DuBois about why black performers felt the need to don a black mask.
For more info:
- Follow @jeffersonmargo on Twitter
- "Negroland: A Memoir" by Margo Jefferson (Penguin), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon
- Eric Lott, Graduate Center, CUNY
PASSAGE: Dorcas Reilly, creator of the green bean casserole | Watch Video
This week we learned of the death earlier this month, at age 92, of Dorcas Reilly. A long-time employee of the home economics department at Campbell Soup, Reilly invented the recipe for the "Green Bean Bake" back in 1955. Her combination of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, fried onions, and seasonings was a near-instant hit with homemakers, and is today used by millions each Thanksgiving.
MOVIES: Jonah Hill on directing "Mid90s" | Watch Video
"Mid90s" is about a tight-knit band of skaters growing up and raising hell in mid-'90s Los Angeles. For first-time director Jonah Hill, who earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for "Moneyball" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," it's another chance for him to "mess up." He tells Tracy Smith, "I mess up every day. I mess up in a way that makes me human. It's what you do after you mess up that makes you someone worthy, you know?"
To watch a trailer for "Mid90s" click on the video player below.
For more info:
- "Mid90s" (Official site)
ADVENTURES: "The White Darkness": One explorer's obsession with Antarctica | Watch Video
Henry Worsley's lifetime fascination with Antarctic explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott led him to retrace their expeditions in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. In 2015 Worsley set off yet again to emulate his hero, Shackleton, by embarking on the first solo crossing of the continent. Anthony Mason reports.
For more info:
- "The White Darkness" by David Grann (Doubleday), in Hardover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
- Shackleton Solo (Official site)
- "In Shackleton's Footsteps: A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic" by Henry Worsley (Lyons Press), available via Amazon
- The Explorers Club, New York
- National Science Foundation
HALLOWEEN: "Halloween" and the surge in horror films: Why audiences are dying to get their fix of fear | Watch Video
The latest iteration of the horror film "Halloween," a sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter classic, scared up a staggering $77.5 million when it opened last week. Lee Cowan talks with actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who returned to once again face off against the masked Michael Myers, and who admits she doesn't like scary movies! He also talks with Vulture film critic Jordan Crucchiola about the popularity of horror films; sociologist Margee Kerr, who studies what happens to our brains when we experience fear in the theatre; and with Jason Blum, whose Blumhouse Productions was behind last year's Oscar-winning horror hit "Get Out."
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How Jamie Lee Curtis was scared off the horror genre
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of the star of "Psycho," was born into horror film royalty, and she earned a place herself when she starred in the original 1978 "Halloween." But as she tells "Sunday Morning" correspondent Lee Cowan, she's not a fan of horror films, and she credits one movie in particular for scaring her off the genre: "The Exorcist."
For more info:
- "Halloween" (Official site for 2018 movie)
- John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978) - On Blu-ray/DVD and via streaming
- Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture
- "Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear" by Margee Kerr (PublicAffairs), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon
- margeekerr.com (Official site)
- Blumhouse Productions
REMEMBERING 1968: Raised fist: Tommie Smith and his "moment of truth" at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics | Watch Video
One of the 20th century's best-known images is of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the Olympic medal stand in Mexico City in 1968, their fists raised in protest, taking a stand for civil rights on a world stage. Smith and Carlos would become pariahs to some, heroes to others. Today, some NFL players are modeling their activism, using their platforms to call attention to racial injustice.
Jim Axelrod talks with Smith; sociologist Harry Edwards, who taught Smith and Carlos at San Jose State, and whose Olympic Project for Human Rights organized athletes to protest; and the Philadelphia Eagles' Michael Bennett and Malcolm Jenkins.
For more info:
- tommiesmith.com
- johncarlos68.com
- Harry Edwards, University of California, Berkeley
- Artist Glenn Kaino
- "Things That Make White People Uncomfortable" by Michael Bennett and Dave Zarin (Haymarket), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon
- Follow Michael Bennett (@mosesbread72) on Twitter
- Malcolm Jenkins Foundation
- Follow @MalcolmJenkins on Twitter
NATURE: Spiders | Watch Extended Video
A few days before Halloween, "Sunday Morning" shows viewers a spider weaving a web. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.
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CALENDAR: Week of October 29 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.
NATURE UP CLOSE: The best wolf ever
Judith Lehmberg looks back at the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park, and the legacy of one special male.
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