Actor Kevin Bacon, who gained fame with the 1984 film "Footloose" (and even more fame with the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon), talks about celebrity; his new Showtime series, "City on a Hill," in which he plays a corrupt federal agent in Boston; and about his charity, called – what else? - Six Degrees. Lee Cowan reports. Read More »
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Almanac: Cole Porter
The composer of such Broadway classics as "Anything Goes" and "Kiss Me, Kate" was born on June 19, 1891. Jane Pauley reports. Read More »
Kevin Bacon on career longevity, and the links that connect us all
The actor talks about his new Showtime series, "City on a Hill," fame, and the connections that bring us several degrees closer to one another Read More »
Gen. Eisenhower and the D-Day invasion
David Eisenhower, grandson of the general who commanded the greatest military operation of history’s most terrible war, talks with David Martin about the legacy of D-Day, and of the decisions made and responsibilities borne by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, who led nearly 160,000 Allied troops into Normandy 75 years ago. Source Read More »
The “Wow!” concert
It was an unusual outburst for a classical music concert: an audience member shouted out “Wow!” at the very end of Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral Music,” performed by the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. The group’s president and CEO, David Snead, was determined to find out who had broken audience protocol in such a forthright way. The answer to his ... Read More »
Nature: Elk
“Sunday Morning” takes us to Point Reyes National Seashore in California, a safe home for Tule Elk, hunted nearly to extinction in the 1800s. Videographer: Lee McEachern. Source Read More »
His grandfather’s war: David Eisenhower on the general and D-Day
How Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the 1944 invasion of Normandy, made the decision that would help free the continent from Nazi occupation Source Read More »
Broadway star Andrew Rannells
It's been seven years since Andrew Rannells left the hit Broadway show, "The Book of Mormon," for which he earned his first Tony Award nomination. He has since starred in several TV series, and authored a memoir, "Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood." Faith Salie talked with Rannells about how he found the spotlight. Read More »
Passage: Dr. John
Musician and songwriter Malcolm John Rebennack Jr, known by his stage name Dr. John, mixed blues, jazz, rock, and faux voodoo in a musical gumbo all his own. Mo Rocca reports on the passing of a true son of New Orleans. Read More »
Broadway’s Andrew Rannells: “Too Much Is Not Enough”
The Tony-nominated star of "The Book of Mormon" has authored a memoir about his "fumbling toward adulthood" Read More »