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a tradition for generations >> osgood: good morning i'm he charles good this is "sunday morning." last night tornanaes left a trail of death and destruction in texas. in the southeast, 18 people lost their lives in twisters and floods over christmas. and here in the east, we were hahang a heat wave. knows full well the weather of late has been warm or wet or stormy but perhaps most of all strazge. mark strassmannill report our "sunday morning" cover story. >> this is what winter is supposed to look like. but not this year. this warmth, this heat capacity is what is driving that jet pattern. >> ahead on "sunday morning" from tornadoes in e south to the heat wave in the east. thee flooding in the west.
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what in the world is going on? >> osgood: je pauley this morning will be introducing us toton artist with a most unusual calling and most unusual history to match. >> if an egg is a symbol of a fresh start, then it's perfect metaphor for the lifef convict turned artist, gil batle. >> my art was my ticket to freedom. >> most guys didn't have that. >> no. >> after decades behind bars, batle has emerged to create exquisite works of sculpture carved into the shells of ostrich eggs. history and a story's hatched from these eggs later on "sunday morning.g. >> osgood: dame maggie smith is one of our most venerated performers she's playing two very different characts. mo rock could talking to her.
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new level of fame as the dowower count he is of "downton abbey." >> as seen from the outside. i'm not a beggar. >> eccentric she plays couldn't more opposite. >> i wonder if the dowagag count he is and miss shepard were stuck in an elevator what would happen. >> the dowager would take out very large hat pin.& >> ahead on "sunday morning" you don't keep this dame waiaing. >> osgood: as is our tradition and year's end this morning we'll saying hail@ and farewell to those who left us in 2015. >> there are things i like most, love, love and love. >> osgood: ery year we take time to remember the manan remarkable peoeoe who left us in the year gone by.
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> standy me ] >> osgood: later we'll say hail and farewell. all through theorning we'll look pact at the year'sop books, movies, music and more. first, here are the headlines for this december the 27th the last sunday morning of 2015. to begin subject is weather. deadly twisters that touched down in dallas area last night, mark strascmann who is in the south for our cover story has the latest. >> it's ver big. it's massive. oh! >> as many as 11 tornadoes roared through north texas overnight and at least 11 people are known dead the dallas area. damage is substantial. suburbs northeast of the city were hardest hit. >> everything is gone. so i my room and my s's. >> it's just sad. hard to see all these peoeoe's
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>> the panhandle areas of texas and oklahoma, people are now bracing for what the national weather service is calling a historic blizzard. more than a foot off snow and subzero wind chills and ice are expected beginning tonight. charlie? >> osgood: mark strsmann. offifials say a hugee wililire in coastal southern california is now more than 50% contained. blackened. the blaze briefly shutown the pacific coast t ghway. after months of silence the leader of isis has resurfaced in an audio tape released yesterday abdu al bagdadi russian and american led airstrikes will only make islamic state tougher6 now more onhe weather a new storm will soak the pacific northwest.
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rain will spread from the midwest to the northeast. looking ahead, colder and soggy in many areas.
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on average, ititakes three hundrereamericans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. it's called the wage gap. and the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations&write their own rules. hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. she gets the job done for r . i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> osgood: tornadoes ripping through texas. these pictures of dallas last night.
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at least 18 deaths from twisters and floong in the southeast. and record highs in the east. what is going on with all this very strange weather. our cover story is reported by mark strassmann. >> last christmasas buffalo looked like the north pole. this year? santa wore shorts. a few flakes finally fell last week smashing a 116-year record for the longest streak with no snow. in cities up and down the east coast, christmas eve was the warmest ever. it felt likik summer ininhe big apple. with temperatures in the 70s. >> where's the nearest beach >> this is awesome. being able to see 70 degree weathehein new york city on christmas eve, is something really cool to experience. >> one of many record highs --
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>> this month's whacky warar weather broken more than a thousand records from coast to coast. this december has been exceptional for a lot of areas of the country. you look into the northwest where the rain and snow has been nonstop. the northeast, mid atlantic, midwest, upper midwest winter on pause temperatures so far above average they will be smashing records before we're done. >> eric, what is in store? >> eric fisher is chief meteorologist for cbs station wbz-tv in boston. >> this is the most staggering thing. in the boston area we're going to see coldest winter month ever rererded and warmest winter month ever recorded in the same year. in 144 years of@ records. >> take he a look, the nation's weather p isivided in half. many eastern cities temperatures are as high as 30 degrees above normal. out west, it's colder and wetter than it's been in years.
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in oregon swallowed homes and prompted terrifying rescue missions. scientists say what's behind this weather madness in part is phenomenon that goes bacac millennia. you've heard its name, el nino know. >> it's about a year long warming that takes place along the equator in the eastern half of the tropical pacific. and it's related to changesesn the trade winds. they also are weaker when that ocean warms up. this is from the coast of outamerica to the middle of the average ocean. >> nate is a climatologist with the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. >> when was the last time you saw this rain? >> we've had very little o o this in the last four years. >> four years? >> mantua has been studying the effects of el nino know for 30 years. every four to seven years h h says, t tse pacific trade winds
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>> and when that happens, there's a massive shift in rainfall patterns in the tropics. so wet places endnd to bee really dry. and normally dry places end up getting lots of rainfall. >> this el nino know, how significant or intense is it? >> the c crent el ninin know is among the three strongest since 1950 at least. >> so strong the effects of this el nino know can be seen on every weather forecaster's radar the world over. >> this warm pat concern is not only at the center butf the pacific ocean provides tremendous amount of heat capacity to drive the whole circulation pattern, not only across united states, but around the globe. >> louis uccillinn is the director of the national weather service. he says el nino know causes the temperature of the pacific ocean to increase up to ten degrees and triggers a ripple effect
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>> simplistically, wetter than usual over here, warmer than usual over here. >> yes. wetter than normal here. and as we see the el nino know pattern evolve we should seeee a the south. so wetter and warmer up in this area here. >> as if lighthtn cue over t t last five days, killer tornadoes swept across the south killing more than 20 people from texas to tennessee. e house is gone.e. what are you goioi to do? >> i'm going to try to rebuild. >> here? >> uh-huh. >> what is worrisome about all of this? >> parts of the globe that are impacted by elel nino know t tt do suffer from those impacts. increased drying in brazil and indonesia with possibility of forest fires.
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africa, central africa and east africa, which lends itself to the increased likelihood of disease outbreaks like malaria. >> but can the alarming weather events be blamed on climate change? scientists say, not so fast. >> climate change a as couple more warmer days or makes the warmest temperatures a little bit warmer. i don't think you can just say that because it's warming world. we're seeing record warm december. you might be enhancing the normal pattern thaha would have happened anyway by a little bit. >> in california, the ocean, is that were already warming are getting even hotter. that has created a crisis foror the creatures who live in it. >> 2015 has been one for the record books. typically we rescue 600-800 animals wewee almost to 18080 >> shawn johnson directs the marine mammal center in sausalito.
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california sea lyons and first seal pups have died. >> what is going on out in their natural habitat that has brought about this crisis? >> because of water soo warm i is pushed all the feeder fish, the foraging fish for their mothers farther out to sea, deeper in the water and farther north. all the animalsave lack of food. there's not enough food right in this area for them right now. >> relief will come eventually. because historically el nino is followed by la nina characterized by cooler ocean temperatures. but at least for the next few months the world will continue to feel el nino know's effects,
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paris saying "je suis charlie." in february, isis shocked the world again posting online videos of a captured jordanian pilot being burned alive, and later the mass beheading of 1 coptic christians. we'll remember march for the crash of the germanwings jetliner. 150 lives were lost when the plane's copilot deliberately aimed the plane into the french alps. in april, a boston jury convicted marathoh bomber joe car tsarnaev. one monthh later he e s sentenced to death. may sue the duke and duchess of cambridge present their new daughter princess charlot elizabeth diana to the world. >> it's beginning to look like tonight show." >> and david letterman signed off after 33 years of late night tv. >> thank you and good night.
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>> osgood: in june, caitlin jenner former ly known as bruce jenner made her debut. and supreme court led same sex marriage. provided the druglord el c hahappo an escape from prison in july. that same month pluto was reveveed in spectacular photos snapped by a nasa spacecraft. in august, news of minnesota dentist walter palmer had killed zimbabwe's beloved cecil the lion sport triggered global outrage. the photo of 3-year-old alad kurdi's lifeless body on a turkish beach in september quickly became symbol of the world's indeference to the plight of syrian refugees. october brought an official end to china's controversisi one chilil policy.
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e instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum smoothies! only from tums >> osgood: we might see an osich egg. the perfect medium for a messagege shaped by memories. hatched in a story from jane pauley. >> at first glance they look like something wrought by he faberge. egg-shaped skip terse elegantly carved into lacy designs and so, so, delicate. t look again. and the art's true meaning comes into focus. an unsparing account of life behind bars. >> what i do a piece i actually haha to go bacac to prison
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to feel the loneliness, the anger, the fear. i have to go back there in order to -- to recreate that scene again, the brick wall, the bars. and when i look up from the egg, you know, i feel gratitude that i'm not there any more. >> gil batle spent most of his adult life e and out of california jails and prisons for fraud and forgery. yet after nearly a decade of eedom, batle finds himself drawn back to thth scenes that once defined his world. >> a lot of the eggs i have the chain gang. i use to think those aren't st 20 guys. those aree0 guys with 20 different stories. different face? >> it's impossible to do the same face. you can't make the same face. >> different faces but no expression? expressions, right.
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expressionless until the artist arrives. >> wow, right. life, yeah. i put life on that thing. >> that thing is an ostrich egg. >> first i come up with a scene for each egg. once i figure out what the three-point is i have to then figure out how i'm going to place it on the egg. in this case, i wanted to do four panels. so i divide the egg in half. then i try to find the equator. >> batle hasas had a life long obsession with the shape of eggs. and their promise of a fresh beginning. but ostrich eggs aren't exaly medium. he carves using a a high speed dental drill. the only tool that can render such astonishing detail. >> the shell on an egg is about a 16th of an inch. if you go past that 16th of an
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egg. and i think that kind of fragility is where i stand -- emotionally, i think. >> well, aren't we all? >> that's right. we all are. we a have that 16th of an inch. >> in works like "it's's yourr fault" batle charts the cycle of cruelty. the abused boy becomes an abuser himself. >> inabscond" letters from jonathan, batle recalls his absence from his son's life. >> it was his hh school graduation was coming up. and he saysyou're going to be there right, dad?" i said, "i can't, i wouldn't miss that for the world." i got arresd the next day.
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goes, batle, you got mail. and i couldn't open up that letter for a week. >> batle saysis skill designing tattoos and other works for fellow cononcts was his protection behind bars. >> that would be a prison shank. a knife. this is a toothbrush shaped into a wean. >> it's noo small irony that his talent for creating another type of artwork forging checks to support a drug addictions what kept landing him back in prison. to break the cycle he moved 7,000 miles away to a remote island in the plippines, his parents native country. where he supported himself making knickknacks for thehe tourist trade. >> i was proud of that. here you got to check this out.
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>> but his younger b bther agelio, himself an accomplished san francisco artist, prodded him to do more. >> i just melted my heart, because i knew what he could do and d s capable of doioi. well, why don't you tell your story? and he looked at me and said, like i was crazy. he said, well, who would be interested in that? interested in that. i said, i think there would be a lot of people interested in that. >> that your brother would be proud to have you be an artrtt who tells prison stories?? >> yeah. he's always been there. he -- yeah, he has never closed the door on me. >> and now the door to a future
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opened for g g batle. it's quite beautiful. >> thank you. >> the imposing ex-con who creates such delicate masterpieces which sell for $14,000 each, at age 53,3, there's so much lost time to make up. you could have had a great careers an artist. but then you wouldn't have a story to tell that you've got. >> i i't that wild? i think it was my son jonathan. i said this could not have happened years ago. my son says, no, he says, if you didn't go to prison this couldn't have happened. i used to see this bumper sticker it says "art saves lives" and i saiddhat's kinda corny, but it does. saved my life.
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we say "hail and farewell." but next -- dame maggie e ith. it's the story of america- land of the doers. doin' it. did it. done. doers built this country. the dams and the railroads. john henry was a steel drivin' man hmhm catchy. they built the golden gates and the empire states. and all this doin' takes energy -no matter who's doin'. there's all kinds of doin' up in here. or what they're doin'. what the heck's he doin? energy got us here. and it's our job to make sure there's enough to keep doers s in' the stuff doers do...
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>> when do i have the operation. >> you'll be on the way for six months. >> at my age i can't plan fa far ahead. >> it's "sunday morning" on cbs here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: that is dame maggie smith. in the 2011 movie "the best exotic marigold hotel"" these days she's besttnown for her role in television's "downton abbey" and she also has a new movie out. mo rocca has questiohs about that and more. >> the dfter this interview airs is your birthday. >> no kidding. i don't want to be reminded of that. that's the last thing i want to be reminded of. >> do you know how you're go fog celebrate? >> i thought you were going to say, do you know how old you are. >> if you want to know her age
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all that mattets is that this legend of stage and screen is still very much in her prime. >> i'm not going to stand quietly by and be crucicied. i shall give you a piece. lie is so unmusical a word. >> she onlyecently finished shooting the final season of "downton abbey," the smash hit television drama in which she steals pretty much every scene -- >> of course. >> as lady violet, dowager count he is. >> you will both admit you w we wrong. >> that isn't easy to accept because i'm never wrong. >> naturally she's savored this particular success. hof you seen any of "downton abbey" yet? >> no.
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i'm going to do all sorts of things. i'm free. >> free enough to talk with us on a recent afternoon in london. are you through with corsetz yes, i'm all through. in actual fact i have to say that i did cheat a bit. because i promised that if i sat , bolt up right i would look as though i were wearing corsets. >> so often you were not wearing a corset. >> don't tell anybody. >> i came all the way from new york. this is an exclusiveve >> i ion't want it to be put around. i was tortured every day. >> the show's final season premiers next week. don't worry, no spoilerer here. are youuound by contract not to reveal what happens in the last episode? >> yes, i am. but to speak truth i can't remember.
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just in case. do not leave it in your trailer. >> that would be amazing box set bobos watching the c ct of "downton abbey" eat their script. >> she has had her fill of the dowager counteses is which makes playing while she's gone opposite direction for her newest role. the movie "the lady in the van." >> don't take any notice of what he says. >> for this movie you spent a lot of time in a van. >> yes. yes, i did. >> dame maggie plays miss shepard a real life woman who spent last 15 years of her life living in her van. >> shut the door. >> parked in the driveway of play wright alan bennett's home. >> i cannot beginning to imagine
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reality. of whaha alan had t t cope with. >> the film is written by bennett and directed by nicholas hytner, both friends of dame maggie. >> she, miss shepardrd morphed into maggie. and maggie morphed into shepard. >> you can't see miss shepard. >> shepard. >> filming 12 hours dby in the van in the rain in the cold. >> yes. >> what do you think miss shepard would think of maggie's performance? >> well she'd think it only right that she should be portrayed by england's leading actress really. she was a person of great importance >> what are you doing? looking at my things. >> indeed miss shepard is i am peer just, but also sympathetic
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won't reveal here. reminder, that that person on that street corner is there day after day may have quite a story. >> i know. you pass all the time people st on cardboard onn the street. you know, she had a van. >> she at least had that. >> you see these people are just in dooooays and it's just -- i mean, what do they do all day? >> american audiences first met maggie smith on broadway. when she was one of the new faces of 1956, and sang this comedic ditty. what was your impression of new york when you first got there? >> the thing that astonished me more than anything was the food.
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rationing, food rationing in england. i was really a nervous wreck because it would be mountainous. and also it was -- it seemed very, very bright. it was like being in the movies instead of watching them. >> she would make plenty of movies. and win two oscars alongng the way. >> three gins and one tonic. >> catch up on the tonic. >> but her first love was the stage. at britain's national theater her company stars would include the great laurence olivier. and her@ first husnd the late robert stevens. >> is it hard to be an actor married to another actor. >> it is. don't ever do it. >> no, i'm not. why is it hideous? >> i think it's because when i was married to robert we spent
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national theater. there wasn't any other existence. it was too close. it was great, you know. lot of it was great. lot of it wasn't. >> the couple divorced her secondarriage to play wright beverly cross was much happier. he died in 1998, not long before the harry potter movies would introduce maggie smith to a new generation of fans. >> welcome to hogwarts. perhaps it would be more use physical i transform you into a pocket watch. >> for the lady in the van, dane maggie has been dominated for a golden globe. she's already won three of those. have you heard this expressioio egot? >> no. >> egot is emmy, grammy, oscar, tony like if you win all four. >> i see.
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>> i think that's never going to happen. that's never going to happen. >> well, i beg to differ. because you know what's complelely delight envelope.e. >> what? >s you on "carol burnett." >> that's going back so far. >> dane maggie appeared on the carol burnett show back in 1975. >> classz we were only too happy to refresh her memory. >> no, you're wrong >> i don't believe that. i remember those crazy clothes. that was the guy who -- >> bob macace. >> yeah. oh, do stop it. >> then it goes into a dance. i never want to make you
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ceo cheers. 'tis the season for bloody mary. most of us know the drink, but where they come from, short history from david, our man in paris. >> t ts is harry's new york bar in paris. it's called new york because it really was a bar in new york that the original owner had dismantled and shied to paris a little over a hundred years ago. >> it's an old bar since 19th century. >> harry was added later when harry, that's him there, he bought it after the first guy went broke. probably from shipping that bar to paris. anyway, this obviously american bar has a singular, one might even say historic distinction. >> my son went to merrimac college, my daughter went to
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banners and they're up on the wall. >> that's not actually the distinction i was referring to. this bar is historic because back in the 1920sa bartender here mixed worcester sauce with tobasco, salt and pepper. >> freshemon juice. >> mixed it. >> i love the way he does this. don't forget the vodka. and tomato juice, that's key. harry's is where the bloody mary was born. the bloody mary, a brunch staple for when you need a little hair of the dog. in 1920s as prohibition closed bars in the united states some american bartenders came to france looking for work. they brought a new idea to the french, cocktails, mixed drinks, to a country used to drink wine. at the same time, paris was a refuge for a lot of russians
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revolution back home andndhey brought this new stuff called vodka. now there are a lot of different versions of how the drink was created. most widely accepted is that a barman at harry's named fernan found vodka too bland he added tomato juice and spices to give it some flavor as the henry family from massachusetts can attest. >> very good. >> perfectly spiced. >> i is bloody because of the tomato juice. mayor preis believed to be somebody's girlfriend but after a few of these who really remembers thdetails. it's a versatile d dnk that inspires many interpretations like at a mexican restaurant it's made with tequila. >> at sake it's made with the japanese vodka and wasabi. >> it's bloody makz three generations later harry's still owned by the macelhone family and they claim they sold more
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>> everybody wants to try a bloody mary at harry's bar. >> don't you? > osgood: coming up, all in the family.
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else. >sgood: steve hartman this morning as update on the story he brought us last year. all about a family man, whose family just keeps growing. >> generally speaking, if you're a kid growing up in pittsburgh, like jessie and josh lyle, the last place you ever want to be is in a courtroom across the table from detective jack mook. mook is a byhe book, no nonsense, chew 'em up, spet 'em out, 22 year veteran of the force. outside of work he's a committed bachelor, a man's man. who had never so much as let a vidalia see his soft side for
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at the steel city boxing gym teaching the sport to under privileged kids. >> most of the kids that come in this grim are street kids.s. i'm not going to hurt you. many have been born into poverty. >> kids like jessie and his older brother, josh. long before their date in court jack had been working with them. he really liked these kids and knew the feeling was mutual. so when they just stopped showing up at the gym one day jack went out and found them. >> he was asking me about it and then i just cried. >> what jack didn't know, what no one knew till that moment, was just howad these k ks had it. they were in a foster home with foster parents who jack says were extremely abusive and neglectful. >> they have had it as worse as any other kid that's e er lived in the city of pittsburgh. living conditions wise. i had enough of it.
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his own hands. cashed in some favors and got the kids placed in a new home. >> you want something else to eat? >> his. for jack it's been quite an adjustment. >> i'm in here trying to learn my culinary skills, brother. >> i get the sense that you're really loving this. >> yeah. it's awesome. it's the best thing i ever did in my life. >> at least it was the best thing. til the day he went to court and did one better. adopted the boys and made them mooks. you happy? >> after this story firstired in 2014, we got a lot of e-mail. a surprising amount from women who wanted to meet this guy. >> did you e-mail u are you one of those? >> no. no. >> mary said she saw the story but she met him in a bar. >> did you go to the bar because you knew he'd be there? >> yes. i am -- i am answering hobbestly.
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summer. she came with three of her own, now jack and boys are part of the brady bunch, a family none of them could have ever imagined just a few years ago. jack eecially. >> i thought being single was fun because you don't have any responsibilities. but when you're single you don't realize what you're missing. i'm glad i let herreak through that barrier and take me away from that life. >> sounds like it wasn't just the boys were rescued. live well, and take of what makes you, you. right down to your skin with aveeno aveeno daily moisturizing lotion withhe goodness of active naturals oat and 5 vital nutrients forr healthier looking skin in just one day. healthy skin equals beautiful skin. and for shower softness, add the body wash, too!
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hail and farewell. omar shariff, you were brilliant and handsome. easy smile, dark eyes that spoke of deeperpassions. as dr. zhivago you love for lara burned hot. melted our hearts, farewell. farewetl to maureen o'hara. feisty, fiery-haired irish beauty. >> i prefer the company of men except for maureen'hara, john wayne once said. anita ekberg. three things i like most, love, love and love. >> ciao bella. >> would you please give me a hand? >> osgood: fond farewl to
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stage marilyn monroe as 7-year-old. >> you've got a lot of animal magnetism. when a man loves a woman woman ] >> ceo to percy sledge. >> i'm not pretending. >> jackie collins your stey romances always kept us coming back f f more. >> find the building. i'll leave you there. >> osgood: david canary, you kept us coming back to "all my children" for 26 years as the ruthless adam chandler. you made soap opera history. goodbye to al molinaro, big al on happy days.
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to "laugh in" gary owens and judy carne she was one funny lady. >> change your mind with their brand new pitted bruce possibly. they're still rather badly wrinkled you know. >> osgood: stan freburg gave prunes a whole new live as the funny fruit. farewell to you my brilliant funny friend. and little jimmy dickens, the tater was a big talln't. family? >> do you have lot of sisters. >> i have a lot of sisters. sister mary monica. >> anne meara you were very funny as the tall irish girl who married the short jewish guy. >> if anybody told me i'd be happier than i was in younger years, i'd never believe you. >> you kept us laughing for 60 years. >> don't cut it toward you.
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no, you do the coffee i'll do the bagel. >> osgood: speaking of bagels, if you're eating one now in boise, bozeman or kalamazoo, you can think danielle thompson. his bagel machine spread the love and the cream cheese from coast to coast. forrest bird loved to fly. and to tinker, too. >> i went to the hardware store got a nor nobody you can see this right here. the patient would take push down like this on the door nobody blow their lungs up. >> ventilators he invented have breathed life into countless patients around the world. thank you, dr. bird. >> three, two, one. ceo jane briggs hart was a pilot, too. she dreamed of blasting into space on mercury rocket: and passed all the tests to qualify. but nasa wasn't ready for a woman astronaut. >> you don't think a male test pilot would be suddenly disturbed to find a woman in the cockpit? >> i would hope mutual training for them.
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him. ceo she had the right stuff. better tackaberry blake. blue army fighter planes during world war ii one of the first women to do so. she had the right stuff, too. mary doyle keefe was a telephone operator during the war. she posed for norman rockwell's "rosie the riveter" in 1943. >> i apologize but i made you very large. >> the larger than life portrait inspires women still. >> today it's still a man's world. and just look at it. move over, gentlemen, maybe you could use some help. this is marlene sanders. >> osgood: marlene sanders led the way for women in broadcast
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evelyn furtsch and her relay team printed to olympic gold in los angeles in 1932. she led the way in sports. ceo annis general son was a tough blocker and tough sport. >> there's general son with another block. >> she was quite a jammer, too. >> our newest colleague for glorious, fearless frank gifford. >> farewell frank gifford. a starry severe for the new york giants he was knocked out cold in 1960 by no. 60 of the philadelphia eagles. concrete chuck as he was known also left the field this year. their historic collision was captured back then by this still photo. cbs' tony verna would change that by giving us the instant replay.
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america is a special game ceo ed sabol used all of hollywood's tricks to bring football's bruising drama into our living rooms. >> the game is beautiful, i love it, that's the way i want to portray it. >> he made football a national obsession. you can thank him or blame him for that. yogi berra loved baseball, passionately and exuberantly as a player and a manager. >> when you come the a fork in the road, take it. i don't which seemed to capture something true while making no sense. used to be. stuart scott shared his
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koach the beverly hillbilly's gentleman jalopy and this. >> the batmobile. shiny, sleek, super charged. the better to proceed pole super heroes batman and robin on their prime fighting missions. george barris died this year at 89 but batmobile lives on. >> even occasionally other caped crew cadeers on high minded missions. his batman brought bit of joy to very ill children who was real super hero. so was 19-year-old lauryn hill who lost her battle with brain cancer but not before fulfilling her dream. >> this has been the best day i've ever had. >> i wish we could get in touch with superman. >> jack larson, your jimmy olson was no super hero but did he have a super hero friend.
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girl, too. and yvonne craig, who astonished everyone every time she came to save the day. on "star trek" she used her charms to seduce captain kirk. those charms didn't work so well on the ever-analytical mr. spock. >> worked out infallible method for assuring permanent mail fidelity. nothing. >> a vulcan salute to you, leonard nimoy. >> live long and frogs per. >> osgood: long overdue salute to you calvin spann. one of the cuss key gee airmen he flew 26 combat missions in world war ii. >> the negro pilot has proofed himself a capable, fearless fighter. dangerous and deadly to the enemy and able defender of the american way of life. >> osgood: but he could not get hired as a pilot after the war.
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did not think of himself as a black leader but he was one. the first african american ever elected to the u.s. senate by popular vote. >> i extend to you my profound gratitude for giving me the supreme moment of my life. >> osgood: julian bond was a born leader, very young georgia legislator who came to the national stage at the democratic convention in 1968. >> i'm deeply honored by having my name placed in nomination as the vice president shall candidate. unfortunately i have not yet reached the age. >> osgood: he championed the cause of civil rights for the rest of his life. >> thou shalt not sin against equality era. >> osgood: and might have been president had he chosen to run.
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the national stage during the watergate hearings. >> are you aware of listening devices that were installed in the oval offers? >> yes, sir. >> osgood: and stayed there as senator, presidential candidate and actor. >> senior captains don't start something this dangerous. >> osgood: there are many ways to serve your country. >> i'm beau biden. and joe biden is my dad. >> osgood: beau biden served his country faithfully and well for far too short a time. farewell. stand by me. >> osgood: ben e. king, your song gives us hope in our darkest hours. stand by me nicholas winton gave humanity hope in very dark hour. he rescued 66ed children from the horrors of the hole cast. >> why did you keep it secret for so long? >> i didn't keep it secret.
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>> osgood: thank up, sir nicholas, and thank you bob simon for telling that story and so many others honestly and eloquently here at cbs news. you were family. as were you producer, harry radliffe and you sandy socolow you helped walter cronkite take us all to the moon. >> ray gandolf's subject this morning. >> osgood: smart sports stories helped to get us started. you were family, too. >> what varied gifts they gave us, the het rock. case. he sold million of them. horst brandstatter sold nearly three billion of these, play mobile pirates and doctors and knights. done featherstone passed flags particular into pink flamingos. and architect michael graves
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toasters can be as beautiful as towers in the right hands. robert loggia played the piano with his feet. a little tune that will cheer us up for years to come. >> just a song at twilight. >> osgood: oliver sacks explored the training paradox of the human brain with human, affection and never ending curiosity. >> i don't know why music is so powerful. it's a great mystery. >> osgood: farewell dr. sacks. and farewell to e.l. doctorow who took us to earlier eras with his eloquent pen. >> in fiction there are no borders.
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>> osgood: journalist david carr who explained our modern media world with brilliance and passion. goodbye to john forbes nash whose beautiful mind inspired a movie. and to charlestownes, whose brilliant harnessed the power of light. the lacers he developed changed our world forever. joel spia's invention let us dim the lights once in awhile. >> like to make a song -- albert maysles was glad he said hello in is the 64. >> i put my hand over the phone and said to my brother, do you know who they are? and he said, yeah. >> cynthia lennon became famous as john's wife, that couldn't have been easy. mrs. murphy scannedlized the country when she married a presidential hopeful in 1963. >> new york's governor
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public exposure will turn odds his way before the republican convention next year. >> goodbye, happy. goodbye to less see gore who gave us a hit song for when we are sad. you would cry too if it happened to you donna douglas as elly may clampett, kept us laugh can for nine seasons on "the beverly hillbillies." which featured a band called "the enemies" in 1965. a band that would become three dog night. singer cory wells died this year. it was fun while it lasted. jack ely, his song was so scandalous in 1963 it was investigated by the fbi.
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meant, either. clark terry, no need to call in the fbi. what a remarkable band of musicians left us this year. allan toussaint. buddy emmons, ornette coleman, phil woods. cynthia robinson the queen of funk. she played a mean horn with sly and the family stone. bb kick, how can we even begin to thank you for all the good times. you were, are and always will be the king of the blues. james horner, your talent was titanic.
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as will the moments, great and small, given to us by those we came to think of as family. dick van pattete the ever reliable tv dad. >> it's only natural that guys get interested in girls as they get older. >> osgood: roger rees. the ever predictable tvcad. >> you'ree welcome. >> osgood: richard dysart. >> let's move on. daniel von bargen. he played george's terrible boss. >> do you know who i am? i'm moereen. >> a ax rocco played a mob boss in the god father, goodbye to him. and to taylor negron. and rick ducommun. >> this is walter.
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meeting you here, my dear. >> osgood: patrick mcnee you were dashing on "the avengersism. suzannerough as the littlest partridge. you were cute. sosoere you, ellen albertini. >> osgood: goodbye to james best, hazard county's bumbling sheriff. and to martin millnez you don't gettyourself get emotionally involved. his cop was a real pro. farewell to rod taylor, who battled hitchcock's birds. >> let the cartoto begin! >> osgood: gilbert lewis, peewee's king of cartoons.
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remembered best for starring in a movie that was one of the worst. >> you mean it came from up there? >> yeah, it's counterpart. >> i want to create indisputable masterpiece once in my lifetime. >> osgood: christopher lee, your villains and vampires will never die. and neither will wes craven's creepy creations, he left us screaming this year. as will gunnar hanson who wielded t tt terrible chain saw in texas and died quietly on the coast of maine. burt shavitz kept bees quietly in the maine woods even after he became famous for the lip balm and beauty products he and his bees helped produce. he buzzed off this year. au revoir to paul prudhomme.
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spice up our lives. chuck williams provided the cookware. >> i'm a born chef. i love to shop. >> osgood: put her stamp of approval on lots of things which could be personalized for free. farewellllo betty willis s o gave us this fabulous sign. who are you going to call? >> ghost busters! so long. she said itttarted folk music revolution. so long it's been good.
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preoccupations with 2015. in our social media driven world. others may view the word of t the year as progressive and the youngest among us will just see it as life as they have always known it. i take it as a visual reminder that some wonderful things happened this year. yes, we faced tragedies, ruthless terrorism and perplexing political movements. but let's not forget we also had reasons to cry from happiness. when the supreme court rule that gay people deserve equal dignity in the eyes of the law, and granted same-sex calms the right to marry, many of us shed tears. bearing witness to something we only darar to hope we'd see in our lifetime. while the conflict over where and how to place syrian refer few geese continues, here is story to choke you up in a good way. a picture of this 3-year-old
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pens on the street of beirut while carrying his sleeping daughter went viral. online donations made it possible for him too open three local businesses and hire 16 refugees. he gave away $25,000 to loved ones in syria. we heard a lot about police misconductctn 2015, but you may not have heard this story two. texas cops pulled over a man and saw the driver's young daughters weren't in booster seats. this man had no home and no money. instead d fining him, the officers drove straight to wal-mart and bought three hot pink car seats for the girls. are you cruising yes? perhaps closer to home you can celebrate the fact that drinking coffee can help you live longer and drinking wine could help control diabetes. we've all had our moving moments this year. i wrote my first book and my 3-year-old pot tree trained himself. perhaps you ran your first marathon or met your beloved or
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fitted sheetet there is such goodness in our world, such happiness in our livesf we take the time to recognize it. here's hoping that your 2016 will be anotherear filild withh many tears of joy. >> osgood: on i don't john dickerson in washington on what's ahead on "face the >> dickerson: good morning, charles. in the year of the outsider we're going to start to dr. ben carson and bernie sanders the gogog to get a little perspective steven colbert and kelly. >> osgood: thank you. we'll be watching. the subject of things to watch ououdavid edelslsin has chosen few movies worth your attention, you can see his reviews on our website. and next week here on "sunday morning" -- >> you're going to fix it?
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