CBS Sunday Morning

Today is the Centennial of Nat King Cole’s Birth

He was born in Montogmery on this date one century ago.

We’re covering a celebratory event in downtown Montgomery, and will have  a report on CBS 8 and ABC 32 at 10:00 PM tonight. But CBS News included a nice video tribute for him in their Sunday Morning program.You can watch it online HERE.   He died on February 15, 1965, aged 45. Categories: Montgomery Metro, Statewide Tags: 100th birthday, ABC…

Ted Turner Talks about his Illness, on “CBS Sunday Morning”

Ted Koppel report

“It’s a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer’s. It’s similar to that. But not nearly as bad. Alzheimer’s is fatal,” Turner told Koppel at his 113,000-acre ranch near Bozeman, Montana. “Thank goodness I don’t have that. But, I also have got, let’s – the one that’s – I can’t remember the name of it.” Watch the interview Sunday…

Jennifer Garner: The Pressure of Celebrity

Watch the Interview on CBS Sunday Morning

ACTOR JENNIFER GARNER TELLS “CBS SUNDAY MORNING” THAT TABLOID SCRUTINY PUT PRESSURE ON HER PRIVATE LIFE     Garner Opens Up About Her Family Farm, Her Childhood and New Baby Food Business Much of actor Jennifer Garner’s adult life – especially her marriage and breakup with actor Ben Affleck – has played out in the tabloid gossip columns. That intense…

Sunday Morning on CBS 8

Rolling Stone Founder on a book about him: "it’s a nasty, negative portrait...tawdry. It’s salacious."

CBS’s Anthony Mason with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. The new book by author Joe Hagan, Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine, contends that Wenner was obsessed with celebrity. The book also chronicles affairs, drug use and frequent feuds. Wenner proposed the biography idea to Hagan and cooperated with the author until he got…

Rock Quilter Credits Gees Bend Quilters

His quilts are much different from those created by the Alabamians.

Ben Venom quilt. CBS Sunday Morning this week included the story of a Houston man who makes quilts out of materials that include rock T-shirts. CBS reported his quilting journey started one day in 2006. The self-taught artist grew up listening to punk rock and heavy metal. But his life was changed forever when he went to see an exhibition…