captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> pauley: good morning, i'm jane pauley and this is "sunday morning." the holidays are fast approaching with next saturday doing double duty as both christmas eve and the first night of hanukkah. that much, at least, is not in dispute. as for just about anything else in the news these days, there's the nagging question, is it fact or fiction? rarely has the very notion of

truth itself l itself been such a political football. as ted koppel will report in our "sunday morning" cover store tree r. >> pizza gate, vladimir putin, and the u.s. elections in a world that can no longer distinguish fact from fiction. why does it happen? >> because everyone's on the internet and it's possible to do anything you want to do. it's all about engagement. if you can get things shared you may actually be able to make money from it. >> and it's not just about fake news. the stuff that's really dangerous is real, ahead on "sunday morning." >> pauley: for our sunday profile this morning we talk to the very real nicole kidman, an actress who's pretty much portrayed it all and seen it all. tracy smith will do the honors. >> i'm dying in this town! >> nicole kidman knows just how

to break our hearts. >> i wish i could be happy with you in this place. >> but no story she's ever told on screen makes her as emotional as her own. >> i was down saying, please, give me the strength just to be able to wake up tomorrow. >> how long have you lived here? >> a decade. over a decade. >> nicole kidman opens up. later on "sunday morning." >> pauley: robbie robertson is a veteran of a store read rock band known as "the band" he shares his memories with our an on this me mason. ♪ take a load off -- >> in the '60s after backing bob dylan the band became one of the rock's most influential groups, then they suddenly called it quits. >> we played woodstock, watkins glen, there were 650,000 people. we had done it all. >> you were done? >> i was. >> later on "sunday morning,"

robbie robertson on the 40th anniversary of the last waltz, rock's most famous farewell. >> pauley: there's a gifted artist who truly comes into his own this time of year. nancy giles has been watching him at work. >> who ya going to all when you need someone special to wrap your holiday gifts? texas artist, alton dulaney. >> i'm going to run around the edge of this. >> what does that do? >> instead of you have a rounded puffy edge, really just crisp, is that edge down and squares it up. >> ahead on "sunday morning." the art of gift wrapping. >> pauley: jim axelrod honor's the late craig sager's battle against cancer. rita braver visits paulo coelho the author of "the alchemist"

and more. first, here are the headlines for "sunday morning," the 18th of december, 2016. 19 below in sioux falls, south dakota. two in chicago. it's cold. and a weekend storm caused icy roads and crashes. a 6-vehicle pile up on i-95 near baltimore included a tanker that skidded off the highway and exploded. china says it will return a u.s. navy drone it seized in the disputed water of the south china sea near the philippines. the pentagon says the drone similar to this one, was operated by civilian contractors conducting oceanic research. there's increasing desperation in the city of aleppo in syria where the evacuation of thousands has ground to a halt. there's little food and water as government troops close in on the city.

the man behind one of the best known medical interventions for non--medical folks has died in cincinnati. dr. henry heimlich was 96 years old. pope francis celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday receiving eight homeless people for breakfast at the vatican. and providing enough cake to feed 15 0 people at that time kitchens in rome serving the poor. now today's weather. storms across the eastern third of the nation. but warm along the eastern seaboard, at least for now. it's cold across the heartland with frigid temperatures from the rockies to the great lakes. as for the week ahead, winter arrives wednesday. enough said.

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>> pauley: are the news stories we americans read, see or hear fact or fiction? a loaded stand sharply divisive question in these partisan hi-tech times. no wonder the oxford dictionaries recently proclaimed "post-truth" to be the word of the year. our cover story comes from senior correspondent, ted koppel. >> folks, i've been told this by high up folks, listen, obama and

hillary both smell like sulfur. >> there's nothing new about using media to flit political slander. 17 6. an anonymous editorial accused thomas jefferson of cowardice of running away from british troops. the unidentified author? the current toast of broadway, alexander hamilton. our revered founding fathers could sling mud with the worst of them. it's not the nastiness that's new, it's the delivery systems. a radio talk show host by the name of alex jones can be heard nationwide spreading the manure that fertilizes conspear -- conspiracy theories all over the internet. >> pizza gate -- the charge that hillary clinton and her campaign manag manager, john podesta were running a child pornography ring out of the basement of a washington pizza restaurant did not, as best we can tell,

originate with jones. the tea cueser remains anonymous, but that story had real consequences. >> 28-year-old edgar welsh after driving from north carolina entered the pizzarieria fired shots. no one was hurt he came to rescue child victims. >> for weeks now people have been accusing lissa muscatine and bradley graham from smuggling children from under ground tunnel from their would be within store to the pizza restaurant. >> are the threats over, no, they're not over. they continue both online and on the phone. >> and i really call it the pep on any sakes of social media and the internet. what it's entitling people to do or enabling people to do is to take completely false information, make up whatever they want with no accountability. >> so, what do you do? you call the police. the fbi. >> turns out there's quite a

high bar that's required for police and the fbi to take action. thanks to our first amendment protections. >> that has made you rethink whether the first amendment needs some modifications, given the age in which we live? >> it certainly has. my father actually lost a job in defense of the first amendment, back in the mccarthy era. i am probably more than most people pretty sensitive to they're u. however, we live in a different world now. it's a brave new world that we still have not figured out. the purveyors of this stuff have been able to run room pant with no accountability and been able to do damage fairly freely. >> hold on, we love the first amend. free speech. the right to criticize our leaders. protection among other things for our cartoonists, comedians. >> china, china. i till recently, the satire

was a group, bring and bear it. but the shape of the battlefield has changed. >> uber, what is isis. >> many more people received donald trump's tweet, reacting to the alec baldwin impression than those who saw the original skit on nbc. >> you've been doing this for a million years, the average american could never have gotten to you and said, hey, ted, you know, you missed the this point. >> glenn beck has among the most popular radio shows in the nation. >> now, there's parity on -- on social media. the downside is that there is -- there is no gatekeeper. and there is not a real feeling of personal responsibility online. >> in his time, beck promoted some of the wildest, right wing conspiracy theories out there. >> in the president's life as

you will see is pure fiction. >> this is the new revised glenn beck. >> since in the last year and since the election, been on as many sources as i can to beg the media to learn from my mistakes. you know, sometimes you have a road to damascus moment. i've had my road to damascus moment, if we don't change this, if we can't find our way to each other, it's only going to get worse. >> which puts glenn beckon roughly the same page as pope francis. his holiness compared media's obsession with scandal and ugly things to the sickness of coprophalia. if you're just finishing breakfast, look it up later. it's that is see. it can, however, also be profitable. margaret sullivan is media correspondent for the "washington post." >> there is now an industry out thereof people who are producing

things that that are untrue and that are highly shareable. which is the magic word. it's engagement. it's all about engagement. if you can get things shared, you may actually be able to make money from it. >> how diets work? sort of a fraction of a penny for every hit that you get? >> yes. buzzfeed reported this, a great story. there was a group of teenagers in macedonia who were doing nothing but coming up with fake news stories. they set up their own sites and they registered to 'tract advertising through facebook. they put these stories outed l. made up to be wrong. but were sounded believable enough that people started sharing them. they could make pretty good money for teens in macedonia. >> just this week, facebook implemented a new policy that will make it more difficult for the purveyors of fake news to get paid. but fake news is far from being

the greatest threat. >> so, one of your correspondents comes to the editorial board of the "washington post" and says, here's this story which was leaked by the russians to wikileaks, and wikileaks has just leaked it to us. and we've checked on it. it turns out to be true. what do you do with that? >> well, we actually faced that choice throughout, you know, the past, you know, few months. >> exactly. if it's true you run it. >> if it's newsworthy. >> josh earnest is white house press secretary. >> what the russians did in the context of the election was to go and take information that was stored privately, hacked into it and release it selectively over the course of many days. in an effort to politically damage, at least erode confidence in our political system that did politically damage one candidate for president. >> if indeed the russians have

been engaged in trying to delegitimize one candidate, aid another candidate, undermine the electoral process. that comes dangerously close to a belligerent act, doesn't it? >> obviously it's an unwelcome one. that's why you've seen such a robust response from the u.s. government. >> well, i haven't seen a robust response. >> you've seen a robust response ins terms of basically making clear publicly. >> i've heard a lot of talk. has there been any response? >> well -- a robust response? >> well, talk matters. what also matters is -- >> only matters if you follow it up with action. >> and before leaving on vacation, president obama hinted broadly that action was either forthcoming or had already been taken. the president also urged us to look in the mirror. >> if fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical

to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect. >> is this an area where the first amendment remains relevant? >> i think it's always relevant, right? it's the foundation of our democracy. one. things weak set as citizens of the united states are reasonable and responsible limitations on our constitutional rights. for example, most famously, the supreme court has said you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. because that could pose a threat to the public. >> well, if there was one statement of one justice in one case that i could eradicate from the face of the earth wait be oliver wendell homes' statement about crying fire. >> jonathan turley is a first

amendment scholar at george washington university. >> i think there is a lot of reason to be worried. there's no question that mainstream media collapsing on many fronts. the competition from the internet is insurmountable. but more importantly people now have the ability to create hire own personal echo chambers. to go to news sources that reaffirm their feelings. the question is, how do we solve that problem. the one way we cannot do that is to look to the government. that is the siren call of sen or ship. >> what's the alternative? civility? objective reporting? or renewed respect for facts? it's a thought.

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went on to perform it right here on cbs christmas day, 18958. countless other companies over the years have told the timeless story of a wooden nut cracker come to life to lead a triumphant christmas eve battle against an oversized mouse king. >> how could you have christmas without "nut cracker." >> pauley: the late irene foe keen was the daughterriha balance reena who danced in the original production. >> they call me the legend. the last of the foe keens. >> when bill geist visited with her in 200, madam fokine was presiding over her 50th annual new jersey row ducks. drilling her young cast in the no-nonsense russian manner. we visited many other nut cracker. answers over the years.

♪ from the jazz influenced "harlem nut cracker" in 1996. to last year's pacific northwest ballet production with our own luke burbank. >> give me your best mouse. >> pauley: cost as a mouse for one night only. on stages large and small, amateur and professional, "the nutcracker" is the christmas gift that truly keeps on giving. ♪ >> you want to fold it on both ends. >> next, it's a wrap. >> so that your box inside doesn't slip around.

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with ingredients like roasted hazelnuts and cocoa, nutella adds a smile to any morning. nutella - spread the happy! >> pauley: 'tis the season for wrapping gifts. which is where the gifted artist nancy giles met comes in. >> alton dulaney is a wrapper. he has wrapped a little. but this is the kind of wrapping that has made him famous. >> i just run my fingers around am the edges it really gives a nice square crisp look. >> he knows a lot of tricks. >> if you cut paper with

glitter, the glitter on the paper can dull your scissors. that's why i keep a separate pair far my ribbon. >> four minutes remaining. >> he earned his ribbon as one of the best in the country. >> and the wincer, alton dulaney. >> winning scotch brand tapes most gifted wrapper competition. >> i was just focused. i'm going to win this contest. >> he beat seven other final cyst for the $10,000 grand prize. the ultimate challenge, to wrap a grand piano. >> we only had 15 minutes to wrap it. >> alton considers gift wrapping an art. because first and foremost, due lane "an artist. >> what i'm trike to say is that art can be bigger than just that painting on the wall or that sculpture. >> it's a living thing. >> a way of life. >> a former window dresser he works in this narrow hallway studio at the university of houston where he's teaching,

getting his master of fine arts. >> you're sort of out there. >> on display. >> what's that about. >> what better way to get exposure than to be on view all the time. >> what i also love is instant gratification. i'm going to that i hot little number. >> oh, my, gosh. >> his work is also on view at nearby studio. >> i heard these rumors that there were these artists that lived in the woods they had that giant studio. they hearing aid this work. >> and for a lot of his work, art is the word. the studio is a stone's throw from his childhood home in shawl town of splendora, texas, population, around 1600. you live there? >> yes. my little caravan. >> a trailer he has made into art to live in. who lives there? >> my parents live here. i grew up here. >> the same of the street is. dulaney s.

>> why 6-year-old alton predict the future. oliver and carol. >> he was going to be an artist and travel and be famous some day. >> he did it. after touring with the circus, dulaney found his way to new york city where he had various design jobs and further developed his artistic persona. >> i pre-dy the eggs, i know you don't like pink. >> after winning he became the go-to guy each holiday on tv and in the homes some of exclusive clients. tara tomicic engaged him to help her decorate, trim the tree and wrap the family's gifts. >> why would anybody hire somebody to help them with gift wrapping? >> it's difficult.

it seems like you fell down on putting thought into that. >> 23 you're thoughtful this holiday, you, too, can be an artist like alton dulaney. >> when i'm giving this to you i want you to know that i created this for you. this is a creation from me to you as if it were a work of art. >> pauley: coming up -- i haven't played it since the last waltz. >> , no really? >> yeah. >> pauley: anthony mason talks with the band's robbie robertson. ♪ this is for you. did you really? didn't have too! ♪

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ago, robertson is still very much with us. talking with anthony mason for the record. >> that's it. ♪ >> it's been a long time since robbie robertson played one of his best known songs. ♪ "the night they drove old dixie down." >> i barely remember it. i haven't played it since the last waltz. >> no, really? >> yeah. ♪ the night they drove old dixie down ♪ >> that was 1976 when robertson played his last gig with the band at the last waltz, rock's most famous farewell concert.

>> we played at woodstock, watkins glen, there were 650,000 people. we had done it all. >> i done? >> i was. >> if these walls could talk. >> for the most part, robertson hasn't looked back. but in his new memoir "testimony." the bond's principal songwriter returns to the time he was part of a revolution in music. ♪ are r. raised in toronto, robertson, who's half mohawk indian and half jewish was 10 when he started playing guitar. ♪ you. >> had a job at guitarist by the time you were 16. >> i was playing on the road full time, making a living and playing the chitlin can i sit down south. ♪ when i kiss your lips ] >> he joined the singer ronnie hawkins where he'd meet a young drummer named levon helm. >> every bone in his body was

musical. he just lit up the room. so him and i just became like brothers. >> one by one, garth hudson, richard manuel and rick danko also joined the group. in 1964, they split off from hawkins to form their own bond, levon and the hawks. they would make their way to new york where robertson encountered a young folk singer, bob dylan. ♪ >> we went by the studio when he was recording "like a rolling stone" just happened to drop in. ♪ once upon a time you dressed so fine. >> he played this song i thought, wow, i don't think i've heard anything quite like this before. ♪ how does it feel ] >> dylan needed a backing ban, hiredded the hawks. he was switching from acoustic guitar. to a new electric sound. it was a musical earthquake that angered his audience.

♪ i ain't gonna work on maggie's farm." >> in the documentary "no direction home" dylan's folk fans called him a trait or. >> i don't believe you. it. >> was so ugly every night. and some blamed the new band. what are you thinking when you hear that? >> i wasn't sure they were wrong but it hurt, too. >> but bob stayed with you? >> bob didn't budge. and i thought, he's either right or crazy. >> but that must have have meant a lot? >> it meant a lot. by then we were back to back in this thing. >> dylan would say, it was like putting our heads in the lion's mouth. >> there was something deep in his soul that was saying, i'm right and you're wrong. >> in 1967, after dylan retreated to woodstock, the band

joined him, renting a small house nearby and turning the basil into a studio they called the place, the big pink. >> it was like, valhalla, we're in our own world. we're making music that nobody is supposed to ever hear. >> dylan and the band would record more than 100 songs in the basement. >> it's an incredibly productive period. >> out of the basement tapes comes music from the big pink. then bob within weeks records john wesley harding. >> ♪ all along the watchtower >> there couldn't have been more music. >> robertson would write his best known song after noticing the stamp on his martin guitar. >> i was looking inside the guitar i saw nazareth. i thought, wow, that's a sound. ♪ i pulled into nazareth, i

was feeling about half past dead ♪ i thought, wow, i'm on to something here. ♪ i pulled into nazareth i was feeling about half past dead. >> that song would appear on music from big pink, their ground breaking debut album. they also debuted their new name. >> we got so used to everybody calling us, the bond, all the time that we're playing with bob. >> you were just the band. >> we were the band, ♪ up on cripple creek, she sent me ♪ >> for eight years the band would be one of rock's most influential groups. >> then you come to l.a.? >> the fall of 19. >> by the mid '70s when robertson had resettled in los angeles, drugs were causing friction understand band. >> it came to a place and then i said, why don't we bring this episode to a conclusion, a beautiful musical conclusion. ♪ i shall be released. >> on thanksgiving day in 1976,

they played their final concert. dylan, clapton and joni mitchell all showed up for the last waltz, which was filmed by martin scorsese. >> marty had this made for me. >> robertson has since collaborated with scorsese on the music for six films. ♪ all the people were singing ♪ >> but the dissolution of the band would leave a bitter taste, particularly with drummer levon helm who saw the last waltz as robertson's attempt to celebrate himself. >> you didn't want the band to break up, did you? >> of course not. that don't make sense. have a big going out of business concert. >> in 2007 interview, five years before his death, levon's bitterness was still raw. >> is that rift ever going to heal? >> i doubt it. not as long as he wants to claim everything that the band ever made, you know. >> did you guys try to patch things up ever down the road? >> as much as i loved him and admired his extraordinary

musical talent, i could not do the bitterness any more. but when they called me and said, he's in the hospital and he's dying, i went right to the hospital. and i sat with him and i held his hand. i sat there and thought abrupt the beautiful things that we have been through together. and i was happy for that moment to kind of wash away any dark clouds. ♪ put the road right on me >> i will never give up. >> pauley: tea head, craig sager's brave battle.

>> pauley: we pause now to remember sportscaster craig sager, who died thursday at age 65 after a long battle with cancer. outspoken to the end, he recently gave his last tv interview with our jim axelrod. >> the introductions. >> for years, craig sager was among america's best known sportscasters, a favorite of both players and fans for his

engaging way of reporting. >> couldn't they send someone else out here? >> it's you and me. >> and his flashy way of dressing. his sports coats were loud they were a deafening roar. >> you take this outfit home, you burn it. >> but recently, sager took his place as perhaps america's best known cancer patient. >> ladies and gentlemen, craig sager! >> honored this year at the espy's the oscars of the sports world, for the courage he demonstrated in his harrowing two and a half year battle against leukemia. >> i will continue to keep fighting, sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me. >> you've become perhaps america's highest profile cancer patient. did you ever think about that?

>> not in those terms, no. >> he had just finished his third bone marrow transplant at the md anderson cancer vin houston when we sat down with him in october. sager, reexcellent dent in a flowery black and blue number. cancer can mess with a lot but never with craig sager's style. >> i'm fighting not only for myself and for my family but for everybody who has cancer. >> sager sent more than 40 years looking for scoops. the guy in the trench coat not to be denied at home plate when hank aaron hit his 715th. that's sager. but at 65, the cancer left his familiar face a touch less familiar. >> so this just comes in the mail every day? >> yes. >> he faced his dire diagnosis

with strength and determination. >> these big ones will be "sports illustrated" people want me to sign. >> moved by his newly found capacity to inspire. >> i hope you are feeling well and in good spirits. >> is there a way in which you look at this battle and can see the blessings? >> absolutely. the response that i've gotten where people say "oh, i've been negative earn all my life and you've changed my life, now i'm more positive and i'm happier." >> last month, he published a book "living out loud" combining a charmingly light hard look at his career, with the most serious lessons about life sager gleaned from facing death. >> i thought this was the key sentence of the whole thing. "fun thee how time takes on new meaning when others tell you that you don't have much of it

left." >> yeah. nobody knows how long they have left on earth. you know. there's no guarantees. and for me, when they tell you not once, twice, three times, you got a couple of weeks to live or couple of months, you have to determine how you want to do that. >> just last weekend, his doctors having told him there was nothing more they could do, craig sager got out of his bed and went to his 10-year-old's son's basketball game on saturday. and his 11-year-old daughter's game on sunday. three days later, the day before he died, sager celebrated his 14th wedding anniversary with his wife, stacey. is that where the victory is? how you live your life even during battle? >> yes.

i said that, you know, every day is just a canvas waiting to be painted. and it's how you live that day. that goes for everybody. doesn't go just for me. it goes for everybody. >> a good reminder for us all. ♪ let the sunshine >> pauley: still to come -- war par ♪ let the sunshine in ♪ >> pauley: in perfect harmony victoza lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill, which didn't get me to my goal. victoza® works with your body to lower blood sugar in three ways: in the stomach, the liver, and the pancreas.

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>> you might say david brown has harmony in his heart. it's usually on his calendar, too. >> we're going to sing through a to you of our songs. ♪ when i reach the place i'm going ♪ >> this is his weekly choir practice at the ohio reformatory for women near columbus. >> take a deep breath. ♪ will you still be here tomorrow? or will you leave the dead of the night ♪ >> david has big plans for the group. >> i got a bus stand we're all leaving to go to burger king. shh. don't tell anybody. >> pauley: no, it's not that the. >> we got teach me how to be loved we need to own it this time. own it! okay? ♪ can i look at you with different eyes no ♪ like the girl that i was, when i was 17 ♪

♪ i got high hopes >> pauley: the harmony project is rehearsing, too. ♪ swing that chariot up and let me ride ♪ >> pauley: founded seven years ago, nobody has ever had to audition. >> still not there, all right? >> pauley: well, practice haiks perfect. it's one thing to sing and carry the tune and then to sing like i saw them singing. how do you get them to do that? >> it's the combination of, you know, folks with a church background. when i say "church" i don't mean church, i mean "church" folks that come train church background they come in knowing how to sing. not afraid. >> even the presbyterians?

>> well, that's not this kind tax church. that's this kinda church. just for the record, both are fine, okay? ♪ all that matters to the heart ♪ >> david told me you didn't have to audition to participate. i just thought, okay, he must be crazy. >> that is music director reggie jackson and others figured out, the harmony project is partly about music, but all about harmony. ♪ all that we have that carries on ♪ >> music may have gotten us in the door but music not necessarily what keeps us here. it has really opened up opportunities for us to get to know each other. we're a lot more alike than we realize. you have warden sitting next to a ceo. >> it's like a joke. a abby, a warden -- >> it's no joke. roni burkes is the warden. tom is the ceo of donato's piz

pizza. and sharon mars is a rabbi. >> they never miss a cue. ever. >> pauley: choir members jen stand janae have a special relationship. >> i've been in choirs all my life. i've always looked for someone to help me because i'm not only behind i'm hearing impaired in both ears. >> which is with jen comes in. for six years she's stood by janae's side with a helping hand. >> my hand is constantly on janae's leg. a sap to keep the beat. we do a long drawn outline on her thigh for holding a note o out. but incredibly grateful to her for having this opportunity. >> pauley: how much does the to have you have in common? >> probably not a whole lot. >> not a whole lot. we love music. >> pauley: that's the whole point of the harmony project.

in its diversity, a community can find harmony. the only requirement to be part of the group is a commitment to community service. and did we mention that there's a waiting list of 400? >> they must serve a certain number of hours in the community. i learned by being engaged with people who were different from me. all i want is the world to keep moving in that direction. >> pauley: david brown teas vision of inclusiveness might date back to his youth in louisiana. r. you were find of an outsider in a lot of ways growing up. >> in my senior year we moved to a school where i was the only, at that time, white boy, in my class. then in college, that's when i started to come to terms with my sexuality. so that made me feel isolated and separated and like i didn't fit in. >> pauley: but he says that in columbus, he found the community he was looking for. >> seven years ago when we started -- >> pauley: the harm thee project.

>> to me this choir is a snapshot of the greater columbus community. this isn't us trying to show the world how sight be. this is us showing the world how we are. ♪ lord, i know i have changed ♪ >> pauley: and who we are. >> you can do it! >> the spiritual experience for me. every single time we're in this room and we herring with david, you call him my rabbi. >> he's just masterful. i think at pulling these sparks out of us that are really holy. i think the humanity at its best is what harmony is. ♪ and i -- i -- i don't mind ♪ >> >> pauley: that brings us to their one night only, sold out performance last month at columbus' landmark "ohio theater. ♪ let the sunshine let the sunshine in ♪

let the sunshine ♪ let it sunshine in ♪ >> some surprise guests join ld the hoyer on stage. ♪ will you still be here tomorrow. >> 16 inmates released for the evening from the ohio reformatory for women. ♪ can i give myself one more second chance ♪ >> it takes rhutzpah, courage, whatever you want to call it to stand on stage in a prison uniform where you normally feel very judged by people. ♪ teach me how to loved ] >> they didn't feel judged. ♪ teach me how to be loved >> beautiful! [ applause ] >> between audience responded to those women and they began to stand. i could feel -- >> take it in. take it in. take it all the way in. >> i could feel what was

happening in them. >> show could i. >> we did our job. >> take it all the way in. [ applause ] >> pauley: next. santas in blue. man: i am a veteran; my victory was finding

>> jay: a secret santa is already going 20 town in the city steve hartman has been to. >> last week, the kansas city, kansas, police department was on the take. >> i'm going to give each of you a thousand dollars. >> each got at least a grand. kurt tee of the anonymous wealthy businessman i know only as secret santa. >> this is the day for you to just have fun.

we ready to roll? >> their assignment was to go out into the community and find people who look like they could use an extra hundred this holiday season. people like, gwen jones. >> i told my family already that we're not going to be able to do christmas this year because i don't have the money to do it. >> didn't have the money to do it. until now. that's how it went. >> oh, my, god. >> benjamin after benjamin. >> this street for real. >> armed assault after wonderful armed assault. most of the people they just happened upon, but some they sought out. officer james turney knew of a homeless woman staying at this motel with her two young children. hi, crystal. >> in fact turney is paying for their room out of his own pocket. >> here is a thousand dollars. s yeah. >> he gave her everything. >> you make me a better person. >> thank you. >> there are men and women that wear the badge and they stay on

the line to protect us and to serve. >> it is no coincidence that secret santa chose the kansas city, kansas, police department to give away his money this year. he's from around here. and this relatively small department lost two officers in the line of duty. just ten weeks 'art. allowing them this privilege was meant as a reminder of the inherent goodness in people. >> it's really neat because they tee that you're a human being, too. you're just like them. i think the uniform goes away and you just realize that we're am the same people. and that's the gift to me for this. >> in the end, the officers gave out nearly $30,000 to random strangers and special causes. >> absolutely. >> those on the receiving end will, no doubt, have a merrier christmas. while those who gave it away got to keep something even better. a message for a happier new year. >> we have angels in heaven, but

here you are the angels. you can touch us. >> you can take that to the bank. >> hello there. >> pauley: still to come, nicole kidman on film and family. >> my little girls are southern girls. >> do they have southern accents? >> yeah. >> pauley: and later. taking aim with best selling author paulo coelho.

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>> pauley: nicole kidman and jude law were quite the couple in the 2003 movie "cold mountain" she's an actress who seems to master almost any kind of role. tracy smith has our sunday profile. >> i was watching interview from far and away days, 2002. >> oh, my, god. >> well, i walk funny. >> i do walk fun thee. >> how? well, i have a little bit of a knock-knee. >> you might say nicole kidman is larger than life. >> then i have a little bit of scoliosis. okay. we're going to get my whole medical history here. >> she's nearly six feet without shoes. she kind of stands out even on a quiet street in her nashville neighborhood. but as a kid growing up in sydney, australia, she didn't always like being the tallest girl in the room. >> i think maybe when i was a little i would, you know, i would try to sort of -- there's way where you can look shorter where you put your hip out and

stand like that. which i started doing when i was a teenager to look is the same height as the boys. but then i just started to go, no, i'm going to stand up. pull my shoulders back, hold my head up high. >> now, if it's possible, she stands even taller on film. nicole kidman can play anyone, she often has. like the doomed song girl satine in 2001's moulin rouge. ♪ a kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend ♪ >> she was a civil war heroine in 2003 "cold mountain." >> there will be a reckoning when war is over. >> she was the icy villain in last year's teddy bear fantasy, padding ton. >> i'm going stuff you bear.

>> but nicole kidman's latest role just might be closest to home. in the movie "lion" she plays fellow australian sue brierly in a true story of a couple who adopted lost indian boy helped him find his birth mother. >> why did you connect so deeply. >> because i have adoptive children but she's also a mother. she's an unconditional love mother if that makes sense. that love brings to you your knees, crawling over hot coals, has you lane down and giving up your life. >> it seems that love, and the pursuit of it, has been a constant in her life. >> the finish line it's -- she met her first husband tom cruz on the set of her first big hollywood movie nascar in sneak days of thunder." >> i thought you weren't going

to watch. >> i lied. >> they instantly became one of the most famous, and photographed, couples in the world. >> it that sudden to you? >> it was pretty sudden. but, you know, when i fall in love that was everything else was like -- i get distracted. >> and you were. >> i was distracted. >> wasn't ignoring you. >> she still won't say exactly why, but after ten years and two adopted children, kidman and cruz went their separate ways. >> i'm dying in this town! >> kidman channeled her anguish over the break up put on a prosthetic nose to play the role of a lifetime. british author virginia woolf in 2002's "the hours." >> if it's a choice between richmond and death. >> as a viewer i found it hard to shake the sadness san francisco that movie. did you find that difficult? >> yeah. i mean, i was deeply sad at the

time. when i he got lost in her. it all sounds sort of mumbo crazy stuff but it kind of saved my life. >> you say saved your life, what do you mean? >> i mean let me feel like, oh, i can keep going. it's okay. life goes on. >> and on it went. she won the 2003 oscar for best actress with most of her family, including mother janelle, by her side. you gave her your oscar? >> then i took it back. >> you did? >> i did. i gave it to her. then i was sitting on the mantle, why is it sitting there? she had it for a little while, i'll give it back to you, momma. i suddenly went, no, i want it back. >> she found another keeper in 2005.

country singer and fellow aussie, keith urban whom she met in los angeles. they were married the following year now have two daughters. what was it between the to have you that clicked when you first met? >> chemistry. we just had chemistry. i never underestimate the power of chemistry. >> she knows good chemistry when she sees it. her own parents were married 50 years until 2014 when her beloved dad, dr. tony kidman, died suddenly of a heart attack. understandably she was a wreck. >> when my father passed away i was literally i was -- i was down saying, please, give me the strength just to be able to wake up tomorrow. because i was shattered beyond belief at that. i didn't even know how get up from this. >> how did you get up? >> because i had a husband that came right back. i called him screaming and crying. he was about to go on stage.

he walked off stage and he got on a plane. he had just gotten there. he flew six hours and he was right back there. he literally picked me up and carried -- pretty much carried me through the next two weeks. i also had, you know, my children going, it's going to be all right, momma. >> is that what they said? >> it's interesting the way children view things. you still got your momly. >> this is what i love. >> her children have her. when she's not working the 49-year-old kidman spends most of her time here in nashville. >> were you at all worried about moving here at first? >> actually, when i met keith he brought me down here we went to a place, which is about 40 minutes from here. i so hope in asks me to marry him i can move here.

now both my daughters were born in nashville. nashvilleians. my little girls are southern girls. >> have southern accents. >> they say y'all. >> that will do it. there you go. she's already racking up award tomorrow nations for "lio, this" but you get the sense what thick coal kid han wants more than think trophy is time. >> that is the i am regs that you'd like to leave on the world? >> i would just like to -- haiks me sad, just like to be here long enough to have my children grow up and for me to see them thriving. right? oh, you would -- should not have done this to me. that's all i ask. and that my husband and i are with each other. simple, simple requests. >> why does it make you -- just the idea of the kids getting

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>> pauley: study the fine print of any novel by paulo coelho and you'll find all the signs of a master at work. rita braver traveled to switzerland to pay him a visit. >> for this 69-year-old man, his

morning routine, on the terrace of his penthouse in geneva, switzerland, is not just archery but a form of meditation. >> it works wonderfully, because every time you have to open the bow, you can see the universe. >> and soulful observations like that have made paulo coelho one of the top selling authors in the world. >> i have 210 million books in print which means, 600 million people read my books, because the average is three per book. >> it's the same kind of sensational headlines you would find today. >> absolutely. s. >> his latest novel is based on the life of mata hari the dutch born section another i can dancer who in 19127 was executed by the french.

accused, coelho believes falsely, of spying for germany. that's a whole firing squad where they -- >> whole firing squad. she refused to be blindfolded and she wanted to die like she lived. you know, standing. >> standing up straight. >> when i start writing as if i were mata hari, her voice was talking to me. i could hear her. she was innocent of spying, but she was not that innocent. she used lies to survive and then people lied against her and condemned her to death. >> the spy is coelho's 28th book. >> this is french. this is polish. >> a self-described internet junkie he has more facebook followers than any other author. many, drawn to him because of his most famous work "the alchemist." it has spent an 'sonnishing

eight years on the "new york times" best seller list. it's an allegorical tale of andalusian shepard boy who goes searching for treasure ends up finding the key to happiness. people started calling you a guru, a seer, a prophet for writing that book. >> they think so. of course not. i was trying to understand my own life. >> and what a life. coelho was raised in a conservative brazilian catholic family. you wanted to become a writer from an early age. but your parents didn't approve of that. >> so they put me in a mental institution. >> in a mental institution. >> yeah. >> he would escape three times before his parents gave up. >> ♪ viva >> coelho adopted a hippie lifestyle, in a few years was

writing hit songs. ♪ viva rock and roll >> but forces linked to the ruling right wing brazilian military establishment but his counter culture lyrics bore a secret communist message. >> i was then taken to this hidden places where they used to torture, and things like this, that was the worst part of my life. >> what happened to you there? >> i was beaten. they used shocks. total isolation in a dark room, no light with a siren. woo! >> released after a month he found work writing for tv. and he found love with artist christina oiticica, now his wife. >> this was your wedding ring. >> yes. >> but by 1980, he wanted to write books. >> i said, christina, i have you, i have money, i have a work

that i am not very enthusiastic about. but, what am i doing here? i have $17,000 to find the meaning of life. if it is more expensive we are lost. >> it would be years before "the alchemist" found a u.s. publisher and took off, helped in part my famous fans like president clinton and madonna. but now, you make no secret about the fact that having written this book made you very rich. >> very much. >> i read, if it's true, more than $500 million rich. >> yeah, more, more, more. >> today, paolo and christina give millions to charity and own several homes including that elegant apartment, decorated with her artwork. just a short walk away, is the institute that houses his archive.

>> most important thing i have, my first typewriter when i was 15 years old. >> what's this one? >> this one, i wrote "the alchemist." >> it is here that paulo coelho can really appreciate the enormity of what he has accomplished. >> it is something that i could never, ever dream of and then you see that your soul goes beyond yourself. what all these people have in common. i would say, what am i doing here. that is the main question.

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