captioning funded by cbs and ford-- built for the road ahead. >> stahl: there are close to 850,000 of them in the united states, twice the number of atm's. the new slot machines, the main attraction in casinos, are like high tech video games, and states across america are increasingly relying on them to raise revenue-- 38 states and growing, including pennsylvania. but governor rendell didn't appreciate some of our questions about it. >> you guys don't get that! >> stahl: i do get it. >> you're simpletons. you're idiots, if you don't get that.

>> kroft: when most people think of brazil, they think of its passion and excellence in soccer, not of skyscrapers in sao paulo, the financial hub of a fledgling economic superpower. they think of the pulsating beat of the samba and carnival, not commodities or the world's largest cattle industry. most powerful country in south america? >> g.d.p.-wise, we are bigger than all of the other countries together. this is it. hello, time for americans to wake up. >> mr. wahlberg. >> logan: mark wahlberg has become a powerhouse in the entertainment world, a highly sought-after actor who is also executive producer of several hit series on tv. in his film, "the fighter," he plays a rough boxer from massachusetts who overcomes long odds. but wahlberg's own life story may be even better.

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>> stahl: it wasn't that long ago that, if you wanted to gamble, you had to travel a long way. today, to shoot craps or play slots, all you have to do is get in your car-- there's probably a casino in your state, or right next door. as we first reported in january, there is now casino gambling in 38 states, which use the revenue from gambling to help solve their bloated budget deficits. the main attraction at these gambling halls is now the new slot machines. there are close to 850,000 of them in the united states-- twice the number of atm's. we americans spend more money on slots than on movies, baseball and theme parks combined. but with the slots, there is a

greater potential for a dangerous side effect-- gambling addiction, as more people are addicted to slot machines than any other form of gambling. this is what slot machines used to look like, where you pull the handle and hope for three of a kind. this is what they look like today. the modern slots are like high- tech video games that play music and scenes from tv shows. you can play hundreds of lines at once, and instead of pulling a handle, you bet by pushing buttons, which means each bet can be completed in as little as three and a half seconds. it looks like great fun, but it can be dangerously addictive. >> natasha schull: whether or not it's their intention, the gambling industry is designing machines that can addict people. >> stahl: m.i.t. anthropology professor natasha schull has studied gambling addiction for

over 15 years. she's interviewed gamblers, casino owners, and slot machine designers. do you think that most people would even think that a machine could addict you? that a machine could do the same thing that a drug could? >> schull: what addiction really has to do is with the speed of rewards. and these machines, if they're packing 1,200 hands per hour into play, you're being exposed... you could see that as being exposed to a higher dose. >> stahl: a higher dose, says schull, because all that speed means more bets, and that means more excitement. and no machine is better for that than the penny slot, the most popular game on the casino floor. because the bets are small, you can place hundreds of them at a time. >> schull: another core aspect of the addictiveness is their continuous nature. you're not interrupted by anything-- you're not waiting for the horses to run, you're

not waiting for the guy next to you to choose his card to put down, there's no roulette wheel spinning. it's just you and the machine. it's a continuous flow without interruption. >> sandi hall: i found that the machines were wonderful. i loved the excitement. i loved the people, i loved the camaraderie, the high fives when you win. it was just very exciting. >> stahl: sandi hall lives only a short drive from thousands of slot machines in rhode island and connecticut. married with two daughters, she worked in a bookstore, and used to look at the casinos as an entertaining break. but eventually, she was playing slots so much, she burned through her retirement funds. >> hall: my every thought and every being, if i wasn't at the casino, i was figuring out how i was going to get there, where was i going to get the money. >> stahl: you know, you sound like a heroin addict. >> hall: it takes your soul, it takes your humanity. you drive home, pounding the steering wheel, promising yourself you're never going to go again, you're never going to do it again. and you know that you're going down, and you're going down, and you're going down.

i became... from a nice person, i became a manipulative, deceitful, lying person. >> marilyn lancelot: lies just manufacture themselves. you didn't even have to think about it. >> stahl: marilyn lancelot, another slot addict, ended up embezzling over a quarter- million dollars from her employer in phoenix, arizona. >> lancelot: my daughters lived within... two houses away. they did not know i was stealing money or gambling, until one day, seven police cars drove into my yard and took me away in handcuffs. that's how they found out. >> stahl: handcuffs? >> lancelot: yeah. >> schull: this is gambling for gambling's sake, and the aim is not to win a jackpot. >> stahl: she's not talking about most people who go to casinos; she's only taking about addicted gamblers. are you saying they would rather stay in the game than win the money? >> schull: not only am i saying that, but i found instances where gamblers who won a jackpot then became irritated because it

stopped the flow of play. >> stahl: researchers at the university of waterloo in canada measured how players respond physiologically while they gamble, and showed that the new machines can make them think they're winning even when they're not. the gambler almost always gets some money back-- if he puts in a dollar, he might get back 50 cents. but the sounds and flickering lights trick his brain into thinking he came out ahead. the constant feeling of winning creates so much pleasure, says natasha schull, that regular players can slip into a trance- like state, a place she calls the "zone." >> schull: one gambler told me that when he's in the zone, he couldn't remember his children's name. >> hall: you go into that trance, that zone, that box-- nobody can touch you. you have escaped from reality. no one can ask you for anything. >> stahl: when you sat in front of those machines, did you get into the zone? did you have a buzz? >> lancelot: i was having a love

affair with that machine. that was my love. if anybody came near it, touched it-- "back off. don't touch my machine." it was the same as a kiss from a lover. >> stahl: really? >> lancelot: it was sweet. sweet. >> stahl: and yet, not everyone is convinced the machines addict people. listen to howard shaffer, the director of the harvard medical school division on addiction, the man the gambling industry loves to quote. and your position is machines are not addictive, that machines, inanimate objects are not addictive? >> howard shaffer: machines didn't make me do it. if slot machines caused addiction, then most people who played slot machines would develop addiction, and it's the opposite. >> stahl: but at one point, you said that slot machines were the "crack cocaine" of gambling. >> shaffer: i did say that. >> stahl: and how does that square with what you're telling me today? >> shaffer: not everybody who uses crack cocaine becomes addicted. >> stahl: yeah, but nobody's going to sit here and try to tell me crack cocaine isn't addictive. and if this is like crack cocaine, the conclusion is, it's

addictive. >> shaffer: i don't come to the same conclusion because... >> stahl: how could you not? >> shaffer: ...because a majority of people that have used cocaine have not developed cocaine addiction. only a small minority have, and the same would be true with gambling. >> stahl: the problem is, that that small minority that does get addicted is hit hard. >> dr. robert breen: you are getting a little dose of gambling in your brain every three seconds. it's a gambling i.v., and there's a drip, drip, drip. >> stahl: drs. robert breen and henry lesieur are gambling addiction specialists at rhode island hospital. they've treated 1,300 slot addicts who, when they try to stop, look like heroin addicts in withdrawal. >> dr. henry lesieur: and they're coming in and they're quite literally... they have shakes. >> stahl: really? they physically... >> lesieur: they're physically having these responses. and you tell yourself, they've got to be on something, and it turns out that they're withdrawing from the gambling.

>> stahl: slots, in particular? >> lesieur: right. >> stahl: and yet, state after state is turning to slots as an easy way to raise revenue and increase jobs. and no state has been more aggressive in luring gaming in the last few years than pennsylvania, where the opening of the sugar house in september made philadelphia the largest u.s. city to house a casino. so far, there are ten gambling halls in the state with nearly 27,000 slot machines. former governor ed rendell has championed the casinos. >> governor ed rendell: look, gambling is not anything we should say, "oh, thank the lord, we have gambling." but it is a decent way to raise revenue, where the upsides that's produced is significantly better than any downside that comes from it. >> stahl: you said there was downsides to gaming. what are they? >> rendell: the biggest downside is that some people lose their paychecks. but understand, lesley, they're

not losing their paychecks because pennsylvania instituted gaming. those people were losing their paychecks in atlantic city, in delaware at the racetracks, or in west virginia. >> stahl: so why not lose it here? >> rendell: well, if they were going to lose it anyway, let's get the upside. we were getting all the downside and none of the upside. >> stahl: the upside, he says, is the $1 billion the state got in gambling revenue last year, which was used to provide a $200-a-home property tax reduction, plus more relief for senior citizens. >> rendell: people have been gambling since organized society was formed on the banks of the tigris and euphrates. they were gambling. and they will gamble as long as there's life on this planet. and that's a fact. >> les bernal: no one is saying that people can't gamble. this is about government using gambling to prey on human weakness for profit. >> stahl: les bernal is head of the national organization, stop predatory gambling. he and former massachusetts state senator sue tucker have been fighting a move to bring casinos and slot parlors to the bay state.

>> bernal: we are in the worst economic crisis since the great depression, and the daily voice of government to most americans is "we're going to push casinos and we're going to push lottery tickets." >> stahl: well, but you have a situation where states are desperate. they're way over budget, they have to find revenue somewhere. they know people will gamble. >> sue tucker: as a revenue raiser, it defies every principle. it's regressive-- in other words, it takes far more money out of lower income people's pockets than higher income. it is cannibalistic-- in other words, it eats other forms of revenue. when you have your citizens dumping $2 billion down the slots, they're not buying a new car and you lose that tax. >> stahl: you brought these casinos to the state. do you ever just say to yourself, "oh, my god, i'm... there are a lot of people who are suffering, and they're taking whatever money they have..." >> rendell: lesley, you don't listen. you don't listen. >> stahl: "...and they're throwing it away in these casinos." and do you ever just say... >> rendell: lesley, you don't listen.

anyone who has that bent would be doing it in other places had pennsylvania not legalized gambling. >> stahl: the counter-argument is that you're creating new gamblers, and lots of new gamblers. >> rendell: we're not creating new gamblers. >> stahl: well, because it's down the street. >> rendell: those people play the lottery. they bet on football. how much money is bet on the super bowl? >> stahl: people are losing money for the state to get its revenue. they're losing money. >> rendell: let me answer this. you... you've... i've always... i've known you for two or three decades, you're a very smart person. >> stahl: but not now. >> rendell: but you're not getting it. >> stahl: i'm dumb now. >> rendell: you're not getting it. those people would lose that money anyway. don't you understand? >> stahl: our pressing him on this point led to this. >> rendell: you guys don't get that! you're simpletons. you're idiots if you don't get that. >> stahl: we couldn't figure out why all the emotion. but his main point was that gambling is good entertainment, and people should be allowed to make their own decisions about it. but since the first casino opened in pennsylvania five years ago, calls to gambling

addiction hotlines in the state have tripled. sandi hall says her problems didn't start till three casinos opened near her. >> hall: i cannot read my local newspaper without having full- page ads of upcoming events and slot play and free this and free that. the exposure is phenomenal because of the proximity of three casinos. >> tucker: fewer than 25% of massachusetts residents went out of state to gamble. >> stahl: but that's a lot of people. >> tucker: 75% didn't. >> stahl: i know, but 25%... >> tucker: that's the group industry wants. they want the 75% that can get on the "t" and go to a nearby casino and get in trouble with gambling. that's the playbook. >> cbs moneywatch update, sponsored by spiriva handihaler. >> mitchell: good evening. london-based banking giant hsbc has announced cuts of 10,000

jobs worldwide, including in the u.s. today's average gas price of $3.71 a gallon is almost a dollar higher than a year ago. and a box office photo finish: "the smurfs" and "cowboys & aliens" tie for number one. i'm russ mitchell, cbs news.

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>> kroft: for decades, the joke about brazil has been that it's the country of the future-- and always will be. despite enormous natural resources, it has long displayed an uncanny ability to squander its vast potential. now, it's beginning to look like brazil might have the last laugh. while most of the world is consumed with debt and unemployment, brazil is trying to figure out how to manage an economic boom. as we first reported last december, it was the last country to enter the great recession, the first to leave it, and is poised to overtake france and britain as the

world's fifth-largest economy. with the world cup and the olympics on the way, brazil is about to make its grand entrance on the global stage. ( chanting ) when most people think of brazil, they think of its passion and excellence in soccer, not of skyscrapers in sao paulo, the financial hub of a fledgling economic superpower. they think of the pulsating beat of the samba and carnival, not commodities or the world's largest cattle industry. they see the beaches of ipanema and copacabana and breathtaking vistas. that's quite a view. >> eike batista: yes, incredible. >> kroft: not brazilian tycoons like eike batista, who has the best view in rio, not to mention a net worth of $27 billion. how do most americans see brazil? >> batista: they think buenos aires is the capital of brazil, so they mix us with other countries around south america.

>> kroft: the most powerful country in south america? >> batista: g.d.p.-wise, we are bigger than all the other countries together. and you know, in the last 16 years, brazil has put its act together. this is it-- hello, time for americans to wake up. >> kroft: with most of the world's economies stagnant, brazil's grew 7%, three times faster than america. it is a huge country, slightly larger than the continental u.s., with vast expanses of arable farmland, an abundance of natural resources, and 14% of the world's fresh water. 80% of its electricity comes from hydropower. it has the most sophisticated bio-fuels industry in the world, and for its size, the world's greenest economy. brazil is already the largest producer of iron ore in the world, and the world's leading exporter of beef, chicken, orange juice, sugar, coffee and tobacco, much of it bound for

china, which has replaced the u.s. as brazil's leading trade partner. >> batista: and brazil has the size to match the china's appetite. >> kroft: you have everything... >> batista: it's a big dragon on... on the other side. >> kroft: you have everything they need. >> batista: yeah, you need a brazil to basically fulfill the chinese needs. >> kroft: batista, who has interests in mining, transportation, and oil and gas, is building a huge super-port complex north of rio, with chinese investment, that will accommodate the world's largest tankers and speed delivery of iron ore and other resources to asia. but it's not just commodities that are driving the brazilian boom. the country has a substantial manufacturing base and a large auto industry. aviation giant embraer is the world's third-largest aircraft manufacturer, behind boeing and airbus, and a main supplier of regional jets to the u.s. market. eike batista says the one thing that brazil could use more of is skilled labor. >> batista: we have to create more engineers.

in my oil company, i'm importing americans to weld our platforms. >> kroft: to weld the platforms? >> batista: yes. there's a lack of welders. we are walking into a phase of almost full employment. this country has created 1.5 million jobs. it's unbelievable. >> kroft: brazil has seen periods of prosperity before, only to have the bubbles burst. it spent billions in the '50s and '60s moving its capital to a barren savannah near the middle of the country, where it built brasilia, a futuristic city right out of the jetsons. then, it borrowed billions more to develop the country's interior. corruption and ineptitude eventually led to a financial collapse, 2,000% inflation, and, at the time, the largest financial rescue package in the history of the international monetary fund. >> president luiz inácio lula da silva: bom dia, bom dia. >> kroft: then, a few years later, this man walked into the

president's office. president luiz inaácio lula da silva, known simply as "lula," is a former metal worker with a fourth-grade education and a doctorate in charisma. when he was elected eight years ago on his fourth try, lula was a firebrand labor leader with socialist tendencies. some predicted another hugo chavez. but he left office at the end of last year with a 77% approval rating, and much of the credit for turning the country around. we talked to him at the presidential residence in brasilia. when you took office, there were many businessmen, both in brazil and abroad, who were very nervous about you, who thought that you were a socialist and that you were going to take the country sharply to the left. yet these people now are among your biggest supporters. how did that happen? >> lula ( translated ): look, every once in a while, i joke that a metal worker with a socialist background had to become president of brazil to

make capitalism work here. because we were a capitalist society without capital. and if you look at the banks' balance sheets for this year, you will see that the banks have never made so much money in brazil as they have during my government, the big companies have never sold as many cars as they have during my government. but the workers have also made money. >> kroft: how have you managed to do that? >> lula ( translated ): i have found out something amazing. the success of an elected official is in the art of doing what is obvious. it is what everyone knows needs to be done, but some insist on doing differently. >> kroft: one thing obvious to lula was the social and economic chasm separating brazil's rich and poor. he gave the poor families a monthly stipend of $115 just for

sending their children to school and taking them to the doctors. the infusion of cash helped lift 21 million people out of poverty and into the lower middle class, creating an untapped market for first-time buyers of refrigerators and cars. but he was also far friendlier to business than anyone expected, encouraging growth and development, and maintaining conservative fiscal policies and tight banking regulations that left brazil unscathed by the world financial crisis. >> eduardo bueno: lula was the right man at the right time, it seems. you have to admit... to admit it, you know? he's... he's a kind of pop star. >> kroft: eduardo bueno is a colorful commentator and best- selling author of popular brazilian history. what's his secret? >> bueno: he's street-wise. i guess you can say that. he... he knows people, he knows the feeling, he knows what he want, he knows how to deal with the rich, he... he charms president obama. >> kroft: and he also charmed the international committees

that awarded brazil the 2016 olympics and the world cup of 2014, political victories that announced the country's arrival as an international player, and will present some challenges for brazil's new president. she is dilma rousseff, lula's former chief of staff and his handpicked successor, who was elected in october because he was ineligible for a third term. there are people that believe that, once you are gone, brazil may revert to its old ways. will the momentum continue, once you leave office at the end of the year? >> lula ( translated ): if there is something i am proud of, it is to have told my people that we are not second-class citizens, that we can get things done, we can believe in ourselves. and then, people have started to believe. >> kroft: there are still some non-believers. given its checkered record for living up to its promise, the rap against brazil is that it

lacks ambition. it is called "the brazilian way"-- "why do something today that you can pay someone to do the day after tomorrow." brazilians put up with incredibly high taxes on almost everything, have a high tolerance for corruption, bureaucratic red tape, and according to eduardo bueno, harbor a secret love affair with incompetence. president charles de gaulle of france once said that brazil is not a serious country. do you believe that? is brazil a serious country now? >> bueno: it's not a serious country, in several instances, because they say they're going to do something, and then don't do something. here in rio de janeiro, you can invite someone to your house, they say they're going to come, and they don't show up. and they don't think it's... no, who cares? but how can you do business in a loose way? how can you run a country in a loose way? >> kroft: while many in brazil's cities lust for first-world status, the third world is never far away. for decades, brazil ignored the

festering slums known as favelas, which wrap around rio, overlooking some of the most valuable real estate in the city. they have been staging areas for street crime against tourists, and safe havens for drug gangs so well armed that they brought down a police helicopter a few years ago with heavy machine gun fire. finally, after years of looking the other way, the military police have begun to move in. last fall, some parts of rio have been a battle zone, with drug traffickers burning buses near some of the sports stadiums. but so far, the police have pacified 17 of the most dangerous favelas. and there are 23 more to go. >> batista: this is a revolution. i myself did not believe this three years ago. there is a solution for the... for the slums all over brazil. >> kroft: but there are also some massive problems with infrastructure. if the road to brazil's future is long and wide, it is also jammed with traffic and filled with potholes.

90% of the roads in the country are still unpaved, and in the cities, there is not much in the way of public transportation. and already, there are major delays in the building and renovating of stadiums for the 2014 world cup. fifa, the world soccer organization, says brazil is way behind in making preparations for the world cup. will the country be ready? >> lula ( translated ): look, first, we need to be careful about european perfectionism, because everything that happens here, in the south, they think they know better than us. well, the europeans may put their minds at ease, because we will organize the most extraordinary world cup ever. >> bueno: what they didn't make in 500 years, they want to make in four, because the world cup's going to be in brazil. >> kroft: do you think they'll be ready? >> bueno: no, i don't think it's going to be ready, especially because brazilians don't mind to be late. you know, they think, "oh, just get a little late. what's the problem?"

they going to be planting the... the grass while the... the ball was already rolling. >> kroft: whatever happens in brazil, no one will be able to blame it on a lack of money. that's because 150 miles off the coast lie what are believed to be the largest discoveries of oil found anywhere in the world in the past 35 years. petrobras, the state-owned oil company, is preparing to drill 20,000 feet below the surface of the atlantic to reach oil fields that sit underneath layers of salt beds. >> batista: this oil story is a trillion-dollar story, right in front of us here. >> kroft: what do the... the offshore oil discoveries do for brazil? what do they mean for the country's future? >> batista: oh, it means we should be producing in excess of six million barrels a day. so it'll put us in among the third, fourth largest producer in the world. massive exporting. >> kroft: president-elect dilma joked recently that the oil discoveries were just the latest proof that god is brazilian. and economists from goldman

sachs, no less, have predicted that brazil, along with russia, china and india, will dominate the world economy in the 21st century. if it happens, brazil would be a different kind of superpower, one that would rather make love, not war. it has no nuclear arsenal, and aside from contributing a small number of troops to the allied cause in 1944, brazil hasn't fought a war since 1870. >> batista: why fight, with all the pleasures, beach and sun? war? forget it. soccer? let's watch a soccer game. let's go to the beach. let's drink a beer. that starts off ordinary

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>> logan: mark wahlberg has made a career of reinventing himself like no one else in show business. today he is not only one of the most sought-after actors in hollywood, he's also one of the top producers-- this from somebody who was sitting in a boston prison when most kids his age were graduating from high school. the former street tough has been nominated for an academy award, and is an executive producer of four television shows. when we first brought you his story last november, he was on the verge of unveiling a highly anticipated movie that became an obsession. he produced and stars in "the fighter," an intense and true family drama about two boxing brothers from wahlberg's native massachusetts. "the fighter" was front and

center during this year's awards season and won two oscars for best supporting actor and actress. tonight, you will get a look at what mark wahlberg says is the most satisfying and brutal project he's ever been involved in. in the movie, wahlberg plays "irish" micky ward, the blue collar boxer and perennial underdog from lowell, massachusetts, who struggles to emerge from the shadow of his older brother, dicky, a promising boxer turned crack head played by christian bale. >> christian bale: why am i the problem? i'm his brother, i'm his family. >> mark wahlberg: i'm the one who's fighting, okay-- not you, not you and not you. >> logan: the rocky relationship between the two brothers is at the heart of "the fighter." for the movie's boxing scenes, wahlberg stepped into the ring himself. stunt men were out of the question. was it hard to just stand and take it and take it and take it? >> mark wahlberg: it doesn't

tickle, that's for sure. >> logan: did you ever get hurt? >> wahlberg: i almost got my nose broken a couple of times. because when we shot the fights, the goal for me was always to make it as real as possible. >> logan: to that end, wahlberg got ready for the film as if he was training for a title fight. >> wahlberg: i didn't want to look like an actor who could box; i wanted to look like a boxer who could win the world title. we trained right here... >> logan: ...at his home in beverly hills. >> wahlberg: this is where we choreographed all the fights. >> logan: ...wahlberg built a boxing mecca, complete with a top-of-the-line ring. you took this seriously. >> wahlberg: we were in here eight to ten hours a day. >> logan: it was here that he brought the real brothers, micky and dicky, to help with his training. >> logan: mark trained for the role for four years, not knowing whether one frame of the film would ever be shot. "the fighter" almost didn't get made. directors and co-stars came and went. did you ever think, "you know, gosh, i'm never going to get this made. this is just impossible." >> wahlberg: there were

certainly times where i would wake up at 4:30 in the morning, you know, my trainer would ring the bell. and, "oh god." i'm like, "i better get this movie made." you know, "kill somebody if i don't get this movie made." >> logan: did you get obsessed with it? >> wahlberg: i was, yeah, i was. >> logan: what made you say, "this is the one." what was it about it? >> wahlberg: i was such a huge micky ward fan. >> logan: always? even growing up? >> wahlberg: yeah. oh, yeah. i mean, god, you know, the name "micky ward" was, to me, like the name "larry bird," just a local sports hero. >> logan: in micky ward, mark also saw glimpses of his own story. like ward, wahlberg was one of nine kids and grew up in working class massachusetts. were these streets really rough when you were growing up? we went back, with wahlberg, to his hometown of dorchester, a scrappy section of boston. >> wahlberg: the old guy from the store? >> logan: yeah? >> wahlberg: he thinks i owe him money. >> logan: do you owe him money? >> wahlberg: i think it's my brother who owes him money. it's my brother, georgie. it's my brother.

>> logan: wahlberg dropped out of school when he was 13. he ran with the wrong crowd, and from the law. what happened to a lot of the other kids that were on the streets with you? >> wahlberg: well, unfortunately, you know, a lot of friends are either dead or in jail, you know. >> logan: mark used to sneak out of his bedroom window and hit the streets for late nights of boozing, brawling, dealing, and stealing. were you a good thief? >> wahlberg: i was pretty good. i was pretty good. i was pretty daring. >> jim flavin: you were a pain in the neck, but you were always respectful. >> logan: a rare positive influence for mark was father jim flavin. the street punk and the parish priest struck up an unlikely friendship. father flavin saw a glimmer of wahlberg's future one day during one of mark's many appearances in court before a judge. >> flavin: he was just pouring it onto the judge-- you know, "i'll never do it again." you know, "i'm sorry," and he was wonderful. you know, he started tearing up, and the judge just melted and said, "all right," you know, "this'll be it." and he turned around and started

out, and he looked at me and winked. and i said, "you little bugger." that was an academy award performance in the courtroom. >> logan: father flavin says that he could barely see you over the steering wheel when you were driving around, waving at him from stolen cars. >> wahlberg: that is true. i just liked to drive. >> logan: a lot of people like to drive cars, but they don't necessarily steal them to drive them. >> wahlberg: well, that was not a good idea. >> logan: but on an april night in 1988, mark's crimes turned more serious. he attacked a man with a stick on this dorchester sidewalk, simply because he wanted the man's two cases of beer. did you realize that this man who you'd hit with a stick in the eye, that he'd lost his eye and that he'd... >> wahlberg: no. >> logan: when did you find out? >> wahlberg: not until later, until we started going through the court proceedings. >> logan: and what did you think? >> wahlberg: oh, god, i was just, you know, horrified. >> logan: did you ever apologize to the man that you hurt? >> wahlberg: yes. i got up in front of the court, was able to address the court and him.

and then, you know, they just put the shackles on me and took me away. >> logan: wahlberg pled guilty and was sent to a 19th-century prison. he was 17. >> flavin: it was the worst prison we had in boston. >> logan: and he was afraid? >> flavin: he'd never admit it. >> logan: but you thought he was? >> flavin: yeah. >> wahlberg: at first, i'm thinking, "well, i'm one of the guys now. i made it." and then i just realized, well, this is what it means to be one of the guys? and i just wanted more out of my life. >> logan: after serving 45 days in prison, his life turned when he followed his older brother donnie into a music studio. mark became a new man-- marky mark... a white rapper in the hip-hop world. ♪ ♪ >> logan: his 1991 song, "good vibrations," went gold. he became known for his antics onstage, where, to the delight

of screaming girls, he dropped his pants. ( cheers and applause ) >> wahlberg: it's not like i should take credit for this, like, ingenious idea. i just pulled down my pants. and my mother did not like it at all. >> logan: what did you say when your mother complained? >> wahlberg: "i wouldn't do it anymore." >> logan: and then you went out, and did it again. >> wahlberg: yeah. >> logan: the dropping of his drawers inspired an ad campaign that featured wahlberg in his calvin klein underwear. when you look back at that part of your career, how do you feel about it? >> wahlberg: it certainly got my foot in the door and allowed me to get where i am today. but i'm glad that i don't do that anymore. action! >> logan: soon after, wahlberg received a pivotal phone call from director penny marshall. she was casting a new movie, "renaissance man." >> wahlberg: and when i sat down with her, i was like, "no, i don't want to act." she goes, "what do you mean? you're acting all the... you're acting right now." you know, "you're just acting like you're a cool... you act like a tough guy." you know, "take the pages. go outside, look them over, and then come back in and audition for one of the parts."

>> logan: he did. he got the job. >> wahlberg: present, sir. tommy lee heywood, walakoochee, georgia." >> logan: was it hard for you to be taken seriously as an actor in the beginning? did people kind of scoff at you because you were the sort of rap boy? >> wahlberg: it was definitely something that was frowned upon. and i don't think all the other things that i was associated with helped. but, you know, i felt like i really found my niche. this is what i'm supposed to be doing. >> logan: acting forced him to become disciplined for the first time in his life. >> wahlberg: in the music business, they kind of, you know, encourage you to be irresponsible. >> logan: you had been pretty good at being irresponsible up to that point. >> wahlberg: exactly. so i needed the change of pace. we can always do better. >> logan: he earned the respect of critics after he pulled off a flawless performance as an innocent teenager turned porn star in "boogie nights." >> wahlberg: please don't be mean to me. >> logan: there's something so vulnerable about you in that film that really took people by surprise, because that wasn't the image that anyone had of you. >> wahlberg: that was a big turning point for me, you know, because i was really worried

about what are the guys in the neighborhood going to think. but then i was, like, "you know, what? if i want to be an actor, i got to be an actor. i can't worry about what everybody else's going to think." hey, i forgot the password, but if you'd like to come down to the garage with me, i'd be happy to give it to you. >> logan: a few years later came the film "the departed," and an oscar nomination for wahlberg. but what has perhaps given wahlberg the most cachet in hollywood is his series about hollywood. as an executive producer, he developed "entourage," the hit hbo show about a star actor who hires his boyhood friends to serve as his entourage. whose idea was it? >> wahlberg: it depends on who you ask. >> logan: i'm asking you. >> wahlberg: well, obviously, it's.... i would say it's my idea because it's based on my... my life and my guys. >> logan: it's based on your life, but how much of your life is really... kind of ends up in it. >> wahlberg: very loose. >> logan: maybe not so loose. in "entourage," the character johnny drama likes to hit golf balls from his roof top.

guess where that idea came from. yes, wahlberg likes to drive golf balls into his beverly hills neighborhood. >> wahlberg: that's money, baby. ooh, is this cousin drama? >> logan: some people might expect hollywood actors to have an entourage because they're the kind of prima donnas, but it seems to me that you really have an entourage because you can't say no. >> wahlberg: i'm not good at saying no. that is a problem. >> logan: it nearly became a real problem on the set of one of his bigger films. >> wahlberg: i remember bringing my friends to the set of "the perfect storm." it was the first time i shot a movie in boston and, you know, they're looking at the cameras and all the equipment, and they're like, "what's one of those things worth?" i'm like, "one of those panavision cameras? it's probably like $250,000." and they're like, "oh, my god, we're going to steal this thing." i'm like, "first of all, you can't steal that off the movie, okay? we're shooting, we need this thing to shoot. but second of all, where are you going to sell a panavision camera? to george at the corner store?" >> logan: wahlberg has become a powerhouse in the entertainment world.

he is an executive producer of three other series on hbo... >> what's going on? i mean, the kid from boston is taking over. >> logan: ...including "boardwalk empire," the high profile mob drama he co-produces with martin scorcese. more series and movies are in the pipeline. >> wahlberg: get them up. >> logan: he prefers producing to acting, partly because it allows him to spend more time at home with his wife and four kids. he's gone from bad boy to family guy, at his home in beverly hills, on the basketball court he built. >> wahlberg: you want to go on the motorcycle? >> logan: it's obvious how much he enjoys this new life. what do you love about it? >> wahlberg: oh, them-- waking up early and climbing in the bed with us, or seeing my son smile, you know, hearing my daughter read. i just don't like them on sugar, because then it's going to go to spankytown, and i don't want to go to spankytown. >> logan: wahlberg is not only devoted to his family; he tries to make it to church every day, no matter where he is in the

world. and when father flavin's parish gym needed a facelift back home, it was mark who stepped in. how much money did he give you for that? >> flavin: you know, i don't remember. >> logan: father. you're a man of the cloth, you're supposed to tell the truth at all times. a lot of money? >> flavin: oh, yeah. it was hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> logan: so, he's very generous. >> flavin: he is, extremely. >> logan: in dorchester, at the boys and girls club, a place where he was once banned for life... >> wahlberg: nice steal. >> logan: ...wahlberg gives his time and money to help kids, many of whom now see him as a hometown hero. what do you say to those kids when they look at you and say, "well, you didn't finish high school and look where you are?" >> wahlberg: it's my biggest regret. i feel like, if i was able to do what i did with not going to high school and getting a college degree, imagine what i could have done with a real education. i'd be running whatever studio i work for. >> logan: wahlberg feels he snuck in hollywood's back door. at the age of 40, with a movie under his belt that he considers his proudest achievement, mark

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