>> strings of xs and os are traditional flourish to valentines. the revival of a play may keep the tradition of love letters alive. >> how do you bring back a play about love letters in the era of e-mail? >> i know you more from your letters than i do inner. >> by reuniting one of hollywood's most famous couples. >> love means never having to say you're sorry. >> ryan o'neal and ale mcgraw for the first time since love story. >> the audience murmurs. they remember us. >> ahead this "sunday morning," the love letter standing the test of time. c she writes the songs that many of the big e performers of our time want to sing much her name is diane warren. this morning she and lady gaga >> you've worked with everyone, faith him, christina ago layer i can't, celine dion. >> she is a song writing machine. >> you've been called the song whisperer, do you like that? >> i love that. i think i am. >> we sit down with songwriter diane warren talk about her new collaboration with lady gaga. >> i know i feel really and truly like i bared my soul. >> ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: here's a question for loving couples to ponder. could anything be better than sex? anna werner has traveled to key west to find out. >> what could be better than sex? one restaurant may just have the answer. >> better than some sex that's for sure. >> unbelievable. a restaurant with a tall order. c tracy smith talks love songs and more with singer chris iksaak. mo rocca takes in a first families' reunion. steve hartman visits the museum for two. here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 14th of february. 2016. president obama has ordered flags at half staff at federal buildings following the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia. scalia, the leader of the court's conservative justices, died yesterday while at a texas hunting resort, of natural causes. he was 79. scalia is survived by his wife and nine children. more on his passing just ahead after a moment of silence to honor the late justice, the six remaining republican presidential contenders were back at it last night. "face the nation's" john dickerson, saw clashes on a number of subjects. here's a sampling. >> well, donald trump is building a reality tv show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe. >> world trade center came down during -- >> number of weeks now just been telling lies. ted cruz supported legalizing -- >> that is simply -- only now -- that is simply -- ese attacks some of them are personal. i think we're fixing to lose the election to hillary clinton if we don't stop this. >> osgood: donald trump and marco rubio are john dickerson's guest this morning on "face the nation" along with democratic candidate bernie sanders. the magnitude 5.1 perth quake shook parts of oklahoma and 134 other states yesterday. the more frequent quakes have region. hours later a 5.8 quake shook christchurch, new zealand. no reports as yet of major damage or injuries there. a weather-related chain collision on pennsylvania's interstate 78 left three dead and sent dozens to the hospitals yesterday. the highway was closed for hours. now here is today's weather. arctic air across the east is putting a chill on valentine's day. it's brutally cold, especially in the northeast. there's a chance of ice and snow from minnesota to kentucky. tomorrow, more of the same. but warm and sunny as usual in the southwest. antonin scalia. >> osgood: as you heard supreme court justice antonin scalia died yesterday at the age of 79. his passing marks the end of a remarkable career. it also portends a contentious fight to replace him. here's marcia teichner. >> i could be charming and cattive at the same time. what's contradictory between the two. i love to argue. something of ashine-kicker. >> antonin scalia has been described as blunt, wit tee, scathing, sarcastic and even by his adversaries brilliant. >> he will be remembered as one of the most consequential judges and thinksers to serve on the supremer. >> i care about the original meaning -- >> he believed in what he called originallallism. that the u.s. constitution should be interpreted exactly as the founding fathers understood it. this is what he told lesley interview. >> i'm not saying no progress, i'm saying we should progress democratically. you think there ought to be a right to abortion, no problem. the constitution says nothing about it. create it the way most rights are created in a democratic seat, pass a law. >> in three decades, on the conservatism. first time that the 2nd amendment gave americans the right to own a gun for self defense, one of his many majority opinions. his dissents were often withering. the opinion legalizing gay marriage he said, "is as preten shall as its content is egotistic." whenever anyone questioned the court's decision in bush versus gore, the case that determined the outcome of the 20000 presidential election, he relied -- >> we did the right thing. so there. [ laughter ] >> born in trenton, new jersey, antonin scalia grew up in new york city in queens. the only child of an immigrant from sicily. he met his wife, maureen, while he was at harvard law school. devoted catholics, they have nine children. president ronald reagan appointed him to the supreme as prickley ascii be, scalia was well liked among his colleagues. >> i attack ideas. i don't attack people. and some very good people have some very bad ideas. >> his best friends on the court, liberal justices elena kagan and ruth bader ginsburg. that's ginsburg and scalia together on an elephant. >> as annoyed as you might be about his zinging dissent he's so utterly charming. so amusing, so sometimes outrageous, you can't help but saying, i'm glad that he's my friend or he's my colleague. >> he always insisted that his judicial philosophy was dictated by the constitution only. but his death instantly turned the political arena bloody. >> i plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor. appointment could tip the 5-4 majority from conservative to liberal. the republicans' position, absolutely clear at last night's g.o.p. debate. in south carolina. >> i think that we ought to let the next president of the united states decide. >> the senate needs to stand strong and say, we're not going to give up the u.s. supreme court for a generation by allowing barack obama to make one more liberal appointee. >> delay, delay, delay. >> antonin scalia loved a good fight. the battle over who names his successor on the supreme court will be huge. where the polar bears are. terry bradshaw? what a surprise! you know what else is a surprise? shingles. and how it can hit you out of nowhere. i know. i had it. c'mon let's sit down and talk about it. and did you know that one in three people will get shingles? 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>> well, it's pretty common to see polar bears out here this time of year. but it's not as common to see a big old male like that come ray down next to the buggy. it's pretty impressive sight. >> the buggy is a tundra buggy, a cross between a tour bus and monster truck. and it's where steve amstrup does much of his work as chief scientist for polar bears international. a private group campaigning for the bear's conservation. >> what do you think when that? >> well, you know, i've been working with polar bears for 35 years now. and i still, every time i see them it's, holy cow there's a real wild polar bear. they're just incredible creatures. >> we're near churchill, manitoba, a frontier town that calls its the polar bear capital of the world. it is isolated to be sure, you can't even get to this town by road. but every fall these giants of the north come here in droves to wait for hudson bay to frees back over so they can start eating again. the polar bear's main source of way to hunt from the ice above. they're choi line grows on land, another migration rolls up to watch. a quiet stampede of eco-tourists anxious to catch a glimpse of an animal whose future is as hotly debated as climate change itself. >> in the united states, we have listed polar bears as a threatened species under the u.s. endangered species act. they were listed as threatened not necessarily because of their current status, but because of what we anticipate their future status to be. >> and what he anticipates their future status might be has amstrup worried, but he knows not everyone is wringing their hands. currently it's estimated there are between 0-25,000 polar business in the wild. to many that's a sizable number and some of the bears, especially in the upper reaches of the arctic seem to be doing quite well. body weight or two pounds of body weight for every day they're on land. >> every day. >> what concerns amstrup the most are the bears here. who he says are experiencing the effects of climate change right now. >> these guys are on land now a whole month longer than they were just 30 years ago. we could say, well, yeah, one population might be doing well now but we know that soon, all of the populations will have less sea ice than they do now, some of them will have no sea ice. >> those who track sea ice levels, like the national snow and ice data center, say the seasonal ice here in the southern most region of the polar bear's habitat is already melting earlier and freezing later. that means bears are marooned on land longer and getting hungrier. >> how long has he gone without eating a full meal? >> they came ashore this year i think about the middle of july. so he really hasn't had much to >> in november, when weep were there, the bears were spend can most of their time just lounging about, trying to conserve energy, which makes them pretty easy to find and photograph. let's face it, nothing makes for better photo op than a scratching, relaxing polar bear. while they look as friendly as they are fuzzy, truth is, they are one of nature's perfect killing machines. they're enormous size and strength are part of the allure. >> so many people have told me now this is eir bucket list. >> kevin burke one of churchill's few locals and he takes great joy in showing tourists his frozen back yard. >> a loft activity lately as the new ice forms in the bears are out checking the ice, let's go down there and check it out. >> he drives one of those tundra buggies for frontiers north an adventure tourism company the chance of a lifetime. >> oh, my, god. >> the bears don't seem to mind the in trucks in fact many are down right curious of the continue bra buggies. on occasion a bit too curious. >> a lot of times through the years i've watched they will push back get on the ground and walk along stuff like that. my opinion is, i don't think we smell all that appealing to them. >> we night not smell too appealing but the food in town does. they're warning signs posted everywhere, reminding the town's residents to be "bear aware" as they call it and we quickly found out why. >> they're getting way to close to mike now. >> this mom and her two cubs wandered right up behind us on a busy road just outside of town. >> she came within few feet of our camera, don't need to be chased by another car of lookie lews back into the trees. is it safe to walk around churchill? >> i'd say it's safe to walk around churchill in the day. i wouldn't say so at night. >> brett wlock is a mother conservation officer. >> right over here you can see them walking. >> his job? to keep polar bears away from people. >> which is a good sign. >> we want that to happen. >> if they can't scare the nuisance bears away, they capture them. >> so back here is where we keep one of our traps. 50-06% of the bears that we capture have been at this trap. >> the wayward bears are brought polar bear jail. to make sure they're not tempted to come back to up to again the bears are given no food. just water. >> we don't want them to associate neighborhood to humans or to that building. we're going to hold them nor 30 days. that's 30 days closer to the time the ice is going to form on the bay which is when they are going to hunt seals. also 0 days away from the problem behavior that caused them to go there in the first place. >> when their sentence is up they're tranquilized then airlifted back out into the tundra. not lost on anyone here is the carbon footprint left behind by those who travel all this way to witness all things polar bear. >> all l the tourists that show up does that help or snort. >> i think that for many people seeing how things are now and hearing how they used to be. in seeing the magnificent species of the polar bear right in front of them, suddenly they can become inspired in a way that they might never have become inspired before. i studied polar bears in alaska for most of my adult life. and one of the last things that i did was predict that they were going to disappear. so, it's a little hard for me to talk about to think that they might be gone. i don't want to think about that. so i want to do what i can to stop it. and i think we are, i think we are making progress. >> most agree progress was made at the global climate change conference in paris l year. when representatives of 195 nations agreed for the very first time to, lower in the meantime, the polar bears here, and all around the vast reaches of the arctic, will continue to do what they have always done. whatever conditions are thrown their way. >> osgood: ahead. >> migrate, great grandfather was the first cousin. >> the ninth generation of president thomas jefferson and -- >> osgood: all the presidents' relatives. for more than 145 years, pacific life has been providing solutions to help individuals like you achieve long-term financial security. bring your vision for the future to life with pacific life. talk to a financial advisor to help build and protect your retirement income. pacific life. the power to help you succeed. they smell really fresh what if we told you we washed these sheets 7 days ago. really? 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>> for starters it's the annual meeting place for relatives of past u.s. presidents. >> i'm the great granddaughter of president calvin coolidge. >> migrate, great grandfather was the first cousin of james descendent of thomas jefferson. >> every spinning presidential descendants descend on this quaint town. >> president clinton's step father, roger clinton my grand fare roy clinton's little brother. >> see the resemblance. its you and mary todd lincoln. >> yes. >> they all come to celebrate their heritage. partisanship is put on hold. >> this is really the one day a year that a half brother-in-law of president john f. kennedy can rubble bows with the niece of president richard nixon? >> yes. >> i think it's pretty special. >> what happens there, though is -- >> in marshfield, all presidential progeny are welcome. >> i'm bertram hayes-davis i'm a great, great grandson of jefferson davis president of the confederate states of america. >> and old grievances are set aside. this is a great scene. you have descendent of thomas jefferson with a descendent of you guys are friendly? >> we got to know each other. we were just talking about him coming to visit us in new york. come on, when are you coming? >> it involves very fond. >> george cleveland is president grover cleveland's grandson. ournd and -- >> and 24th president. >> that's right. it crews up the whole account. >> there's something abut being a presidential descendent that only presidential descendants can understand. >> it was reverend nicholas inman's idea. >> they found camaraderie between one another that is pretty amazing, you know. it was kind of a story of, my grandpa beat your grand pennsylvania but we can be friends now. >> inman was in the fourth grade when our 41st president came to town. >> president george h.w. bush visited marshfield july of 1991. the president. >> wait a minute, who is that over there? why it's karolyn grimes. zuzu from "it's a wonderful life." >> daddy. an angel gets his wings. >> she's here because the missouri mary blossom festival also honors stars of classic films and sitcoms. just go with it. >> legend is being pretty lucky. >> there's maguey petersen she played charlene on the "andy griffith show". >> over there that's lulu roman from hee haw. >> the did a president ever appear on hee haw? >> jimmy carter did. >> and yes, that's marry mcdonough two of the daughters from the wall tons. >> virginia not even contiguous >> , no but the ozarks are hills. mountains are hills. >> it's like you took u.s. history and culture and missouri and put them all in a a blender. >> they exploded. >> adding to the excitement, marshfield has its own walk of fame. >> really was supposed to be a three hour tour. >> where we caught up with none other than dawn wells. >> imagine. >> mary anne from "gilligan's island." >> i'm right here. >>pretty good. who am i next to? >> two stars away from charles lindbergh. pretty great. you like flying, i hope. >> better than sailing. >> and this april, it will happen all over again. >> they have become a family now. connections might be made. maybe i'm related to thomas jefferson, too. >> he did have a loft kids. you never know. >> you're part of the family, pop on, cuz. >> one big family. >> osgood: still to come. chris isaak sings his heart out. songwriter diane warren. >> osgood: "wicked game" was a 1990 chris isaak hit about obsessive love. all these years later songs about love still draw a crowd. tracy smith talks with chris isaak for the record. >> on a bone-chilling day in san francisco a few weeks back, hundreds of people stood in the cold just to see local boy, chris isaak, run through a sound check. the show was still hours away, melancholy best. i bet you never even know they do but somebody's crying >> for more than 30 years the 59-year-old singer has been making hits and breaking hearts. crooning about bad break ups and lost love with the signature sound that's part rock, part elvis and all sexy. so many of your songs are about heartache. why is that? >> that's what brings out the most emotion in this world. love or lack of. when you're heart's broken i emotional as it gets. isaak says this song, his hunting 1989 single "wicked game" came to him one night in a flash. >> it was very fast i wrote that song. >> how fast? >> between the time i talked to a certain woman and hung up the phone and the time she rang the front door bell in the middle of the night. i had written that song. >> knock it off, really? >> it was very fast. very fast. >> the song was first big hit and helped make him an instant sex symbol. but the steamy music video that went with it shot on location in hawaii with model helena christianson was even hotter than it looked. was like a smoke added in the back projection or something like that. that's actually -- we're standing about 30 feet from the water on a lava flo it was flowing boot ocean behind us and boiling up, steam. we could have got killed. we could have got killed. it was blowing up big like thongs of molmet like lava. every once in awhile we go -- like into the air everybody was like, heads up. >> oh, my, goodness. you risked your life for that >> yeah. i learned something. just because there's a camera get killed. >> truth is not much scares him any more. chris isaak grew up on the tough side of stockton, california, the youngest of three boys. dad drove a forklift. mom was a factory worker who stretched every paycheck by >> wasn't just going for fun we would -- that's where we got our clothes and we got everything. my grandparents grew up here. my great grandparents are here. and i don't know how -- usually in a town when you have somebody's great grandparents there, they own the town. in my town we managed to stay broke for generation after generation. i don't know, that was -- excuse me, one second. that might fit. >> try it. >> not me. >> i got a big head. >> he's worn a lot of different hats. in college he was an amateur boxer and made amateur music with a guitar his big brother, nick, had taught him to play. >> one night he says, teach me what you know. and i taught him everything i know. it took 15 minutes. >> those guitar lessons stuck. isaak has been touring since the it's his last. he's taking a break for the occasional movie and tv role. including his own cable tv show. >> i'll be right back. adios. >> how close was showtime chris isaak to the real chris isaak? >> how close is bullwinkle to a real moose? >> spanned times when he's not singing for a crowd, chris isaak sings here. at his boyhood home in stockton. with his now 85-year-old mom, dorothy. >> then usually at the end she dances for quarters. >> he still comes home and does things around the house for you. >> cleans the yard. >> he cleans the yard? >> i miss that. >> when he's on the road you don't get that treatment. >> i'm a good yard worker. his own back yard is a few miles away in san francisco. yet his favorite surfing beach. >> how much time do you spend out here? >> i try to get out as often as i can. not like i'm a brain surge surgeon, i'm a songwriter, nobody needs me during the day. >> he is usually out here alone he's never been married but that doesn't mean he can't commit. isaak has been with some of the guys in his band for something like 30 years. drummer kenny dale johnson never missed a gig until an illness nearly broke up the act. >> kenny got cancer he took off a little while and he's come back. there's happy ending to it. he's good. he's over it. >> cancer free? >> that gets you. >> scares the hell out of me. >> turns out the great loves of chris isaak's life, besides his family, are his band mates. and the feeling that comes from singing his heart out. you were joking with your mom about how you guys wept out and played and some guy said, oh, yeast, that's chris isaak. >> that's a true story. >> what did you say. >> my brother said, girls turns to the guy says, that's chris isaak. the guy said, yeah, he used to be big. >> he used to be big. does that bug you? >> not at all. i think it's fun. it's funny. i'm not at all bothered, i'm really happy with the way my >> because you joke -- don't want to tempt the gods down here because if they do they look, that guy, he's had too much luck. everything good here, boss. everybody good here. you look at other people, i'm doing great. >> osgood: just ahead, comedian, paul reiser. >> it's valentine's day again. >> osgood: not quite feeling the love. with non-insulin victoza . for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza . he said victoza works differently than pills. and comes in a pen. victoza is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. it's taken once a day, any time. victoza is not for weight loss, lose some weight. victoza is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. it is not recommended as the first medication to treat diabetes and should not be used in people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. victoza has not been studied with mealtime insulin. victoza is not insulin. do not take victoza if you have a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to victoza or any of its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include itching rash, or difficulty breathing. tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. serious side effects may happen in people who take victoza , including inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis). stop taking victoza and call your doctor right away if you have signs of pancreatitis, in your abdomen or from your abdomen to your back, with or without vomiting. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. taking victoza with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. the most common side effects are headache, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. if your pill isn't giving you the control you need ask your doctor about non-insulin victoza . it's covered by most health plans. >> osgood: now does anyone not love valentine's day? let's let actor and comedian paul reiser count the ways. >> well, here we are. it's valentine's day again and i thing irritating. not because i'm a curmudgeon or anti-love, quite the opposite. i'll a big fan of love. i just don't like being told by strangers that i have to demonstrate it on this day in the following ways. unless you're in the flower, chocolate, jewelry or greeting card business, i don't see how you benefit if you're a grown up anyway. if you're in second grade, sure. why not give a sweetheart shaped card and piece of candy to the cute girl two rows behind you. that's been ruined by the whole mandatory, we don't want anyone to feel left out so give cards to the whole class approach. because nothing says, i think you're special, i made 34 of these. for young people it's sweet. because they don't know anything yet. but for grownups, i've learned that these grand, lovely gestures invariably mean nothing. yes, forgetting spread can be bad. but remembering it not that much better. is shockingly short. whatever goodwill you think you'll entender only lasts until it all goes bad. guys are always surprised by this. you do something loving and thoughtful and your loved one is moved. and demonstrably affectionate in return, all good. next day, one carelessly worded comment and you're right back where you started. you think, what about the flowers and the candy? yeah, that was yesterday. i didn't care for what you said this morning. you have to ask, what's the point of a great sunday if it's all shot to hell by monday? it's like vacuuming the beach. you never really make any progress. fortunately one of the first things my wife and i bonded over when we first met, ironically, was our mutual distaste for valentine's day. we both felt it's far more meaningful to be affectionate, tholeful and considered the other 364 days of the year. that's the more noble challenge. in our house we don't even celebrate valentine's day which is great relief. pick up some flowers anyway, because, why take a chance. pro coming up the stars of "love on love letters.tball play, a game of tic-tac-toe or a love letter. serena altschul now sells us keeping the love letter alive is the goal of stage play with uniquely qualified cast. >> my father says everyone should write letters as much as they can. it's a dying art. he says letters are a way of presenting yourself in the best possible light to another person. i think that, too. >> forget about texts and tweets. having its moment again in a national tour of ar gurney's 1989 play "love letters." >> oh, andy, could i see you? you're all i have left. >> audience around the country have been lining up to see ali mcgraw and ryan o'neil, cleverley cast as the show's star-crossed lovers melissa and andy. >> i went to a psychiatrist i'd talk about you. seriously, i would. i think about you quite often. >> it's the first time the two have worked together since "love story" the legendary 1970 tear jerker that was a box office smash. >> i'm sorry. love means never having to say you're sorry. >> we step out, the audience murmurs. they murmur because they know us. they remember us. when they saw that movie. they married or they had children or they named their children after us. >> please hold me. >> i believe that the audiences, whether it's conscious or subconscious are throwing themselves back those 40 years, which for most of us was so much more innocent, so much more romantic, so much more full of hope than it is right now. >> nostalgia is in the air as o'neil and mcgraw play characters reading the letters they sent one another over the course of 50 years. >> merry christmas and happy new year and much love. >> much love? much love? god, andy, how sexy. >> playwright ar gurney. if you think their relationship could exist today over text and e-mails? >> i don't think so. i don't think so. e-mail different than a handwritten ink -- >> because it doesn't have the personal nature of the penmanship. it doesn't have the sense of thought, since when you're writing with a pen, you're thinking about what you're doing. >> handwriting, the smell of the page are very powerful essences for me. >> like poetry. and truth. and guts about feelings. >> real courage. not just platitude. >> i wrote you every day for a year. >> you wrote me? >> yes. from the notebook. >> it was you to cyrano de bergerac who understood the power of words. >> the dear foolish words. that was you. >> love letters have long had special place in our hearts. but in this era of always on, instant commununation, are love of the rotary phone. dennis depcik worries they are. he and his wife, maggie, were married for 41 years. shortly after she died, dennis found a mysterious box in the closet. >> i brought the box down and put it on the bed andd opened it. and stood there absolutely stunned. in that box were all the letters that maggie and i had written to each other when i was in the army. there were 119 letters in that box. please don't apologize for not being able to answer all my lettersy want to you feel that you owe me a letter. i write you because i enjoy it, silly. and just seeing that handwriting and knowing that it was always there through our entire married life just brought her back to me. my hands were shaking. it was -- just amazing. >> patrick geraghty and christie da mel never wrote letters to one another but that didn't stop their romance from blossoming. when it came time to find a gift for the couple's first anniversary, patrick got creative. >> full history by text. >> patrick printed those text messages and had them und in a hard cover album. thousands of messages chronicling their entire relationship from the day they first met to their first anniversary. >> this is two weeks in. you're amazing. how do we manage this. this is so unreal. then you canretain me. we sasa that, th's so embarrassing. >> is that something important to you that you have this concrete thing now? >> i think so. i think it's a nice little when we're not here you know our kids have this -- ey can kinda look back how mom and d dd met and the conversation, is that they had. some of it, but -- >> maybe not all of 'em. >> no. >> even if writing love letters is going out of style, love letters, the play, seems as popular as ever. in the 5 years since it first appeared on broadway, it's been staged hundreds of times in more than 40 countries. d then the show came to boston this month. o'neil and mcgraw returned to harvard. >> remember us? >> where that other couple they're famous for playing first met and fell in love. >> i like to go to the movies ther than watchingng it onon my laptop. >> eaking to studts, some still glued to thr smart phones, they made the case for the old-fashioned way. >> only with letter writing don't see how you could text this story to each other. >> this letter, which i'm writing with my own hand, with my own pen i i mymy own nmanship comes from me an no one else. >> i don't think they're going to go away. i don't think as a decades accrue that there are lot of people who really are going to put that time in. but there are some of us. >> you can tear me up and they me out or keep me. and read me. today, tomorrow, any time you wantntuntil you die. >>oh, bo andy. tove melissa. at a museum, with heart. >> osgood: we celebrate love in any number of ways. steve hartman takes us to a museum for two. >> around starkville, mississippi, retired mail carrier charles evans is known mostly for his questionable taste in lawn furnishings. but i came here for something >> the man with the plan. >> charles met his wife louise back in 1949. >> when you looked at her itas like electrical shock. >> really? >> i guess it's love. >> to charles true love is so powerful nothing can stop it. >> it's a big four letter word. >> nothing. which is why after she died in 2011, after 60 years of marriage, he decide a grave marker wasn't enough. that their loveedeserved more than a monument, what their love needed was a museum. and so, in a little outbuilding behind his house, charles evans >> this is our memorabilia area. >> inside he's got the shoe shine stand he was working at when he met her. he's got all the music they used to dance to. and got four walls packed solid with pictures, documenting every significant occasion. >> this is when we went out to lunch. >> and most every insignificant. need goes to say he doesn't get whole lot of visitors which is fine by charles. the st dance. >> you get the sense he almost enjoys his alone time more. on slow days he slow dances with louise. i guess i'm trying to relive our life, wouldn't you think? >> maybe. >> it's so hard t t-- it's not a suffering memory, it's a >> sometimes people try to tell charles to move on. but in his mind, why would you want to make a bunch of new memories when the old ones are still so good. >> yeah, she was lovely. that's a beauauful picturur ere, too. >> osgood: still to come, vocals by lady gaga. words and music by diane warren. love in ththmovies. you've finally earned enough reward miles on your airline credit card. now you just book a seat, right? 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>> i mean, i know i feel really and truly like i bared my soul. it wasn't untitii am most 27 years old that i didn't even acknowledge that this happened in my life. oh, yeah, that. >> both women say writing the song was a spiritual experience and it also led to a grammy and an oscar nomination. it is diane warren's eighth academy award nomination in a remarkable three decade long >> if i could turn back time. >> you may not know her name, you do know her songs. >> don't want to miss a thing >> diane warren has provided the words and melodies for some of the biggest voices in music. >>every timee someone sings my song i'm excited, it sounds lot better than me. because i suck. >> i was here, i lived, i loved >> i know what my job s. i know what my gig is. my jobob is to ite a great song. >> she is a song writing machine. warren has written more than 50 top 100 hits, 70 of them have cracked the top ten. faith hill, christina ago layer i can't, celine dion. >> there is country people, pop people, r&d people. >> this is the studio? >> yeah. >> when we visited her studio she told us she writes at least one new song every week. how many unrecorded hits do you think you have? >> lot. a lot. i really do. >> like hundreds, dozens? yeah. that are better than some of the ngs that i've had hits with. >> really? >> yeah. >> her songs tend to touch on some common themes. >> how do i live without you >> associated with all these love songs. but romance is not your particular strong suit. >> no, i sleep with a cat. i do. i love my cat. >> that's very direct. love like i want to sit and hear you breathe. i don't want somebody to hear me breathe, either, really? >> i could stay awake just to hear you breathing >> but it sounds good in the song. great opening live. like, i could stay awake just to hear you breathing. ew. >> her true love is her work. she's been writing songs since she was 14 while growing up in a suburb of los angeles. warren was always intrigued by the unfamiliar names on records and realized those were the songwriters. her dad bought her a guitar but her mom did not think song writing was a real career. that only fueled warren's ambition. >> i know a place where we can dance the whole night away underneath electric stars >> her first big break out hit came in 1985 whenn she helped motown group debarge find the >> feel the beat of the writ i am of the night dance until the morning light. >> for 30 years now, warren has written many of her songs inside this room at her office in los angeles. this is intense. >> i've been here a long time. >> this is like episode of songwriter hoarders. >> i love that. >> this is a time psule. that black shelf was knocked down during an earthquake in 1994. she says she doesn't move anything because of a combination of superstition and laziness. >> thank you for showing us this because i understand you don't let people come in here. >> no. you guys are like -- this doesn't happen. this is an exclusive. >> don't want to fall asleep, because i don't want to miss a >> you've been called the song whisperer. do you like that? >> i love that. because i think i am. you know, i think when i meet with an artist i kinda can feel it. i feel what that right song is. >> even when the artist doesn't. cher had no time for what would become one of her signature songs. >> cher hated it. hated the song. i got on my knees i will not let go. you will try this song. she goes, f you, diane. i can turn back time. >> you know when i believe in something, i can't stop, i don't know how to stop. >> warren doesn't seem to mind that lady gaga turned out to be just as tenacious. >> i'm always trying to make people uncomfortable and take them out of the comfort zone of what they create. and try to encourage them to change their process, to see doing something that you don't expect of yourself. and that's i think what made this song great in the end is there's -- there's like a chaos, but a resolve. and that's us. chaos. >> absolutely. and resolve. >> she's just insanely talented. >> i thought she was going to -- she's just insanely talented. >> that crazy tall sent what has made diane warren such a force in music without ever singing a note. >> but it's always going to be that one thing. >> what? 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the sex. >> oh, boy. >> it's a restaurant born out of a love story. len and dani met while working in the restaurant business then decided to open a dessert restaurant after dani made her husband an oreo cookie cake from scratch. what was his reaction when he tried it. >> his jaw dropped. he was silent, which is rare. he said the words, i'll never forget. if you dock thisiswhatelse can you do? >> this is delicious. >> turns out, a lot. restaurant's theme, these tempting trees come with names to arouse your interest. >> called the morning after? this is the come back truffle. >> when my red velvet seats cheese cake. >> i am a dark chocolate lover. >> this dark chocolate cake with chocolate filling infused with guinness stout proofed too irresistible not to try. >> oh, my. >> how long does it take to you make all of this? >> days. >> each valentine's day dani goes all out with a special dessert plate loaded with as many variations as you could ever want. appropriately named -- >> this is the nymphomaniac. >> it is. >> and it looks like a dessert lover's dream. >> thank you. >> it's a plate to share, we think. >> i have actually in years past had people finish it themselves. to each his own. >> and why stop with dessert? here, even@ the wine glasses are dipped in chocolate. >> i'm not even a wine drinker and this is delicious. >> it seems people just can't get enough. better than sex has become so popular, johnsons opened a second restaurant in orlando in december. just try to resist, we dare you. the. >> the restaurant is better than sex but it sound like people consider this very roman glike absolutely. that's what we want. that's what we're trying to portray. that's what dessert is, it gives you pleasure. and dessert is reason to celebrate. movies for lovers. you can't predict... the market. but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your investments through good times and bad. for r er 75 years, our clients have relied on us to bring our best thinking to their 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even more transcendental is 1908s "somewhere in time" a time travel fantasy where playwright christopher reeve recognizes his soul mate, an actress played by jane see mother, except she's long dead. his journey into the past his heart stirring and heartbreaking. it the has one of the most romantic first kisses ever.n and, okay, it's kinda drippy, just go with it. finally when people ask, what's your favorite movie ever? i say preston sturges' crew ball masterpiece "the lady leave" from 1941. >> see anything you like? >> barbara stanwyck is the steamboat conartist who snares henry fonda as a poor little rich egghead. she falls for him for real and loses him and got him back by -- it's complicated. and hilarious. juvenile infatuation is great, but there's more to love than what we see. >> you see, you don't know very much about girls. the best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are the bad ones aren't as bad. not nearly as bad. >> there you are, three movies about having to jump through a lot of hoops, temporal, logical to learn the meaning of love. they will lipper in your mind long after the roses have turned to dust. this thing is actually pretty fast. over. very funny. oh look, a farmer's market. we should get some flowers for the car. yeah! holly! ...through... your toughest stuck-on food. better than finish. cascade. my dad gave me those shares, you know. he ran that company. i get it. but you know i think you own too much. gotta manage your risk. an honest opinion >> osgood: we go now to john dickerson in greenville, south carolina. where he hosted also night's republican debate. for a look what's ahead on "face the nation." good morning, john. >> dickerson: good morning, charles. we're going to talk to donald trump and marco rubio about the brawling debate also night then on the democratic side, we'll talk to bernie sanders. >> osgood: we'll be watching. and next week here on "sunday morning." >> we see them relaxing and doing something that we enjoy doing. monkey business in japan. >> osgood: we leave you this valentine sunday at pinnacles national park in california. looking for love. captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> osgood: i'm charles osgood please join us again next sunday morning. until then i'll see you on the radio.ifafib-an irregular that may put you at five times greater risk of stroke they can pool together in the heart, forming a clot that can break free and travel upstream to the brain, where it can block blood flow and cause a stroke. but if you have afib that's not caused by a heart valve problem, pradaxa can help stop clots from forming. pradaxa was even proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke, and, in the rare event of an emergency, pradaxa is the only oral blood thinner other than warfarin with a specific reversal treatment to help 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