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This week: Melissa McCarthy

Feb. 17: Lee Cowan talks with the actress, nominated for an Academy Award for playing one of the most prolific literary forgers in history in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"

  • Up next:

  • George Washington's first love

    George Washington's first love

    Feb. 17: There was another side to the Father of Our Country, as told in a new historical romance by author Mary Calvi, "Dear George, Dear Mary"

  • Read a book excerpt:

  • The first love of George Washington

    The first love of George Washington

    In her historical romance, "Dear George, Dear Mary," Mary Calvi examines the relationship between the Father of Our Country and the heiress who won his heart before Martha

  • Rundown:

  • This week on "Sunday Morning" (February 17)

    This week on "Sunday Morning" (February 17)

    A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program
  • Feeling lonely? You're not alone

    Feeling lonely? You're not alone

    Nearly half of Americans say they sometimes or always feel alone, which can have health consequences: doctors say loneliness can lead to increased mortality equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day
  • Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

    Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

    Honored for her charity work, the poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters
  • Spike Lee on "BlacKkKlansman," awards, and an artist's validation

    Spike Lee on "BlacKkKlansman," awards, and an artist's validation

    The filmmaker has earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Director for the amazing true story of a black undercover officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan

    • Gallery: The films of Spike Lee
  • Electric Lady Studios: The "House That Hendrix Built"

    Electric Lady Studios: The "House That Hendrix Built"

    One of a handful of the world's storied recording stages has been a magnet for artists from David Bowie and Stevie Wonder to Roger Waters and Lady Gaga

  • Moments in Nature:

  • Winter in New York

    Winter in New York

    Sunday Morning takes you this winter's morning to a snow-filled landscape near Concord, New York. Videographer: Carl Mrozek

    • Watch more extended videos of our Moment in Nature

  • Nature up close:

  • How birds' eyes are different from other vertebrates'

    During millions of years of evolution, birds have developed many adaptations for flight, including in the avian eye (with video)

  • Nature up close: Caddo Lake

  • Nature up close: Water, and life as we know it

  • Nature up close: Sperm whales

  • In memoriam:

  • A horse and his pal

    A horse and his pal

    We are sad to learn that a long-lived former racehorse, Waco Hanover, whose remarkable friendship with his caretaker was lovingly covered in our 2017 report, died Saturday at the age of 42; Watch Tony Dokoupil's original feature
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It's winter, but the music is hot!
  • Capturing the "Sunday Morning" Moments of Nature

    Capturing the "Sunday Morning" Moments of Nature

    Meet some of our team of videographers who bring the beauty and sounds of nature to our broadcast each week

  • In case you missed:

  • An end to food allergies?

    26 million people, including 6 million kids, are allergic to one food or another, with peanuts producing one of the most severe reactions; might a reversal of medical advice slow or even eliminate the problem?

  • Homelessness on campus

  • Nancy Pelosi: "We have a problem" if Trump doesn't care about governance

  • The treasures of King Tut, on tour for the last time

  • Going the distance: Blind runner Simon Wheatcroft

  • The longest hatred: Anti-Semitism on the rise

  • Band of brothers: The lives and deaths of war photographers

  • The chronicles of "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau

  • "The White Darkness": One explorer's obsession with Antarctica

  • Hearing aids: You ain't heard nothing yet

  • Maternal mortality: An American crisis

  • A life cut short: Trying to understand suicide

  • 40 years of "Sunday Morning"

  • A history of "Sunday Morning"

    Jane Pauley turns back the calendar to January 28, 1979, the very beginning of "Sunday Morning," and looks at how over the last four decades the broadcast has stayed true to Charles Kuralt's vision – traveling the back roads, taking our audience places and showing them things they wouldn't see anywhere else on television, to make sure "gentler subjects" get their due.

  • The roads less traveled

  • The bold-faced interviews

  • Stories with heart

  • The artist's vision

  • From the archive:

  • From 2012: Bill Geist as father of the bride

    Check out some of the classic "Sunday Morning" stories featured in today's 40-year anniversary show

  • 1981: Louis turns 13

  • 1983: One small town's closeup

  • 1992: Tiger Woods, the future of golf

  • 1999: J.K. Rowling on the origins of Harry Potter

  • 2001: Making a splash

  • 2006: One skier's uphill battle

  • 2006: Jimmy Carter on life after the White House

  • 2012: Glen Campbell's final tour

  • 2012: How the harp strikes a chord with Atlanta youth

  • 2013: One small step in the fight against pediatric cancer

  • 2014: Brought back from the dead

  • ​2015: Fighting back against Parkinson's - in the ring

  • ​2015: The girl in the picture

  • 2015: The magic of the Northern Lights

  • 2015: Aboard the Hermione

  • 2015: High art - Photography from the heavens

  • 2015: Exotic Indian train ride transports tourists through time

  • 2016: The Dalai Lama on seeking joy

  • 2016: The Goodyear blimp's next chapter

  • 2016: A walk among polar bears

  • 2016: The Harmony Project

  • 2017: Art Garfunkel: Life is a surprise

  • 2017: Hillary Clinton speaks

  • 2018: Borrowed time - A life with cancer

  • On books:

  • Travels with the "Green Book"

    For decades the guide offered safe havens to African American travelers who faced being turned away or threatened in the era of segregation

  • Louise Penny: How writing became her solace

  • Encyclopedia Britannica is turning 250 – look it up!

  • Bob Woodward: "People better wake up to what's going on" in the Oval Office

  • Seymour Hersh: The life of a "Reporter"

  • The essential Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Ann Patchett: Writer, and purveyor, of books

  • Remembering 1968:

  • How Apollo 8 sent a timeless holiday greeting from the heavens

    On Christmas Eve 1968, the first humans to circle the Moon sent back the first image of a beautiful, fragile Earth, home to us all

  • Richard M. Nixon's election victory

  • Tommie Smith and his "moment of truth" at the Mexico City Olympics

  • When Miss America met women's liberation

  • Chicago's bloody Democratic Convention

  • The birth of Intel

  • Remembering Robert F. Kennedy, and a generation's loss

  • The future as depicted in "2001: A Space Odyssey"

  • When "Hair" took root in pop culture

  • "Laugh-In," comedy that defined the times

  • The Martin Luther King Jr. we knew

  • How an upstart primary challenge ended a presidency

  • The revolutionary "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band"

  • The Tet Offensive

  • On art:

  • Using high-tech tools to recreate and preserve ancient treasures

    In its Madrid workshop, Factum Arte uses scans of archaeological masterpieces to create exacting facsimiles that have both the look and feel of the originals

  • Potter and author Edmund de Waal on the poetry of objects

  • Lisbon street artist "Vhils": How Alexandre Farto scrapes and carves art into cityscapes

  • Georgia O'Keeffe and her visions of Hawaii

  • The restless perfectionism of Alberto Giacometti

  • Balloon art: A POP! culture competition

  • How Georg Baselitz turned the art world upside-down

  • The pioneering prints of Dox Thrash

  • M.C. Escher: A mind-bending exhibition

  • Tarsila, the "Picasso of Brazil"

  • De-constructing the art of Anselm Kiefer

  • Artist Françoise Gilot, on life with and after Picasso

  • On fashion:

  • Maye Musk, the silver cover girl

    She's been been modeling since the age of 15, but today, at age 70, Musk is more in-demand than ever

  • Ralph Lauren: "I feel cooler now than ever"

  • Maye Musk, the silver cover girl

  • Twiggy, still in fashion

  • Stella McCartney: Fashion with a conscience

  • Betsey Johnson, fashion's free spirit

  • Michael Kors: Still on the cutting edge

  • Read a book excerpt:

  • Don Winslow's "The Border"

    Don Winslow's "The Border"

    The bestselling author of "The Cartel" and "The Power of the Dog" concludes his trilogy about America's war on drugs. Don't miss Jeff Glor's interview with Don Winslow on "Sunday Morning" Feb. 17!

  • "Mobituaries":

  • The unstoppable Sammy Davis Jr.

    Mo Rocca's podcast explores the life and career of the man many consider the greatest entertainer of the 20th century

  • Mo Rocca on the enduring popularity of Audrey Hepburn

  • Who was the first African American major leaguer? Not Jackie Robinson

  • Rubies: The real rock stars

    Rubies: The real rock stars

    Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but blood-red gemstones are a cut above the rest. Serena Altschul examines what qualities make rubies the new gold standard for romantic gifts
  • True love: A boy and a dog

    True love: A boy and a dog

    A five-year-old Oregon boy nicknamed Little Buddy and a dress-alike Australian Labradoodle named Reagan are the best of friends

  • From Steve Hartman:

  • Remembering Dad

    Remembering Dad

    Steve Hartman's father, George, has been featured in eight of his stories over the years, including some of his most popular. We're sad to report that, at age 92, George Hartman has passed away. His son has a tribute from the heart

    • 2004: Hartman and his father visit the Grand Canyon

    • 2015: Hartman helps his father move
  • True love: A bicycle built for two

    True love: A bicycle built for two

    Is there a secret to making a marriage go the distance? For one New Jersey couple, it's riding a tandem bike for the past 45 years
  • True love: Same-sex penguins raise a baby chick

    True love: Same-sex penguins raise a baby chick

    True love has found a way for two male penguins at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia
  • Let's hear it for singing telegrams

    Let's hear it for singing telegrams

    Even though the telegraph has gone the way of carbon paper, there is always a market for personal exclamations celebrating birthdays, anniversaries and congratulations, by performers in ridiculous costumes

  • Missed our broadcast?

  • Watch the full February 10 episode!

    Our full show is also available to watch on CBS All Access, as well as via Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, Chromecast, Amazon FireTV/FireTV stick and Xbox
  • Unmasking the racist history of blackface

    Unmasking the racist history of blackface

    Maurice DuBois looks at the long and complex history of minstrelsy and stereotyping in which white (and African American) performers painted their faces black
  • An Evening with CBS Sunday Morning - Live at Town Hall

    An Evening with CBS Sunday Morning - Live at Town Hall

    Did you miss our recent live appearance in New York City? You can now watch a replay of this special event featuring guest Jon Batiste
  • Meet the "Sunday Morning" Sun Queen

    Meet the "Sunday Morning" Sun Queen

    For 20 years associate director Jessica Frank has been handpicking every shining example of sun artwork to appear on our program – about 9,000 and counting

    • Gallery: "Sunday Morning" sun art

  • On TV:

  • Sunny days on "Sesame Street"

    The eyes and ears of millions of children are in good hands with the puppeteers of the TV show that will soon mark 50 years of teaching kids about the alphabet, numbers, and love

  • "Property Brothers" stars Drew and Jonathan Scott: All in the family

  • Ben Stiller on directing the prison-break drama "Escape at Dannemora"

  • "Big Bang Theory" creator Chuck Lorre on his Netflix series, "The Kominsky Method"

  • Documentary "Love, Gilda" recalls the beloved comedian's all-too-brief life

  • On stage:

  • Carole King and her "Beautiful" life

    As the Broadway musical that celebrates the singer-songwriter's gifts marks its fifth anniversary, she surprised the audience by taking the stage to play herself

  • Encore: Lin-Manuel Miranda brings "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico

  • Kenneth Lonergan on "The Waverly Gallery" and its personal story of dementia

  • Kerry Washington on calling the shots

  • Tina Fey brings her "Mean Girls" to Broadway

  • On movies:

  • It's Sam Elliott season

    The veteran character actor, a first-time Oscar-nominee for "A Star Is Born," has been living a surreal year

  • "At Eternity's Gate": Recreating Van Gogh's vision on screen

  • "Glass" director M. Night Shyamalan comes full circle

  • Michael Caine: Not the retiring type

  • The return of Laurel & Hardy

  • Emily Blunt on "Mary Poppins Returns"

  • An "Annie Hall" for the ages: Seniors star in a remake of Woody Allen's classic

  • Robert Redford: "There's only the trying"

  • Music:

  • Linda Ronstadt: A voice from the past

    Linda Ronstadt: A voice from the past

    The retired singer who struggles with Parkinson's has released her first-ever live album, from newly-uncovered tapes of a 1980 concert, recorded at the height of her vocal powers

    • Marty Stuart and his collection of holy relics of country music

    • Remembering the one and only Carol Channing

    • Shawn Mendes: His star has taken off

    • Michael Bublé is back with "Love," and takes nothing for granted

  • Singer-songwriter John Prine: Still alive and kickin'

    After surviving two bouts of cancer, the 72-year-old songwriter revered by other songwriters has released "The Tree of Forgiveness," the highest-charting album of his career

  • Cardi B on her determination: "I get up every single time, honey"

  • Singer-songwriter Alessia Cara on "The Pains of Growing"

  • The Who's Roger Daltrey: Music legend, teen cancer warrior

  • How former Journey frontman Steve Perry started believin' again

  • Jeff Goldblum: Living life like a jazz piece

    His acting improvisational, his style unpredictable, the actor has made an art of being offbeat, and is this week releasing his first jazz album with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

  • Max Richter's music to sleep by

  • Tina Turner on her voice, finding serenity and losing a son

  • Leonard Bernstein at 100

    The composer-conductor was a superstar of the concert hall, the Broadway stage and television; a new touring exhibition examines the multi-talented music legend

  • Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, playing beautiful music together

  • Rory Feek and family

  • Art Garfunkel on finding his voice again

  • Joan Baez: On record, and on canvas

  • David Bowie and his ever-evolving self-portrait

  • Carrie Underwood on getting beyond 3 miscarriages, to joy

    The "Cry Pretty" singer says, after a year of despair, her personal agony led to a remarkable moment after she "told God how I felt"

  • Leon Bridges raises his voice

  • "Piano Man" Billy Joel on hitting the 100 mark at Madison Square Garden

  • Petula Clark: Still "Living for Today"

  • The Go-Go's on their staying power

  • Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters: "I love music, and I love life"

  • The Killers' Brandon Flowers: Swagger and faith

  • Island-Hopping:

  • An authentic taste of France on the western shores of the Atlantic

    The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are a French territory off the coast of Canada that proudly heralds its Gallic roots

  • Purr-adise: Hawaii's cat sanctuary

  • Tourism in the Galápagos

  • St. Helena

  • The Faroe Islands, a new foodie destination

  • Wake Island: Where America's day really begins

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