60 Minutes’ longest-serving correspondent, who retired this week, talks about his early days at the broadcast and his famous rivalry with Mike Wallace Source
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That time Miss Piggy flirted with Morley Safer
Correspondent Morley Safer likes to laugh, and America laughed with him when he interviewed the Muppets’ femme fatale, Miss Piggy. Take a look back at this and other funny Morley moments from Safer’s 46 seasons on 60 Minutes Source
Honoring Morley Safer’s five-decade career in only one hour
How do you condense a 52-year CBS News career – including 919 stories for 60 Minutes – into an hour-long tribute? Three producers discuss the challenge Source
Breakthrough Status, part two
Scott Pelley continues his report on the Duke clinical trail of a new cancer therapy. Discoveries take Duke researchers in a direction they never imagined. Source
Fred Newman’s followup to “Prairie Home Companion”
After more than 40 years, Garrison Keillor is departing from his endearing radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion.” His expert sound FX man, Fred Newman, thinks the void may be filled with a tale of Brooklyn baristas, and acts accordingly. Source
How sound FX man Fred Newman dramatized the Rapture
Garrison Keillor, host of radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” constantly tests the creativity of his sound FX artist Fred Newman. Here, he poses an audio challenge: depict the Rapture. Source
What Fred Newman taught Meryl Streep about radio acting
In this web extra, the sound effects artist behind the radio series “A Prairie Home Companion” tells Jane Pauley about some tips he gave actress Meryl Streep on how to perform sight unseen. Source
Morley Safer on art
After a half-century at CBS News, legendary reporter Morley Safer is retiring. Somehow in the whirlwind of doing 919 reports for “60 Minutes,” Morley found time to contribute dozens of pieces to “Sunday Morning” over the years, most of them about the masters of art. We look back at a few. Source
Cable news headliner Rachel Maddow
The MSNBC anchor talks with Rita Braver about depression, firearms politics, and how she runs her cable news program, “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Source
Man makes his own “Ghostbuster” car
A fan went above and beyond to show his love of the movie “Ghostbusters.” The North Carolina resident converted his car to look just like the one in the movie, even creating his own “proton pack.” Source