This week on "Sunday Morning" (Feb. 12)
Host: Jane Pauley
COVER STORY: Read my lips: The art of lip syncing
Lip-sync -- that is, miming the lyrics to a pre-recorded song -- has become a national pastime. The question is not so much who lip-syncs but, as correspondent Tracy Smith reports, who doesn’t?
For more info:
- “Lip Sync Battle” (Spike TV)
- New Boston (Mass.) Lip Sync Contest
- marcweingarten.com
- “Station to Station: The Secret History of Rock & Roll on Television” by Marc Weingarten (Gallery Books)
- Sirius-XM: Volume - Music That Rocks
- musical.ly
- The DigiTour
ALMANAC: Fossil hunter Barnum Brown | Watch Video
On February 12, 1873, the man who would discover the skeleton of the previously-unknown Tyrannosaurus Rex was born. Jane Pauley reports.
For more info:
- Barnum Brown Society
- Museum at Prairiefire, Overland Park, Kan.
- American Museum of Natural History, New York City
BOOKS: The seductive allure of romance novels | Watch Video
To her students at New York’s Fordham University, she is professor Mary Bly. But to legions of readers, she’s author Eloisa James, a reigning queen of romance fiction.
Faith Salie discusses the English scholar’s surprising double life, as she explores the sex, love, empowerment and HEAs (the “happily ever afters”) of romance novels.
For more info:
- eloisajames.com
- Mary Bly, Fordham University
- Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (blog)
- The Ripped Bodice, Culver City, Calif.
- beverlyjenkins.net
FASHION: Michael Kors: Still on the cutting edge | Watch Video
It seems hard to imagine, but at one time, Michael Kors almost lost it all. The fashion designer who showed his first season when he was 21 years old was forced to rebuild his brand in the 1990s. He would also go on to appear for 10 years on the reality series “Project Runway.”
Today, at 57, with couture and lower-priced lines and an empire of nearly 800 stores, Kors is worth an estimated $1 billion. He talks with Rita Braver about his most valuable life lesson: stick to your guts and stay focused.
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PASSAGE: Professor Irwin Corey | Watch Video
The disheveled comic was renowned as the “world’s foremost authority” (according to himself). Jane Pauley reports.
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AMUSEMENTS: Pinball in back and running full tilt (Video)
Anyone who’s ever played pinball knows it takes skill, and a little luck. Now the blast from the past is catching on with a new generation. Ben Tracy delivers his hands-on report.
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MO ROCCA: Embracing the bro hug (Video)
At the NFL Draft these past few years, you may have noticed players and officials trading more than handshakes. It’s a hybrid handshake-hug, called the “bro hug.” Mo Rocca meets with some young men who have fully embraced this expression of male bonding, and explores other forms of male interpersonal communication, such as dapping.
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hugging at the office?
In a conversation with professors Mark Morman and Kory Floyd, experts in interpersonal communication, correspondent Mo Rocca explains why he is against hugging his colleagues at work. (We won’t take it personally.)
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The secret of dapping
Photographer LaMont Hamilton and choreographer André Zakery - old hands at dapping - explain the meaning behind the greeting popular among African American males.
For more info:
- Kory Floyd, University of Arizona
- Mark Morman, Baylor University
- Phi Kappa Chi, Baylor University
- lamonthamilton.com
- Andre Zachery, Gibney Dance
- “Five on the Black Hand Side/Dapline!” (Renegade Performance Group)
- The Origins of the DAP (University Settlement)
HARTMAN: Couple’s second chance shows how love outlasts death (Video)
Joe Leifken’s dying wish was to take his wife out to dinner at her favorite restaurant one more time. Steve Hartman reports on how he pulled it off, cheating death.
“THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE…”: Emma Stone: Dancing among the stars, firmly planted on Earth | Watch Video
With an Oscar nomination for the musical “La La Land,” the actress mixes drive and determination with homespun gratitude. Lee Cowan reports.
WEB EXTRA: Extended interview transcript with Emma Stone
For more info:
- “La La Land” (Official site)
- Valley Youth Theatre, Phoenix
TAKE NOTE: Lori McKenna, a Yankee at home in country music’s capital | Watch Video
Singer-songwriter Lori McKenna is a Yankee -- born, raised and still living in the Boston suburb of Stoughton, a long way from the Grand Ole Opry. Yet she is one of the most successful writers of country and folk hits for such artists as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban and Little Big Town.
Mark Strassmann sits down with McKenna, who is up for four Grammy Awards Sunday, including Best Country Song (for McGraw’s “Humble and Kind”).
For more info:
- lorimckenna.com
“The Bird & the Rifle” by Lori McKenna (CN Records); Available via Amazon and iTunes
NATURE: Frogs (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning serenaded by boreal chorus frogs, on the shores of Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming. Videographer: Judy Lehmberg.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
CALENDAR: Week of February 13 | Watch Video
Jane Pauley takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.
NATURE UP CLOSE: Cathedral Caverns
NATURE UP CLOSE: Wildlife in the Teton Range
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