This week on "Sunday Morning" (March 21)
Host: Jane Pauley
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COVER STORY: MasterClass: In a class of its own | Watch Video
Students of the online instruction course MasterClass have gained knowledge from some of the world's leading actors, writers, filmmakers, athletes and others sharing their wisdom and experience. Correspondent David Pogue talks with CEO David Rogier about the popularity of MasterClass during lockdown, and with instructors Helen Mirren and Penn & Teller about reaching an audience passionate for their expertise.
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FAMILY: An adoption tale – uncovering a lifelong secret | Watch Video
In the post-war years, social mores forced more than three million unwed mothers into what has been characterized as an adoption industry. Correspondent Rita Braver talks with two families who, late in life, discovered their shared connection owing to a young woman having been forced to give up her baby.
READ AN EXCERPT: "American Baby" by Gabrielle Glaser
For more info:
- "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption" by Gabrielle Glaser (Viking), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound
- gabrielleglaser.com
ART: Frank Stella on his artistic obsessions | Watch Video
The 84-year-old abstract artist's giant star sculptures, now on display in Connecticut, exhibit a life of their own. Martha Teichner reports.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Frank Stella brings art to a new dimension (Video)
Artist Frank Stella, the painter-sculptor-builder who has consistently pushed against the boundaries of art (and the partiality of art critics) discusses his penchant for outsized sculptures and painted reliefs with correspondent Martha Teichner, in this profile which originally aired on "CBS Sunday Morning" October 21, 2007.
For more info:
- Frank Stella (artnet)
- "Frank Stella's Stars, A Survey" at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn. (through May 9)
- 1969 photographs of Frank Stella in his New York studio © Malcolm Lubliner
MUSIC: Demi Lovato on life after surviving overdose: I had to "essentially die to wake up" | Watch Video
Three years after a near-fatal drug overdose, singer Demi Lovato opens up to correspondent Tracy Smith about how she barely survived. She talks about her new YouTube documentary series, "Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil," and how she is now feeling more joy in her life than ever before.
To watch a trailer for the YouTube Originals documentary "Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil" click on the video player below:
For more info:
- demilovato.com
- Part 1 of the documentary series "Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil" debuts on YouTube March 23
- The album "Dancing With the Devil … The Art of Starting Over" by Demi Lovato, available April 2, for pre-order click here
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including actor Yaphet Kotto, star of "Live and Let Die" and "Alien."
SCIENCE: The return of "extinct" species | Watch Video
Every once in a while, what's been lost can be found again, as when a species believed extinct is sighted. In the midst of a human-caused extinction crisis, correspondent Conor Knighton reports on efforts to keep hope alive, by finding and re-establishing species that have all but disappeared.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: In search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Video)
When word spread in Arkansas of a sighting of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker – a bird thought extinct – "Sunday Morning" correspondent Steve Hartman took up the challenge to capture it on video, if he could find one. In this report, which originally aired October 2, 2005, Hartman traveled to Clarendon, Arkansas, and braved snake-infested swamps, only to discover that a rare bird does not give up its location easily.
For more info:
- "The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker" by Tim Gallagher (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound
- International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species
- "Extinct or Alive" (Discover+)
- Black Footed Ferret (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Black-Footed Ferret Connections (blackfootedferret.org)
MOVIES: Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal on making "Love Story" | Watch Video
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz interviews the stars of the classic tearjerker, "Love Story," to talk about the making of an unlikely box office blockbuster, and asks: What does "Love means never having to say you're sorry" really mean?
For more info:
- "Love Story," available on a newly-restored Blu-Ray release from Paramount Home Entertainment; it also can be streamed on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu
SPORTS: Place your bets: March Madness and the growth of sports gambling | Watch Video
From Vegas casinos to office pools, an estimated 47 million Americans will be betting on the "March Madness" college basketball tournament this month. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with legendary sportscaster Brent Musburger and hopeful bettors about the allure of sportsbooks, and with government officials who are rolling the dice on generating tax revenues from legalized gambling.
For more info:
- Circa Casino Sportsbook, Las Vegas
- Circa Online (circasports.com)
- VSiN: The Sports Betting Network
- Colorado Water Conservation Board
- Follow the "March Madness" NCAA tournament on CBS Sports
ART: Ancient art returns to public view in Rome | Watch Video
One of the most important private collections of antiquities, hidden away for decades, is being put on public display once again. Correspondent Seth Doane gets a private tour of the legendary Torlonia Marbles – treasures of ancient Greek and Roman art – being exhibited at Rome's Capitoline Museum.
For more info:
- The Torlonia Marbles, Torlonia Foundation, Rome
- Exhibition: "The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting Masterpieces" at Capitoline Museum, Rome
- Darius Arya
- Ancient Rome Live
- "The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting Masterpieces" by Salvatore Settis and Carlo Gasparri (Rizzoli/Electa), in Hardcover, available via Amazon and Indiebound
NATURE: Newts (Extended Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes us to a Redwood forest and creek in Los Gatos, California, a quiet home for the humble newt. Videographer: Lance Milbrand.
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