This week on "Sunday Morning" (January 15)
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Host: Jane Pauley
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COVER STORY: Maryland's new governor Wes Moore on the power of second chances | Watch Video
A former Army captain, bestselling author, anti-poverty advocate and first-time political candidate, Wes Moore will be sworn in this week as Maryland's first African American governor. Correspondent Kelefa Sanneh talks with Moore about his unique career path to the governor's residence in Annapolis.
For more info:
- "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore (One World), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
SPORTS: Rolley Hole, the "Super Bowl of marbles" (Video)
Every year at Standing Stone State Park in Tennessee, the Rolley Hole Marbles National Championship is held, pitting marbles enthusiasts against one another in a game steeped in tradition and built on arcane, even confusing rules. Correspondent Luke Burbank reports.
For more info:
- Standing Stone State Park, Hilham, Tenn.
- Historic Clay County Courthouse
- Tennessee Arts Commission
- Rolley Hole Marbles (Smithsonian Magazine)
TECH: Art created by artificial Intelligence: "Frightening and fascinating all at the same time" | Watch Video
DALL-E is one of several artificial intelligence software programs that can turn anything you type, no matter how absurd, into art, in any style you like, drawing from hundreds of millions of images in its database. And with this technological advance come some serious downsides. Correspondent David Pogue looks at how AI is changing the game in graphics, interior design, architecture, fashion and movie-making, while causing artists to worry about protecting their creative livelihood.
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SUNDAY PROFILE: Pamela Anderson on surviving tabloids, paparazzi, and the infamous sex tape | Watch Video
In a new memoir, "Love, Pamela," and a documentary to debut on Netflix, "Baywatch" icon Pamela Anderson reveals details about traumas she suffered as a child, and during a life lived in the harsh spotlight of the paparazzi. At her home on Vancouver Island, Anderson talks with correspondent Jim Axelrod about her notorious sex tape whose leak, she said, was "hurtful," and about how being a mother helped her survive becoming tabloid fodder.
For more info:
- "Love, Pamela" by Pamela Anderson (Dey Street Books), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available January 31 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
- "Pamela, A Love Story" debuts on Netflix January 31
PASSAGE: Jeff Beck, Lisa Marie Presley, and Bernard Kalb | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back on the lives of three unique personalities who left us this week: legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck; singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of "the King of Rock 'n' Roll"; and veteran broadcast journalist and author Bernard Kalb.
ART: "Modigliani Up Close": Revealing secrets of the master | Watch Video
Curators and conservators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia have unearthed secrets hidden under layers of paint on masterpieces by famed Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Their findings are a part of an exhibition, "Modigliani Up Close." Correspondent Serena Altschul pays a visit.
For more info:
- Exhibition: "Modigliani Up Close," at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (through January 29)
- Exhibition catalogue: "Modigliani Up Close," edited by Barbara Buckley, Simonetta Fraquelli, Nancy Ireson, and Annette King (Barnes Foundation), in Hardcover, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
- modigliani.org
MOVIES: The real-life "80 for Brady" fans | Watch Video
Friends Betty Pensavalle and Elaine St. Martin were founding members of a passionate fan club devoted to NFL quarterback Tom Brady, comprised of women of a certain age, called "Over 80 for Brady." They inspired a new motion picture comedy, "80 for Brady," starring Hollywood veterans Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Lily Tomlin. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with the Brady fans, and with the stars who played Brady fans, about football, friendship, and the power of Tom.
To watch a trailer for "80 for Brady" click on the video player below:
For more info:
- "80 for Brady" opens in theaters February 3
HARTMAN: At a Minn. school, fixing accessibility is child's play (Video)
Glen Lake Elementary, in Hopkins, Minnesota, has students with physical disabilities, but no wheelchair merry-go-round, swings, or other adaptive playground equipment whatsoever. Which really bothered the kids in Betsy Julien's 5th grade class, to the point where one day they asked her if they could just buy the equipment themselves. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on how the students dove head-first into fixing a $300,000 problem.
HISTORY: "Master Slave Husband Wife": A startling tale of escape from slavery | Watch Video
In the 1840s Ellen Craft, an enslaved woman in Macon, Georgia, feared that her father – who was her White enslaver – would claim any child she bore as his property, and so she and her husband, also enslaved, embarked on a remarkable ruse. Fleeing the South, she masqueraded as a male White slaveowner accompanied by "his" slave. Correspondent Mark Whitaker talks with Ilyon Woo, author of "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom," and with Peggy Preacely, the couple's great-great granddaughter.
READ AN EXCERPT: "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo
For more info:
- "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" by Ilyon Woo (Simon & Schuster), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available January 17 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
- ilyonwoo.com
- Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
- African American Cultural Center of Long Beach, Long Beach, Calif.
- Boston Public Library
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Savannah College of Art and Design
NATURE: Songbirds in snow (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday with songbirds in the snowy woods near Buffalo, N.Y. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Russell Banks, novelist and moralist (Video)
Russell Banks, author of such bestsellers as "Affliction," "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Continental Drift," died on January 7 at age 82. Watch Martha Teichner's 1995 "Sunday Morning" interview with Banks in which he talks about writing of marginalized people, such as the characters in his novel "Rule of the Bone," and of capturing the "magical importance" in their lives.
"HERE COMES THE SUN": First sister Valerie Biden Owens and a Black culinary exhibit (Video)
Valerie Biden Owens sits down with Norah O'Donnell to discuss how she has supported her big brother, Joe, over the years. We also take you to a new exhibit called "African/American: Making the Nation's Table," located in the Museum of Food and Drink in New York City, where we learn how Black culture shaped American cuisine.
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