here again is lee cowan. >> cowan: richard gere played a millionaire who had everything but love in the990 movie "pretty woman" very different from the role he took on that's now up on the summer screen overseas. project close to gere's heart as he tells our seth doane. >> i think we're all looking for home. i think we're all looking for our place. >> after a career of playing the dashing, leading man in movies like "pretty woman." >> oh! >> "an officer and a gentleman." and "chicago." ♪ >> not long ago richard gere turned his attention to the fringes and the forgotten. what made you want to make this movie about being a homeless man? >> there are 60,000 people homeless in new york city. and by some estimates close to a million in the country. so it's a serious issue. it can be viewed as a problem or it can be viewed as a responsibility we have. >> i'm homeless. i'm nobody. i don't exist. we don't exist. >> the film "time out of mind" which made its debut in italy this past week was a dozen years in the making and labor of love for the actor with very little dialogue and long distance c

i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning." we've seen the debut of countless miracle drugs in recent years, drugs that make a world of difference, but sometimes at a steep price that can make some miracle drugs tough to swallow. we call our cover story "a bitter bill." it's reported by erin moriarty. >> reporter: ten-year-old graci diggs has spend much of her life on the sidelines in a wheelchair. >> i didn't know many kids who had arthritis at that time, so i'm like, am i the only one? >> reporter: a simple drug may be just the miracle graci needs, but it comes at a hefty price. and did those prices go up that much just simply because drug companies could do it? >> because they could do it. >> reporter: are drug companies making a killing on miracle medications? just ahead this "sunday morning." >> cowan: garrison keillor will be homeward bound after he hosts his final edition of public radio's "a prairie home companion" next weekend. first he has an appoint with us. >> i just spent a quiet week in lake wobegon, my hometown.

going, going, garrison keillor calls it a career. >> it's "sunday morning" on cbs, and here again is lee cowancowan: now you know why tig notaro's humor is a little difficult to describe. luke burbank introduces us to a woman who finds humor in just about anything, sometimes in life's least funny moments. >> i'm originally from mississippi. >> reporter: it's the little things that seem to fascinate tig notaro. >> my favorite laugh noise is the sigh after the laugh, the haaaaa. because it's like you're reminiscing about one second ago. >> reporter: notaro has been reminiscing allotted lately. >> that says >> reporter: with a memoir just out. >> i wish you a clean bill of health. >> absolutely. thank you, sir. >> . >> reporter: and an amazon tv show based largely on her life. >> where do you think your boobs are? where do you think your doctors put them when they took them off? >> i hope some recycling is out of the question. >> reporter: who first started calling you tig? >> my brother came up with the name tig when i was two. he couldn't say my real name, which is natile. >> reporter: that's s

as lee cowan. >> the opposition with leprosy. >> next time you have the urge to swear is perhaps think of taking shawn hayes name in vein. >> he's playing god. >> like a -- it is. it does feel like that. >> confessions of a comic diety, later on "sunday morning." >> osgood: our summer song this morning is song from the dead not the grateful dead, but from a band known as dead and company. anthony mason will bring it to light. >> the grateful dead's and pop star john mayer may seem like unlikely duetf. >> something to say. >> only time i ever got nauseous. >> they are the front men now for dead and company. later on "sunday morning." the band making sure the grateful dead's long strange trip goes on. >> hottest ticket on broadway this season is "ham elton" nominated for 16 tonys, this most conventional musicals came to be is the story mo ro,cc. >> alexander hamilton was the only immigrant. he came from nothing and helped forge a nation. >> we take it as given that hip-hop music is the music of the generation. >> 00 years later musical inspired as revolutionized broadway. >> from the pag

lee cowan has a look back at the lift of guns in america for sunday morning. >> reporter: the good ship may flower, not a single gun was known to survive. but they were probably there, accompanying the pilgrims to preliminary of the rock. on the fourth floor of the smithsonian's national museum of american history, they have their very own vault. >> i'm sure there's people that would give anything to come in here and see these things, right? >> yes, lots of visitors who are astounded and don't want to leave. >> reporter: david miller is curator here. he's got guns of all sizes, shapes, and cal bers. >> that one's probably from russia. >> reporter: and every one has a reason to be here. >> this would have been the type that would have been at lexington of concord. >> reporter: the plus ket is in every history book, coming to symbolize freedom. even in the musical "hamilton." guns are just part of our every day language. going off half cocked, flash in the pan, bite the bullet. they're all based in fewer arms lower. but were we born a gun loving country? she says not necessarily. >> ameri

lee cowan will introduce us to a man literally sitting on top of the world. >> i'm actually a little -- for anyone who thinks the days of the rugged explorer are gone. think again. >> i'm on the summit of mt. mt. everest! no word can describe. >> the man who has been to the ends of the earth. and the tops of them. ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: coming attraction on the summer screen is starring matthew mcconaughey tells a little known story of the civil war. michelle miller will offer us a preview. >> depending on whom you ask, vet an soldier newton knight was neither hero nor traitor. >> he provided food to destitute people. he rescued children. >> i use the term, trailer trash, to describe him. >> but for actor matthew mcconaughey knight's conscience was indisputable. the man and the myth, later on "sunday morning." >> osgood: a standing ovation is in order on the occasion of carnegie hall's 125th anniversary. mo rocca is just the man to lead it. >> how do you know you've made it? >> debut at carnegie hall. >> when you've played carnegie hall. >> everything we play here take

lee cowan reports. >> i'm going up there. soon, soon.h. >> reporter: battling your way to the tallest place on earth is an accomplishment for anyone. >> i'm on the summit of mt. everest! no words can describe. >> reporter: but mt. everest was only a 29,000-foot pit stop for climber colin o'brady, whose trip here to the top of the world -- >> stepping off the plane. >> reporter: -- actually started at the bottom of it. almost five months ago. >> we made it, we made it, we made it! >> reporter: that's colin at the south pole. he trekked there some 69 frigid miles, all on foot. weeks later -- he was doing the same thing at the north pole. climbing over ice ridges and dodging polar bear tracks along the way. >> the north pole! woo! >> reporter: it's a fair question to ask -- why? the answer, colin was in search of an adventure, called the explorer's grand flame. >> tired legs, tired body. >> reporter: it's a gruelling test of endurance, requiring not only reaching both poles, but also the summits of the tallest mountain on every continent. t

off today he was the father of the groom at his son winston's wedding yesterday in connecticut i'm lee cowans "sunday morning." today is a perfect day to look at a field of inquiry that's all in the family. generation upon generation ago, tracy smith will report our

i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning."ess miracle drugs in recent years, drugs that make a world of difference, but sometimes at a steep price that can make some miracle drugs tough to swallow. we call our cover story "a bitter bill." it's reported by erin moriarty.