Be reporting our sunday morning cover story. This town outside chicago is a typical american suburb, and john k casino was a typical american kid. Baseball and hockey. Boy scouts. Until he and his childhood friends got hooked on heroin. I could tell by the position that he was in that he was already gone. Reporter you knew right away. I screamed dial 911. I think hes gone. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, heroin, the scourge of a bygone era is back. And coming to a neighborhood near you. Osgood a stars trek is the story of an actor who has traveled a very Long Distance by never forgetting where he came from. He tells that story this morning to our michelle miller. George takei is known throughout the galaxy as mr. Sulu, the helmsman of the starship price. But his journey began in a surprising place. Here in a small field in arkansas. This was a concentration camp. We were all concentrated. Reporter later on sunday morning, George Takeis long road to the stars. Sphairls from the stars above to the sea below with mo rocca on the hunt for sunken treasures. Reporter the beaches of cancun, mexico, are known for girls and guys going wild. But beneath the waters surface, its heart in the mild. I have a whole little team of helpers underwater that actually do the finishing work. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, art that lives underwater. Osgood Carol Burnett has been entertaining audiences for years with our brash style of comedy. But it hasnt been all laughs for her as she tells our lee cowan. Reporter its impossible to even say the name Carol Burnett without a smile on your face. I love you, i love you, i love you. Well, i married melody this afternoon. I hate you, i hate you, i hate you. Reporter but the comedian who made generations laugh also lived a life of grief. You never get over it. But ive learned to cope. Reporter because you have no other choice. You have no other choice. Reporter how Carol Burnett moved on, ahead on sunday morning. Reporter do you get nervous . Yep. Osgood Anthony Mason visits punk fashion legend Vivienne Westwood. David edelstein reviews a flip. Steve hartman takes us to an underground organ recital and more. But first are the headlines for this sunday morning the fourth of august 2013. American embassies and consulates are closed this morning in 22 nations. Mostly in the muslim world. Thats because of whats being called the most credible threat of an al qaeda terror attack in years. The u. S. Government hassles issued a Global Travel alert warning americans to be vigilant during the month of august, particularly in the middle east and north africa. Major League Baseball is refusing to negotiate with new york yankees star Alex Rodriguez about his impending penalty for using performanceenhancing drugs. Rodriguez has vowed to appeal any suspension. Its reported as many as 12 players could be suspended from league play by tomorrow evening. A rare outbreak of legionnaires disease at an ohio retirement community. Five people have been killed and 39 sickened since july. All of the victims were elderly. Legionnaires is a form of pneumonia contracted when people breathe in tinily droplets of contaminated water. In venice, california, last night, one person was kill and several people were injured when a car plowed into a crowd on the popular board walk. Witnesses say the driver did it on purpose. Police are questioning a potential suspect. President obama has something to celebrate this sunday morning. His 52nd birthday. Yesterday he left washington for camp david, the president ial retreat in maryland. Hell spend most of his day with his family there. Now todays weather forecast. Its thunderstorms for the Central Plains from nebraska to arkansas. And rain throughout the northeast and the deep south. The week ahead starts off mild and sunny for some parts of the nation, but it could end with a dose of rain. He was a really good friend. Next. All throughout high school we hung out. Heroins increasing toll on america. And later. . In three more years, star trek is going to be celebrating its golden anniversary. , [ female announcer ] new Nature Valley softbaked oatmeal squares. Hearty oatmeal now softly baked with a drizzle of cinnamon. Its a brandnew take on a morning classic. Softbaked oatmeal squares. New from Nature Valley. You have to let me know [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come together, the taste is irresistible. Sweet and salty nut bars by Nature Valley. Nature at its most delicious. Osgood no parents want to believe their child could be hooked on heroin. So its always a shocking discovery when they find out. It does happen every day and sometimes in places where you would least expect it. Our colleagues at 48 hours have spent the last few months investigating heroin addiction in a small town in illinois. Our cover story is reported now by maureen maher. Its thursday afternoon in the levy chicago suburb of naperville, illinois. I will be home later. Reporter and caroline is getting ready for a night out with the girls. She checks her email. And she lets the dog out. Its a typical scene. Renee, so nice to see you. Eporter only its not. Do you know gail. Reporter because this is one dinner, if given the choice, none of these women would care to attend. What are we supposed to do . We cant lock them in a clogs it. Reporter they are here because each of them has lost a child to heroin. I lost my son, john, to a heroin overdose on july 23, 2012. It devastated our family. I am here because no mother should ever have to bury her child. Reporter caroline doesnt enjoy telling her story. But shell tell it to anyone who will listen. To sound the alarm that what used to be considered an innercity scourge of a bygone era is back. Its probably worsous out in the suburbs now than it is in the inner city. Reporter and coming to a neighborhood near you. Its like a can of worms. The more you open it, the more you find out, the more youre seeing that its everywhere. I mean, i know more about heroin than i ever wanted to know in my whole life. Reporter or ever thought you would know. Its 2013 and we are sitting here talking about heroin and heroin addiction. I think most people thought heroin went away. That woulda misconception. Reporter kathy cane willis heads the Illinois Consortium on drug policy at Roosevelt University in chicago. A former heroin addict herself, she has been tracking the drugs troubling resurgence. During the past five years, seizures of heroins in the United States by the Drug Enforcement administration have gone up more than 50 while the number of heroin users in america has skyrocketed. Up a staggering 75 . For parents out there, here is the scary part. The most rapid growth is is occurring among those under age 21. Thats the fastestgrowing group. Reporter is it in isolated areas around the country or is this nationwide . Its nationwide. Its occurring primarily outside of the central city in the suburbs and in rural areas. Reporter middleclass america. Middleclass america, affluent america. Reporter and the reason canewillis says, has to do with another more highprofile epidemic that has been spreading among affluent teens. People start using prescription pain pills. When those are difficult to ge, they switch to heroin. Reporter Prescription Drug use among kids has gotten a lot of attention. For good reason. A recent survey shows 24 of High School Students thats more than five million kids have abused highly addictive medications like oxycontin. Thats a 33 increase in just five years. On the street those pills can be spencive. As much as 80 each. So increasingly kids are turning to a cheaper, more powerful alternative heroin. A bag can cost as little as 10. We see this intertwining epidemic growing. I think that we will see more heroin users. Reporter users like john. He told me he was doing heroin before four months before he knew it was heroin. Reporter like many parents, his mother caroline never saw it coming. We were the quintessential American Family baseball and hockey, boy scouts. I worked at the local school. So it allowed me to be at home with my kids. I had my summers off. So, i did everything right. I did everything i was supposed to. Reporter still everything went wrong. How long have you guys known each other . Kindergarten. Grade school. Reporter all three of you . Something like that, yeah. Reporter jake, peter, and james were all johns best friends. They grew up together. They were in boy scouts together. And barely in their teens, they started using drugs together. How old were you when you tried heroin for the first time . Freshman. Reporter freshman year in high school. Yeah. Reporter smoke it, snort it, shoot it. Snort it and shoot it. Reporter if youre wondering what demons would drive these middleclass kids to use such a dangerous addictive drug, the answer is chillingly mundane. Because it felt so good. Reporter but you didnt care. It felt too good to worry about the consequences. You dont see the consequences for a while. Like sometimes a year, like the point of no return almost. Reporter john reached that point long before the night of july 23, 2012. He had been arrested twice and been in and out of rehab. But he had been clean for a few weeks. And he was talking about going to college. He was home and safe. Or so his parents thought. I woke up in the morning. I opened up his door. And i found my son sitting up in his bed crosslegged but slumped completely over. I could tell the moment i opened up the door by the position that he was in that he was already gone. Reporter you knew right away. I knew right away. I threw him back. He was gray. I screamed for my husband who had just been getting ready to go to work. I screamed dial 911. I think hes gone. It takes a village to raise a child. And in todays society, raising a child is very challenging. Reporter ever since that day, caroline has been on a mission. Its not just a parent problem. It is a community problem. Reporter to save some other mothers son or daughter. First and foremost she wants a nationwide Good Samaritan law. This law will allow anybody who is with someone who is overdosing, they can dial 911 without fear of getting charges put against them. Reporter illinois is one of only 14 states with overdoserelated Good Samaritan laws on the books. And she wants people to know about a heroin antidote meloxon which can neutralize the drugs effects and save the life of someone who is overdosing. Distribution can cut the des in half. Reporter the researcher says this drug should be widely available over the counter. I want to make sure that no more people die. Our goal is to reduce overdose to 0 in ten years. That might not be an achievable goal but if we can reduce it by 50 , that would be a big deal. Reporter a year after her sons death, caroline stays in touch with his friends. All of them haunted by how heroin has shattered their once comfortable lives. All still struggling with an addiction they now know will last a lifetime. If you want all your dreams to go down the toilet, use heroin. Reporter they have learned some hard lessons, lessons they hope others their age will listen to. Lose friends, family, break hearts. If you want to keep friendships and make your family proud, and go somewhere in your life, dont use heroin or any drug. Its an untameable, unmanageable beast that is a shapeshifter. It hides in plain sight. It is insidious and clever and con iveing. I dont think anybody. I dont even think a user fully understands it. But i would like to still try to defeat it. What can we do about this . As a community, as a society, as a nation . What can we do . Hello, dolly osgood coming you, hello sach mow. My name is lee kaufman. Married to morty kaufman. [ lee ] now that im getting older some things are harder to do. This is not a safe thing to do. Be careful babe. There should be some way to make it easier [ doorbell rings ] lets open it up and see whats cookin. Oh i like that. Look at this its got a handle on it. I dont have to climb up. This yellow part up here really catches a lot of the dust. Did you notice how clean it looks . Morty are you listening . Morty . [ morty ] im listening i want you to know i get out a lot. Except when its too cold. Like the last three weekends. Asthma doesnt affect my job. You missed the meeting again last week it doesnt affect my family. Your coughing woke me up again. I wish youd take me to the park. I dont use my rescue inhaler a lot. Depends on what you mean by a lot. Coping with asthma isnt controlling it. 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Well, daddy, im just a little beat. Reporter armstrong spent that year in a tough part of new orleans called the battlefield. Part of that time in a delinquents home where he joined the band. He got his first big break from the citys top band leader and horn player joe king oliver. He did more for the Young Musicians in my area than anyone that i know of. He would be walking up the street and he might have. If he thought something was bugging us, he would look at it, daddy. And i would say, papa joe, what are you doing . He would stop and show it to you, no matter where he was going. Osgood armstrong traveled with oliver to chicago where he started to develop a style and a reputation all his own. Good morning. Hello, henry. Osgood he broke into movies with a role in the 1936 film pennies from heaven. Followed by many others. Including a duet with bing crosby in the 1956 film high society. Armstrong was touring the world earning him the nickname ambassador satch. He was breaking tra. Traditional barriers back home as well. Performs in 1956 with the new York Philharmonic under the direction of leonard bernstein. [ cheers and applause ] when we play the st. Louis blues, we are only doing a blownup imitation of what he does. And what he does is real and true and honest and simple and even noble. Hello, dolly osgood armstrong won over new audiences in 1964 with his recording of hello dolly which even knocked the beatles off the top of the charts. Youre looking swell, dolly osgood a song he reprised in the 1969 film opposite barbra streisand. Youre still crowing, youre still going strong osgood Louis Armstrong died in 1971 at his modest home in queens new york. Today that home is a museum and a National Historic landmark. Though his real landmark is all that music he left behind. The look was supposed to be of an urban gorilla. Osgood ahead punk designer Vivienne Westwood. Orange hair and all. Its frozen like youve never seen. 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Go long. These fashions are the creation of designer Vivienne Westwood. A leading figure in the Punk Movement of the 70s. Wild, wild westwood she had been called. But Anthony Mason found her today to be a pretty mild, mild westwood as youre about to see. Reporter punk was born to be incendiary. Designed to provoke. A rebel yell in sound and fashion. In new york this summer, the Costume Institute of the metropolitan museum is celebrating punks legacy. No other countercultural movement, the met claims, has had a greater influence on fashion. And there would have been no punk look without the lady with the orange hair. I remember designing some of these things. I remember i was very pleased with the graphics for that one after i worked it out. Reporter in london in the 1970s, Vivienne Westwood was the movements designer and seam stress. I used to make these things. He used to have a pile of muslim and cut them all up together and not waste a scrap of fabric. Reporter the guiding spirit of the punk image. Did you mean to be outrageous . No. No, i never ever tried to shock people. Reporter but she did. The best way to confront british society, westwood once said, was to be as obscene as possible. The time of punk rock, i was so outraged at the way the world is so corrupt and mismanaged and everything that the look was supposed to be of an urban gorilla. It was somehow a kind of crusade to challenge the status co. We took some of the trousers from the. Mike motor bike things. Then added some bondage straps to them and started to get the look of like an army thing. Reporter hers was a fashion rebellion made of ripped fabric, safety pins, and s and m gear. All familiar now but outrageous then. For many years the newspapers thought of me as unwearable. Nothing to do with fashion. English people are very snobby anyway. They dont like very artistic people to start with. They love me now. Reporter at 72 shes now a national treasure. Actress Gweneth Paltrow wears her clothes. So does meryl streep. And in the 2008 film sex in the city the character Cary Bradshaw picks a Vivienne Westwood bridal gown. But westwood, who started out a Primary School teacher never wanted to be a fashion designer. Actually i started fashion to help my boss. He just needed to somebody to hp him make these clothes and i always could make things. Reporter her boyfriend was manager of the pioneering punk rock band the sex pistols. Together in the 70s, mclaren and westwood opened amuse i can and fashion shop on londons kings road. Theres a replica of it at the punk exhibit at the metropolitan. Does this look pretty close to what it looked like . Yeah, not too bad. Reporter clothes for heroes is on the door. I think that theme runs through my clothes. Thats the mark of it somehow. People who want to stand tall. Reporter feels like yesterday in a way. I dont know. I dont think that. Doesnt everybody feel like this about their life. Thats somebody else. It happens to be me. You know, you just move on. Dont you . Turn that around. Let me have a look. Reporter 40 years later westwood still owns her own company. Just a minute. Lets just have a look at this. Reporter her fashion empire is headquarters in london. This is one of our couture dresses. Reporter where all her designs are brought to life. So this is kind of where you test everything. Yeah. And then when were satisfied and we really like something, then it is sent to italy or somebody comes here and has a look at it. Reporter in her stores, she has 126 now, the westwood style is still irreverent and uncompromising. Here we have an 18th century core set idea. But its all done in one goal. Reporter what made you want to bring the core setback . Well, this is fashion, isnt it . A lot of the time its the reaction against what is. Where is the space that we havent been for a long time . Reporter westwood herself is still reacting against what is. Youve said to people, stop buying clothes. Yes. Reporter not a lot of fashion designers would be saying that. I just said recently, i think the queen should wear her clothes more. She doesnt need a new outfit for every occasion. It would be great to see her in the same thing all week. You know . Reporter i love that idea. You were antiroyal once. Yes. I was definitely. I thought the world was so dreadful, you know, dont think its the fault of the queen. At one time i thought of her as the symbol of all our hypocrisy. I think the queen is wonderful. A wonderful asset. Its like social cement. Reporter the queen has returned the compliment. You were made a dame in 2006. Yes. Reporter how did you feel about that . I cant believe it. Of course, you think well youve got to accept it. Otherwise youre like some sort of silly victim. Why do you not want to accept it. Reporter it almost seems a contradiction with your background in punk and becoming a dame. Its great to be honored, to be a dame. I think that i deserve to be a dame more than Margaret Thatcher did. I think that i did more good in the world than she did, for example. Reporter and thats not the former british prime minister. Thats westwood dressed up as her for a 1989 april fools cover of a british magazine. Oh, that was brilliant. That was really really great. I was so proud of my acting ability. Reporter the former teacher has schooled us to expect the unexpected. The once antiroyal has become Britains Queen of cuttingedge couture. Do you think of yourself as a rebel . To tell you the honest truth, all i really am trying to do is to make the world a better place. Reporter we should read more and go to Art Galleries dame Vivienne Westwood says. For her, fashion is still about the message. However hard it may be for some of us to hear. I never watch television. Reporter i wont take that personally. No, you should stopwatching it. Everybody should. Osgood a sub terrainian organ concert is just ahead. And later Carol Burnett. We want it to feel dangerous, spontaneous. Osgood just for laughs. ,,, a most unusually quipped basement in the american heartland is striking a cord with tourists by the bus load. Steve hartman shows us why. Reporter from the outside, this threebedroom ranch in racine, wisconsin, looks like any other house. On the inside, it looks like any other house. But if you make your way down these stairs, youll find a cellar unlike any other cellar. And its down here where 87yearold retired insurance salesman fred hermes works on his hobby in front of a live audience. It makes me happy the enjoyment they get out of it. Reporter yes, here in his basement where most of us keep our water heaters and paint cans, fred has a giant wurlitzer and balcony seating. Fred built this theater in the ground in 1959. It wasnt so much that he wanted a theater as he needed a place to keep his organ and the 3,000 pipes that came with it. He res rescued the organ from the old michigan theater in detroit. The biggest organ ever made had five keyboards. Reporter what year. March 1926 the same month i was born. Reporter do you feel a kin dread spirit with that organ. I would say i think so. Reporter that explains his wurlitzer but what about the rest of the place . Then they started tearing down all these beautiful movie theaters around the country. I thought why not pick up some of these junk and make it look like a movie palace. Reporter which leads me to this question. Why would anybody want that . Because theyre crazy. Reporter a few years ago word got out that fred had this theater and the tour buses have been stopping by ever since. Right down between those traffic cones and be careful. Reporter which is fine by fred. In fact, he says he has a responsibility to share this place. This is beautiful. Reporter heres the way i look at life. This is a gift that god gave me. And i think i owe something. That is why i have people coming around here. They say god works in mysterious ways. If this is one of those ways, lord knows what hes trying to tell us. Maybe follow your dreams or share your passion. Or maybe were just supposed to appreciate the quirks of this great country. Like freds home theater, sweet home theater. applause osgood coming up. In our case there was no due process in our case there was no due process osgood catching up with star treks george takei. T, sno late. Really . Yep so is your husband off the hook . No. He went out for milk last week and came back with a puppy. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. At discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card with late payment forgiveness. Thto fight chronic. Osteoarthritis pain. To fight chronic low back pain. To take action. To take the next step. Today, you will know you did something for your pain. 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And all these years later a stars trek goes on right here on planet earth. Michelle miller brings us up to date. Audiences have gotten used to george takei taking them to surprising places. Something there on the screen. Reporter . Mr. Sulu the senior helmsman aboard the u. S. S. Starship enter prize. Warp factor three mr. Sulu reporter with its unforgettable fiveyear mission. To boldly go where no man has gone before. Its been amazing. In three more years, star trek is going to be celebrating its golden anniversary. Reporter the ongoing popularity of that original tv series and subsequent feature films have made george takei a worldwide star. I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality, but i have trekked all over this planet australia, asia, latin america, europe reporter but of all the exotic places hes been, whether on this planet or beyond, george takei is ever mindful of this place. A 500acre plot of land in Southeast Arkansas where his journey began. This was the south end of the camp, and that was the north end. Reporter rohwer, arkansas, now just a fall owefield looked a lot difference from the takei family arrived by train in 1942. George wag just five years old. This was a concentration camp. We were all concentrated, densely concentrated. We happened to look like the people that bombed pearl harbor. And we were put in prison camps simply because of our race. Reporter his father, a successful los angeles dry cleaner, and mother raising george and his siblings, were among the more than 110,000 japanneseamericans sent to Relocation Centers like these. All in the defense of socalled National Security during world war ii. Camp ten camps in all scattered throughout the country. We were ordered out of our home at gun point. My mother was the last to come out. She had tears rolling down her cheek. It was a memory that i can never erase. To see your mother crying. As we were being ordered out of our home reporter their new home at rohwer was a small single room in a tarpaper barrack. I went to school and began every School Day Morning with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I could see the bashed wire fence and the sentry tower as i revieted the words with liberty and justice for all. Reporter his family would spend eight monthses at rohwer and another three years interned at a maximum security camp in california. In 1946 his family was released, but george couldnt escape the racism of the day. I started school in los angeles. And the teacher continually called me the little jap boy which stung. It hurt. Reporter it was a different teacher, ms. Lewis, who gave him a gift that set him on his way. Thanksgiving was coming. She organized a thanksgiving play. She cast me as the indian chief to welcome the pilgrims. I still remember the line i had reporter what was it . Yo speaking indian language reporter thats a lot to remember. Though just a grade school play, takei was hooked. He studied acting at ucla and landed small roles in television and films but parts for japanneseamerican actors were limited. You have trouble in seattle. What do you ask . Iteman never work in alaska for chinese wages if not for big trouble reporter his big break came in 1965 when his agent got him an audition in front of gene rodenberry who was about to launch the scifi series star trek. Well, that was a gamechanger. It was. It was. It broke the stereotypes. No animals, no people, no words. Just what the doctor ordered. Right, doctor . I mean i was a regular, visible, talking, walking, fencing. You either eat this raw or bloody or with my blood on your soul reporter oh, you were handsome. Can i just say you were hot. And i felt hot. laughing . Take over, mr. Sulu. Ill be in the transporter room. Reporter remarkably, star trek lasted only three seasons. With his new found celebrity takei tried his hand at politics. He ran for the Los Angeles City council and lost, fought for japanneseamerican reparations and won. Putting his very public face on causes that were close to his heart, all except one. It must have been hard to be in the closet. It was. It was. Because i had resigned myself, accepted the fact that i would live a part of my life closeted reporter that all changed when a california Marriage Equality bill was vetoed in 2005. Angered by that decision, takei came out publicl eventually marrying his longtime partner brad altman in 2008. I thought my career might be over. But quite the reverse of that. Im a little confused here. Oh, my. Can i help . Not that kind of confused. Reporter and popping up all over the internet takei has found a new generation of fans, millions of them, on facebook, twitter, and youtube tube. I have to say you kind of go off the rails. How . Well, i saw your dance moves. Im sexy and i know it its embarrasses brad to no end. I was embarrassed for him, george. Oh, my. Reporter his cheerful online persona has helped to raise awareness about his next very personal project. Bringing amuseical inspired by his early life in the internment camp to broadway. Its called allegiance. Just put up and shut up because youre in paradise its made for america. Its a story about the glory of our democracy but also its fallibility. Its amuseical that teaches us that lesson. Reporter a lesson he learned in these fields in southern arkansas and kept with him his entire life. And though he made his name in the scifi reaches of outer space. Our barrack was right here. Block 6 reporter . At age 76, george takei hopes that his real legacy will be closer to home. Theres nothing i recognize here. Its totally changed. But it has defined who i am. Osgood ahead, a final salute ,,,,,,,, osgood what happened this week, the loss of one toughtalking actress. Eileen brennan died last sunday of cancer at her home in burbank, california. She had started her career on broadway and had a brief run on tvs laughin. Before her first significant film role as a longsuffering waitress in the last picture show. Honey, i will probably be making cheese burgers for your grand kids reporter other film roles quickly followed including one in the sting in 1973. Which way are the rooms reporter in which she played a madam with no time for a snooping detective. What are you going to . Call the cops. I dont have to. Youll be busting in on the chief of police just up the hall. I hate to interrupt you osgood and in what was probably her most beloved role she played army captain doreen lewis opposite goldie hawn in the 1980 film private benjamin. Whats your name, princess . Judy. Reporter her performance as a no nonsense officer won her an oscar for best supporting actress. She went on to win an emmy when she repeated the very same role the next year in the cbs tv series based on the show. Critically injured when a car struck her in 1983, Eileen Brennan struggled for years with an addiction to pain medication. She made occasional guest appearances on television. Its your old teacher reporter said goldie hawn, i will miss my old friend. Eileen brennan was 80. Still to come, taking the plunge. For arts sake. ,,,, [ male announcer ] on vacation, you want more of the things you love. Hello, bacon. Get more with breakfast and a tworoom suite for rates as low as 115 per night at an embassy suites. Book now at embassysuites. Com getaway. Osgood there are sunken treasures to dazzle the eye if you follow mo rocca. If you dont want to get wet, stand back. Reporter cancun. Surf, sand, bikinis, brewskis. Girls and guys gone wild. Sculpture. Wait a minute. Sculpture . So where are we now . Near the Museum Reporter yes, cancun has an art scene. Its not so much underground as it is, i discovered, underwater. In spanish it stands for museum of underwater art. Its an eerie world of sculptures and shaped by the sea life around it. I can go one day. It will be a huge school of fish there. Another day ill go and lobsters are crawling across the sculptures. It is really out there in the elements and it is really changing dramatically. Jasons tailor is the british sculptor who has created these ghostly figures that live 25 feet beneath the surface. We tend to be oblivious to this underwater world because its out of our sight most of the time. What an incredible place it is. Reporter the project started when two hurricanes devastatedded the areas coral reeves. Its like explosions reporter as director of cancuns national park, the mission is is to protect the reef. Almost half Million People. These are air reporter a half Million People come just to. To this small spot. Reporter just touching the reeves living, breathing organisms inflicts harm. After a hurricane keeping tourists at a distance is crucial to letting the reeves grow back. Some of the areas requiredded some closing reporter closing off the reeves permanently would devastate the business of roberto diaz who runs aqua world, cancuns largest water tour operator. When he heard about a proposal to shut off access he was not amused. If you shut down reporter what happened next was an alltoo rare collaboration between art, business and government. I got a call from the marine park director Jaime Gonzales. I said what about if we have an underwater museum. I want to come over and check it out. He said he had this 200sculpture project that would be very interesting for cancun. Taylors vision was to draw park visitors away from the reeves by having them mingle with his underwater crowd. Hundreds of local people posed for him. Look at that face. Hes brilliant. Hes the first person i met when i came here. His name was joaquin. He had a great face that came out so well. The process is time consuming and arduous for the artist and the model. They have come in. We have to slick all the hair back and put vaseline on it and stop it from sticking to the mold. Taylors models have come from all walks of life. Theres this nun. She was my spanish teacher when i first arrived. Shes 85 years old, one of the oldest people ive ever carved reporter and this victorias secret model. Good bone structure. Reporter great bone structure. Good collar bones. And this young boy. He stood in this position for an hour. All he did was blinked. Didnt move. He didnt breathe. He was just amazing. Reporter the sculptures are made of an ultrahard concrete that is 20 times stronger than the normal stuff. Its really heavy. Really heavy eporter that is really heavy. I know. Reporter after theyre installed on the sea floor, the ocean takes over. Bringing life to the art. Literally. I have a whole little team of helpers underwater that actually do the finishing work reporter they are more than just statues of local people. Over our underwater lunch taylor showed me sculptures set in water nine feet deep accessible to snorkelers. This is one way of changing peoples attitudes towards the ocean and towards the reeves reporter has this sculptural museum met your expectations . Yes, it was increased a lot of our business especially the diving for beginners. Reporter for Jaime Gonzales success is measured in whats not happening. Divers are spending 40 of their time looking at the sculptures. Measurably less time in the natural reef. In that sense this is success. So heres to the new cancun where sea life and sculpture are having their own party. Call it art gone wild. Heres where we were, studio 33 osgood next tv comedy legend Carol Burnett. A lot of laughs. Carol burnett. A lot of laughs. Oh, yeah, lots. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa Auto Insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. 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Reporter there was a time when staying home on saturday night wasnt an indictment of your social life. Because america had a standing date with Carol Burnett. applause for more than a decade the Carol Burnett show was on in almost every household with a tv. It is still regarded as one of the most beloved variety shows ever. If only i could show it to you. You show me yours and ill show you mine. Reporter remarkable given when she first auditioned to be on television, no one, not even Carol Burnett herself,. Oh, he makes me laugh sometimes reporter . Believed shes ever really be a good fit. The guy who was casting said youre too big for television. Reporter youre too big. Youre too loud. Reporter at 80 years old, she hasnt lost any of that largerthanlife charm. Are you still working . Reporter who else could interrupt a taping of the bold and the beautiful . Oh, for gds sake. Are you . What are you doing here . You must be working. Hello, baby reporter can still get such a warm welcome. Its Carol Burnett. Welcome back. Thank you. I used to bet the crew that i could change faster than they could move a sofa. Reporter its been more than 30 years since her show went off the air here at tv city in hollywood. Heres where we were, studio 33. This was our big stage reporter her old home is now the home of the price the right. The ghosts of christmas past. This is the best studio in town. As far as doing sketches or music. Youre right there with the audience. Turn up the lights. Reporter she was especially close to her audience. Whats your favorite sport . My favorite sport is paul newman reporter her q a sessions she seemed less like a star and more like a friend. Always aiming to please. Oh, i needed a pair. Reporter but out of all the seats in the house, this row meant the most. They usually sit in these seats here reporter thats where her three young daughters, jody, erin and carrie all sat during rehearsals. Oh, they recovered reporter you would hope so, right. She laughs now but those seats werent always filled with smiles. Carrie, her oldest descended into a world of drug addiction, what People Magazine at the time called Carol Burnetts nightmare. I didnt give up on her. At times we werent speaking. At one point i said i have to love her enough to let her hate me reporter but her daughter got clean and didnt hate her mother. She actually followed in her footsteps. She became a writer and an actress herself. Its the luck of the draw. Reporter even appearing opposite her mother. Maybe youre right. I know im right. Ive been there reporter but not for long. She was on her way, so to speak, when she got sick. Reporter in 2001carrie learned she had cancer. What happened next is a subject of burnetts recent book carrie and me. We all went through disbelief, shock and angry. Then you get scared. They were hoping that they might save one lung. But then it went up to her brain. Reporter carrie died at just 38 years old. You never get over it. But ive learned to cope. Reporter because you have no other choice. You have no other choice. Reporter it was hardly her first bout with addiction and loss. Carol burnett grew up in the midst of all of it. Always. Making the best of it. Daddy was like a drunk jimmy stewart. Reporter a kinder, gentler drunk. He was sweet but unfortunately he couldnt hold a job. He had the disease. Then mama she started to drink in her 30s. Then she became an alcoholic also. So they both died in their 40s reporter she was raised by her grandmother, first in texas where burnett was born. Then in hollywood where they shared a oneroom apartment. They lived on government assistance. Their own escape was the movies. Nanny would save up her pennies. At times i think sometimes i would see maybe eight movies a week. Reporter she never thought she would be a star herself. She actually wanted to be a writer. So she enrolled at ucla and found herself playing a hill billy in the theater arts program. On her first night on stage, everything changed. All i said was, im back. And everybody laughed. And i thought, whoa, this is. I like this feeling. I really like this feeling. Reporter that feeling took her to broadway. Ive always been shy. I confess that im shy reporter there she landed the starring role in once upon a mattress. Once i got out there and started to belt out the first number, i felt again like im back. Carol burnett. [ cheers and applause ] reporter the small screen soon took notice. Before long, the woman once thought to be too big to be on tv. Look out, here i come reporter . Was, in fact, becoming bigger than life. tarzan call reporter but when she wanted to lead her own variety show she hit a feud with one execute telling her. Comedy is a landscape. Its a mans world reporter were you offended by that. No, i wasnt. But i am now. But that was then. Now do you have any proof that youre my. mumbling that youre my. Do you have any proof. Reporter she was determined to give the Carol Burnett show a live feed. Even though it was taped. We wanted it to feel dangerous, spontaneous reporter the result was genius. Some of the funniest moments were the unscripted moments. Especially between Harvey Korman and tim conway. Well be right with you. Were never proud of cracking up. Never did we mean to. Harvey was furious at himself because he was such a fine actor. All tim would have to do would do that at him and hed be gone. Reporter but few sketches stick to the funny bone quite like their parody of gone with the wind. First theres the dress. And then, theres the line. Thank you. I saw it in a window and i just couldnt resist it reporter what did you think when you first saw that . I fell on the floor. Its in the smithsonian now reporter she, however, is no museum piece. Her comedic timing hasnt lost a beat s. Lovely meeting you. Can you tell me how to do this . I would cook those. Okay. Thanks, carol. Im so glad we had this time together reporter those signature Carol Burnett goodbyes always did have a way of lingering. They still do. To this day. We just get started and before you know it, comes a time we have to say so long. Good night. Thank you. Oh, my gosh. The laughs we had. Osgood just ahead, the end of the world. David edelstein reviews the movie. [laughing] why . Please . female announcer the Kitchen Table is where news is shared, plans are made and decisions are decided. When it comes time to discuss insurance, wed like to be there for you. [laughing] announcer physicians mutual. Insurance for all of us. A quarter million tweeters musicare tweeting. Eamed. And 900 Million Dollars are changing hands online. Thats why the internet needs a new kind of server. One thats 80 smaller. Uses 89 less energy. And costs 77 less. Its called hp moonshot. And its giving the internet the room it needs to grow. This. Is going to be big. Its time to build a better enterprise. Together. [ telephone rings ] hows the camping trip . Well, the kids had fun, but i think i slept on a rock. The best part of wakin up what are you doing . Having coffee. Ohh. Is folgers in your cup so, if youre sleeping in your contact lenses, what you wear to bed is your business. Having coffee. Ohh. Ask about the air optix® contacts so breathable theyre approved for up to 30 nights of continuous wear. Serious eye problems may occur. Ask your doctor and visit airoptix. Com for Safety Information and a free onemonth trial. Osgood there seems to be no end to those end of civilization movies. David edelstein views the latest one. Much of elysium is set in 2154 on a ruined earth. Isnt it weird how in every other wouldbe blockbuster this year the planet is dead or being demolished . Oblivion, after earth, pacific rim, man of steel. Why are we so obsessed with apocalypse . Youd think there was catastrophic Climate Change or something. But seriously, its part realistic anxiety, part hollywood economics. Pretty easy to destroy a world that only exists inside a computer. Plus most studio profits now come from overseas. In places like china, soon to be the number one market, they love watching stuff go boom. Elysium is more than stuff going boom. Not that much more. But it does begin with a good, angry satirical premise earth has been polluted to the point where the rich have left for elysium, a sort of super space station hovering in orbit, a paradise of manicuredded lawns, pools, robot servants, machines that cure cancer in 15 seconds. On earth, the pleebs in their dirty shanty towns look at elysium like the brass ring on an old merrygoround. When can i go . Reporter matt damon dreams of seizing that ring, but the richees in the sky dont take kindly to illegal immigrants. Witness jody foster as the ruthless defense secretary. What do you want us to do now . Activate krueger reporter it must be hard for liberal humanists like foster to impersonate consciousless zdeno phobic fascists. Shoot them down reporter ma s why her performance is so godawful. The writer director is 33yearold South AfricanNeal Blum Len camp who made the oscarnominated district 9 where apartheid was reimagined with giant shrimp from outer space. In elysium he shoots everything with a handheld camera, super close, so when damon is converted to a semicyborg and gets pummeled by fists and lethal objects we get pummeled by light annoys and rock em sock em editing except the parts in speaking slowly slow motion. The december integrations are excellent. But the movie uses twisty stylish stateoftheart techniques to arrive at totally predictable melodramatic ends from the heros crisis of conscience to its faceoff with a slobbering psycho to his messiahic finale. Elysium delivers on its own dumb terms but i like the satire best. Who cant identify with damon pleading his case to a robot bureaucrat with a low threshold for insulin . Would you like to talk to a human . No. I am okay. Thank you. Are you being sarcastic and or abusive . Negative. Reporter i only wish the plot didnt feel machinetooled as if dictated by a robot who had been programmed by studio executives who dreamed of being rich and of living, of course, in places like elysium. Ill just press this, and youll save on both. Ding ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllets get ready to bundlllllle. [ holding final syllable ] oh, yeah, sorry lets get ready to bundle and save. Now, thats progressive. Oh, i think i broke my spleen Home Insurance provided and serviced by third party insurers. Pure chocolate goodness that brings people together. When the chocolate is hersheys life is delicious. Osgood heres a look at the week ahead on our sunday morning calendar. On monday the mayor of san diego begins two weeks of behavior counseling following numerous charges of sexual harassment. On tuesday microsoft cofounder paul allen and his band the underthinkers release their debut album. Its called everywhere at once. Wednesday marks the end of ramadan, the monthlong period of fasting and prayer for muslims. On thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued its revised forecast for the 201 hurricane season. On friday, the edinboro International Festival opens in scotland with more than 3,000 artists and performers taking part. And saturday sees an auction of music and Entertainment Memorabilia in dallas. It will include the first g. I. Joe prototype. An opening bid of 125,000. Its also yet another week for enjoying the pleasures of summer and appreciating our blessings. Thats what our contributor ben stein has been doing. My wife and i spend most of the summer in a beautiful, small north idaho town called sand point on an immense lake with a lovey beach and a busy line of a major railroad. Several days ago i rode my bike by the beach. I saw many young people lying in the sun, swimming in the cold water looking thin and care free. Youth, i said to myself. Thats real wealth. I rode my bike under a rail bridge just as one of the trains passed by pulled by three powerful locomotives. They made the ground shake. The railway is majority owned by one man, warren buffet, who happens to be a good friend. To think that one man owns those mighty locomotives and much much else besides just made my head spin. Stupendous money i thought. Thats real wealth. Later that evening i took a small party of friends celebrating an upcoming wedding to dinner at a waterfront restaurant. The bride to be fathers was a close friend of mine who died in 1996 when she was a teenager. She was sthil grieving painfully for him. To have a father, i thought. Thats wealth. She was obviously madly in love with her financee. To be young and in love, i thought, thats also real wealth. At the dinner table, a young asian woman told of how her father had barely escaped murder by the rouge in the cambodian genocide. Now he lives quietly golfing and gardening in oregon. To be alive, to survive a genocide, to start a new family and go on. Thats wealth. As for me, im not hiding from the khmer rouge. Im a senior citizen, as we laughing say, and can still ride a bike on a Beautiful Day along a beach side path. I have by far the best life in the world. There are many kinds of wealth, and im living a dream up here in sand point. If you look for the wealth in your life, i suspect youll find plenty of it in your own backyard, toto. Osgood commentary from ben stein. We want to take a moment now to talk about a passing in our extended family. Longtime nbc news correspondent john palmer died yesterday at the age of 77. In a career that spans four decades john covered five president s and traveled the world. A gentleman and our worthy competitor. John palmer is survived by his wife and family including daughter molly who is married to our sunday morning colleague and friend lee cowan. Our condolences to them all. Now to Bob Scheiffer in washington for a look at whats ahead on face the nation. Good morning, bob. Good morning, charles. John palmer was a longtime friend of mine, a real good guy and a fine reporter. This morning, were all about the worldwide threat that the government is taking very seriously by al qaeda. And well have all of the latest on that. Osgood Bob Scheiffer in washington, thank you. We will be watching. Next week here on sunday morning. The man who is expressing his opinion under the first amendment. Osgood the versatile Brian Cranston of tvs breaking bad. In the nation, sometimes bad things happen. 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