Director Martin Scorsese and actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro talk with correspondent Lee Cowan about their first-ever collaboration, “The Irishman,” the true story of Frank Sheeran, a hit man for a Philadelphia crime family. The mob epic, which spans decades, was created using cutting-edge technology to “de-age” its cast, as it traces a story of loyalty and corruption, and explores the fate of Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa. Source
Passage: Bill Macy and Elijah Cummings
“Sunday Morning” remembers an actor famed for playing the long-suffering TV husband of Bea Arthur in the ’70s sitcom “Maude,” and a fiery orator of the House and untiring champion of civil rights. Jane Pauley reports. Source
Nature: Butterflies
“Sunday Morning” takes us to a gathering of cabbage butterflies near Bridgeton, New Jersey. Videographer: Jeff Reisly. Source
Tracing the remarkable life’s path of Harriet Tubman
The abolitionist who rescued enslaved people via the Underground Railroad also led U.S. troops in a raid that freed hundreds during the Civil War Source
Playing an escape room
Correspondents David Pogue, Martha Teichner and Nancy Giles, along with “Sunday Morning” intern Cory Peeler, face a difficult challenge: Find their way out of a room before a bomb goes off! It’s just one of many examples of the big business in escape rooms – immersive adventures in which people must solve puzzles in order to extricate themselves. Source
What’s in a name?
At a small university near Birmingham, Alabama, Steve Hartman found a big guy: 6’8″, 310-pound senior offensive lineman George Grimwade, a dominating force on the Samford Bulldog football team, who used his time on the playing field to send a very special message to his stepdad. Source
The real Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover had been president for less than a year when the Crash of 1929 initiated the Great Depression, an epochal event in American history that would place his name near the bottom of presidential rankings. But the engineer and business magnate, who made several fortunes in his 20s, is also remembered as a great humanitarian for feeding several million starving Belgians during World War I, and for introducing a variety of innovations in American life, from standardized traffic lights to milk cartons. Mo Rocca examines Hoover’s remarkable rise (from humble beginnings to the White House) and his remarkable fall. Source
Portrait of the artist Helen Frankenthaler
The beauty of Provincetown, Massachusetts inspired many works by one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). A series of works that the abstract expressionist painter created on Cape Cod is on view in an exhibit called “Abstract Climates,” at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island. Correspondent Rita Braver talked with co-curator Elizabeth Smith, and with the artist’s step-daughter, Lise Motherwell, about Frankenthaler’s unique style. Source
Escapism: The immersive adventure of escape rooms
A “Sunday Morning” team faces a difficult challenge: Find their way out of a room before a bomb goes off! It’s just one example of the big business in which trapped people have fun trying to save themselves Source
Skateboarding: Why should youth be wasted on the young?
Contributor Luke Burbank recently took up a new hobby, and while inside he felt like a kid again, outside he remained very much a middle-aged man with intermittent balance Source