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want to buy a new car. >> auto analyst said the computer chip shortage is to blame. >> you're not getting discount. >> god no. are you lucky if you're just paying msrp and good amount of people are paying well over sticker. >> automakers cancelled orders amid plunging sells so chip makers focus on making smaller chips for electronics like refrigerators, tv's phones and laptops that are all in high-demand. >> once you adopt your supply chain to something else it takes a while to go back. i struggle to see things going back the way they were for another 6 to 9 months. >> in the meantime some automakers are storing some unfinished vehicles, ford is putting brakes on production in some factories this sum er, anticipating producing more than 1 million fewer vehicles costing
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ford $2.5 billion. >> we have stimulus money and tax returns coming in so people are ready to buy a car. >> many are turning to used vehicles driving prices up 30% in may. with some models reselling for more than when they were new. making matters worse, rental companies are scrambling to buy fleets of cars after selling 800,000 during the pandemic. as a result daily rental car rates more than doubled. >> rental car companies are looking to used car options which is something that normally does not happen. >> what advice would you give someone who needs to buy a car in the next six months. >> if at all possible wait because the supply is so low. people are having a very hard time finding the exact configurations they want, maybe be more flexible on tho things. delay. >> well, one way to delay a new car purchase if jurenovich
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car purchase is if you're leasing, and you should probably consider a sedan, they are a lo. finally, if you have a used car to sell, now is an excellent time to do it, as long as you don't have to buy one to replace it. >> that was carter evans reporting. you're watching "cb i would've called yesterday. but... i could've called yesterday. but... i should've called yesterday, but... would've, could've, should've. we hear that a lot. hi. i'm jonathan, an insurance professional and manager here at colonial penn life insurance company. sometimes, people put off calling about life insurance. before you know it, another year has passed. and when they do call, they say, "i wish i'd called sooner." call right now for free information on the $9.95 plan. are you between age 50 and 85? you can get whole life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month.
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has gained fame and fortune with ground breaking movies such as "pulp fiction" and more, but wants to turn a page in his career. he discussed what's to come with tracy smith. >> hollywood, it seems was built on books. >> i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. >> we all know the don was a literary legend first. ♪ >> as was mary poppins. and that shark in "jaws". >> what do i always say, most important thing in this town is when you're making money. >> reporter: so it might surprise you that the book that inspired quentin tarantino's he ic "once upon a time in hollywood" was actually upt, ma. >> the t an aging actor and his stunt double looking for relevance in late 60s hollywood.
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the new book is actually a novelization, a much more detailed version of the script. so if, for instance, you want to see even more of brad pitt's character, the book will tell you everything that tarantino couldn't fit in the film. >> so is this home, l.a.? >> yeah. >> it all makes perfect sense to the author who we met at the movie theater he owns in los angeles. >> when i talked to you in 2009 you said this to a lot of people that at 60 you would switch gears and become a man of letters is how you put it and do novels. so you're 58. >> yeah. >> and you're headed down that path already. >> yeah, exactly. yeah. without cutting it off at 60 i started on that path. >> of course it's been a hell of a ride so far. quentin tarantino has made nine movies and along the way created some of the most memorable characters in film history.
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from a yellow track suit wearing female action hero. to an unnervingly intelligent he'll nazi is village. >> you're sheltering enemies of the ate, a a qt would be the fi to tell you. >> that actually works pretty good. >> film making is not the easiest way to make a living. >> what is about the lit ry life that appeals to you. >> one nice thing is i spend a lot of time writing my scripts and when i'm done now i got to go make the movie. now i got to cast it and we got to look for locations and we go to another place where i don't live and spend six months doing that and it's like this whole process. i know, it's a fun process, and a wonderful way to live a life, i'm not making it sound like its a bad thing, i'm very fortunate to have the situation to do that but the idea of putting your heart and soul into a piece of writing and when you're done you're done, that's amazing.
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>> yeah how did that feel with this book? >> it felt fantastic! >> i just don't dig on swine, that's all. >> tarantino might be a first-time novelist but he's always been a writer. a lot of it in long hand. >> i write it like that and i type it up afterwards. >> so how many -- you type like this. >> no like this. >> just one. >> i'm not this sophisticated i'm like this. >> oh, my goodness it's a long process. >> you'd be surprised how -- how -- how you pick up speed. once you get comfortable. when you got to take all that junk and type it up with one finger, you know, if it's not shakesp shakespeare, you can cut it. >> you can use my straw i don't have cooties. >>, b maybe i do. >> but his process seems to work. for both his oscars are for best
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original screen play. >> #whereiroot does the. >> where does the dialogue come from. >> i remember funny phrases, even if me and you go to lunch and overhear an interesting conversation between a daughter and mother in the next booth, if they say something interesting, it could be nine years from now -- >> -- you'll remember it? >> yeah. as i'm writing, if it is apropos it will pop up. >> it comes back. >> exactly. >> it seems he chooses his actors as carefully as his words. >> i don't know who you are. but you touched me today. >> bruce dern played a movie ra time" but tarantino's first pick was burt reynolds who passed before the film was finished. >> did you get a chance to shoot with him? >> no, no. i got a chance to rehearse with
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him. i'm officially the last role he played because he came to the script reading and that was his last acting, not only that, the night he died, what he was doing before he passed on is he was running lines with his assistant. >> wow. >> that's like, sad and beautiful at the same time. >> it is. in a way it has to make you feel good to give him that chance. >> oh, he was so happy. i can honestly say he died happy. i'm not saying he died happy because of me. but he was happy. he was definitely happy when he passed on. >> these days quentin tarantino seems to have found his own share of happiness. he is now a married father of one. >> when we talked the last time we talked about relationships and you said i'm all about the movie. i need to focus on my movie, that's all i care about, that's it. what changed? >> well, the woman i met changed it. daniel lapick, i met her, we
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fell in love, she wanted to get married and i did too and so i got married. i mean, it's pretty incredible it is something that trumped your ultimate love, the love of the movie. >> absolutely and she didn't >> quentin and daniela who split between l.a. and her native israel have a 16 month old son leo who, no surprise, already likes watching movies with dad. >> and so i now know officially the first motion picture he seen is despicable me 2. >> excellent. and the cool thing is here you are sharing a movie with your son. >> i'm -- if i talk about it too much, i'm already going to start crying, if i talk about it -- i -- i can't even see his name written on a piece of paper without crying. >> . ts t it's just he's my le my little lion. i see his name l-e-o, written
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down, isolated it's just -- i -- when it comes to him he's the most charming human being i've ever met in my life. half of the time i look at him and i'm just laughing because he's just so funny and the other time i'm just bursting into tears. >> and those are both great. >> yeah. >> that was the best acting i've ever seen in my whole life. >> of course work is still pretty great too. his book is likely the first of many but he says his next film will be his last. >> do you have a sense of what that tenth film is going to be? >> no i don't have a clue. if i had to guess i would think once upon a time in hollywood is sort of the epic at the end of the career. if i had to guess i would think the tenth film would be more epilg -- you told the big story and then there's a big thing at the end. >> you could say that's classic,
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today i'm calling grace to let her know a family in minnesota received an unexpected gift from the past and it came from an amateur investigator near 5,000 miles away. now with that story. >> reporter: though their time together was short he remembers his uncle as kind and caring and hard-working. >> he was wonderful. he helped my folks, a lot. >> reporter: like so many young men, during world war ii, he found himself far from the farm, inay 1944 his came untry eras. under attack by german soldiers near itri, italy. >> they went on patrol. he was the first man out.
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when they all came back he never came back. >> as we were getting nailed before we got the firj notice he was missing, letters started coming. >> the family received a letter from a squad mate saying they searched for days with no luck but they never gave up hope. and nearly eight decades after he disappeared his family finally caught a break. >> it's a heavy weight. pretty sure it's a piece of a bomb. >> it's not unusual to find world war two relics on the family farm but in april he made a discovery unlike any other, while walking along a path he stumbled upon harlan's dog tag and he did an internet search and found local newspaper about the grave mark errand he decided to send the dog tag back.
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>> he just knew he had to try to get it home and it is. about 77 years to the date that he went missing that we got this. >> reporter: ifis would like them back here to be burpied in the family cemetery plot in holland lake. it was rain, or wind itself that allowed this discovery. >> i never expected i would have to do something like that. >> reporter: the family is grateful, after almost 80 years they have closure. >> so a part of him has come home. >> for cbs news in howard lake, minnesota. >> and that's overnight news for this ththursday. for some of you theews continues, for others, check back later for "cbs this morning" and follow online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital i'm ben tracy. ♪
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