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Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin, who won acclaim for performances both comedic and heartfelt, died on Friday, June 30 at the age of 89. In this profile that aired on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 11, 2007, the character actor talked with correspondent Jerry Bowen about his start in music; how joining the Second City improv comedy group "saved" his life; and about the Sundance hit "Little Miss Sunshine," for which Arkin would win the Oscar that year for best supporting actor.
We leave you this first summer Sunday with elephant seals enjoying a day at the beach in San Simeon, California. Videographer: Russell Nickerson.
Grammy-winning songwriter Lucinda Williams was a late-bloomer as a singer, blurring rock, country, folk and blues into such hit albums as "World Without Tears", "West" and "Little Honey." With a new memoir ("Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You"), and a new album ("Stories from a Rock 'n' Roll Heart"), 2023 is shaping up to be a big year for the 70-year-old, just three years after she'd suffered a stroke. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Williams about her recovery, and her hard-won, late-blooming success.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery, author of "American Whitelash", discusses violent acts by aggrieved white supremacists against democracy, and how a new election cycle, and increasingly-hateful political rhetoric, may raise the stakes.
For nearly four decades as a star of films and TV, Rock Hudson was Hollywood's epitome of heterosexual desire. But he also led a secret life as a closeted gay man, and in 1985 became the first celebrity to die of AIDS. Correspondent Tracy Smith looks back on the public and private lives of Hudson, and talks with Stephen Kijak, director of the new HBO documentary "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed"; biographer Mark Griffin; and actress Linda Evans, who shared a romantic scene with Hudson on "Dynasty" at a time when some feared that a kiss could transmit HIV.
Let's be clear: Ice is more than just frozen cubes of water. Correspondent Serena Altschul checks out how the quality of ice, in all shapes and varieties, is key to a cocktail. (This story was originally broadcast on November 20, 2022.)
Five years ago, Paul Simon said he was finished writing songs. But he couldn't stop; new music was coming to him in dreams. The songs became the basis of his latest album, "Seven Psalms." The 81-year-old Simon talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about the addictive nature of songwriting, and whether his hearing loss will mean the end of performing publicly.
CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on the latest developments from Russia, where mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, hired to wage battle against Ukraine, called out Vladimir Putin's war machine for its lack of support, and threatened mutiny against the Russian military. Former Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan calls it the most significant threat yet to Putin's iron grip on power.
Tom Brokaw's latest book, "Never Give Up," is a loving tribute to his family who headed west after the Civil War, and to other hard-working people of the Plains States whose stoic outlook built America's Midwest. The former NBC newsman talks with "Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley about his parents, how Brokaw himself found the origins of his own success in a tiny town in South Dakota, and how he has persisted against an incurable form of blood cancer.
When David Johnson was 11 years old, an eastern screech owl landed on the edge of his tent. He was captivated. Today, he's the director of the Global Owl Project, which researches the enigmatic bird and works to preserve owl habitat around the world. Correspondent Conor Knighton talks with Johnson; science writer Jennifer Ackerman, author of the book "What an Owl Knows"; and Andrew Wildbill, wildlife manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, whose dwindling owl population is being restored.
