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COVER STORY: Michael J Fox on Parkinson’s and how he finds “optimism is sustainable”
One of the most famous actors to burst onto the scene in the 1980s, Michael J. Fox has become almost as famous for his very public fight against Parkinson’s disease. With “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley, the “Family Ties” and “Back to the Future” star looks back on superstardom, raising $1.5 billion for Parkinson’s research, and a new documentary tracing his life, called “Still.”
PREVIEW: Michael J. Fox on Parkinson’s: “Every day it gets tougher” | Watch Video
To watch a trailer for “Still” click on the video player below:
For more info:
- Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
- “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” debuts on Apple TV+ May 12
ART: Treasures of comic strip art
Bill Blackbeard was something of a superhero. During his lifetime, he collected and preserved 2.5 million ephemeral artifacts of comic strip art, including newspapers and Sunday color sections dating as far back as 1893. Treasures from his collection are now featured in a new exhibit, “Man Saves Comics,” at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University. Correspondent Luke Burbank reports.
For more info:
- Exhibit: “Man Saves Comics! Bill Blackbeard’s Treasure of 20th Century Newspapers,” at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (through May 7)
- San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection
HISTORY: Surviving the torturous hell of the Hanoi Hilton
During the Vietnam War, American POWs were systematically tortured at a prison camp they sarcastically dubbed the “Hanoi Hilton.” Now, salvaged remnants of the prison have been reconstructed as part of an exhibit at the American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with former prisoners who recount what it took to survive.
For more info:
- American Heritage Museum, Hudson, Mass.
- National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
WORLD: “Ring for the King”: Bell ringers prepare for the coronation of King Charles III
On Coronation Day for Britain’s new king, every bell in every church in England will be rung. Bell ringing is a tradition that dates back centuries. But a shortage of bell ringers meant an appeal was made for volunteers. Correspondent Seth Doane gets an earful as he checks out rehearsals for the big day.
For more info:
- Chalfont St. Giles Parish Church
- Central Council of Church Bell Ringers
- St. Leonard’s Church, Streatham, London
PASSAGE: In memoriam
MUSIC: Lucinda Williams: Chasing down lyrical rabbit holes to find herself
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 forthcoming 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; the hard-won success she’s achieved from her lyrical gifts; and why she finds it hard to accept the adulation that’s coming to her late in life.
For more info:
- lucindawilliams.com
- “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir” by Lucinda Williams (Crown), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
- Pre-order her album “Stories From a Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart” due June 30
- Troubadour, West Hollywood, Calif.
HARTMAN: Nurses
MUSIC: Bruce Springsteen on “Nebraska,” and the emergence of Springsteen the poet
In-between his chart-topping album “The River” and his classic “Born in the U.S.A.,” Bruce Springsteen recorded a collection of songs on a 4-track cassette recorder in a bedroom at his rented farmhouse – dark, mournful, and rough-hewn songs that reflected the upheaval in his life at a time of rising success. The resulting album, 1982’s “Nebraska,” would be one of his most personal, and helped solidify his status as one of music’s most soulful voices. Springsteen talks with correspondent Jim Axelrod about how “Nebraska” spoke to his evolution as a songwriter. Axelrod also talks with Warren Zanes, author of the new book, “Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’.”
PREVIEW: Bruce Springsteen on the making of his landmark album “Nebraska” | Watch Video
You can stream “Nebraska” by Bruce Springsteen by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
For more info:
- “Nebraska” by Bruce Springsteen
- brucespringsteen.net
- “Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska'” by Warren Zanes (Crown), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available May 2 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
COMMENTARY: Sarah DiGregorio on how supporting nurses helps all of us
The author of “Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World” discusses the power of the nurse-patient relationship, and how poor nurse-to-patient ratios can be a matter of life or death.
For more info:
- “Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World” by Sarah DiGregorio (HarperCollins), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available May 2 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
- sarahdigregorio.com
BROADWAY: Sean Hayes on “Good Night, Oscar”
The Emmy Award-winning star of “Will & Grace” stars in the new Broadway play “Good Night, Oscar,” about the witty and eccentric 1950s musical star Oscar Levant, whose mental health struggles and addiction to drugs would come front-and-center during an appearance on Jack Paar’s “The Tonight Show.” Correspondent David Pogue talks with Hayes about conjuring the urbane but troubled Levant on stage; and with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright about the darkness at the center of the play’s central figure.
For more info:
- “Good Night, Oscar” at the Belasco Theatre, New York City | Ticket info
- Follow Sean Hayes on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
- Doug Wright (IBDB)
NATURE: TBD
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: From 1988: Harry Belafonte, “a voice with a conscience” (Video)
Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at the age of 96. Correspondent Billy Taylor talked with Belafonte about his album, “Paradise in Gazankulu,” featuring music rooted in the culture and politics of South Africa, and about his globe-trotting work for social justice, in this report that originally aired on “CBS Sunday Morning” September 18, 1988.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: From 2001: Harry Belafonte on preserving Black music (Video)
In this “CBS Sunday Morning” feature that originally aired December 9, 2001, Harry Belafonte talks with correspondent Byron Pitts about “The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music,” which explores music of the Black diaspora, from African folk music to gospel and the American blues, and which took 30 years to complete and release. Belafonte, a singer, actor and human rights activist, died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at age 96.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: From 2011: Harry Belafonte’s life of singing, acting and activism (Video)
Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at age 96. In this “CBS Sunday Morning” profile that originally aired on December 4, 2011, Belafonte talked with correspondent Russ Mitchell about how, during his long musical career, he’d tried to catch the social conscience of the nation as well.
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