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“Mary Poppins” was Julie Andrews’ first film. Her second film was “The Sound of Music.” If she had never made another movie, she might still be one of Hollywood’s most endearing and beloved stars … and generation after generation would still be singing along. Though that was just the beginning of a career literally in
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Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, mother-daughter writing team – CBS News Watch CBS News Singer and actress Julie Andrews began a new career when she teamed with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton to write a hugely successful series of children’s books. Their 35th, “Waiting in the Wings,” about a troupe of theatrical ducks, is based
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Passage: In memoriam – CBS News Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who recently left us, including singer-songwriter and guitarist Dickey Betts, of The Allman Brothers. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
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In 1966, when the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical “Cabaret” first appeared on Broadway, audiences were dazzled, and disconcerted, by the show’s depiction of life in early 1930s Berlin. Joel Grey played the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club; he would reprise the role in the Oscar-winning 1972 film version, welcoming patrons to “leave your troubles
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Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin on the return of “Cabaret” to Broadway – CBS News Watch CBS News “Sunday Morning” looks at the enduring popularity of the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical “Cabaret,” from its debut in 1966 and the Oscar-winning Bob Fosse film, to the latest revival on Broadway, in a production titled “Cabaret at the
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Photographer James Balog on documenting climate change: “Adventure with a purpose” – CBS News Watch CBS News Photographer James Balog has become one of the foremost chroniclers of human-caused climate change, as his cameras have tracked the dramatic effects – vanishing ice, rising seas, fires, and the toll climate change is taking on all living
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Interstate 90 is the longest interstate highway in the United States. Spanning more than 3,000 miles, it connects Seattle in the west to Boston in the east. But it also serves as a massive concrete divide. For the animals who live to the north and south of the interstate, this road has absolutely wrecked their
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How wildlife crossings protect both animals and people – CBS News Watch CBS News To protect the movement of wildlife impeded by busy roadways, a series of manmade overpasses and underpasses throughout the United States helps animals big and small safely get across the street, preventing collisions and saving lives. About 1,500 of these structures
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Record heat, hurricanes, wildfires all have been making news in recent years. And while not everyone agrees events like these are the direct result of climate change, they do connect to peoples’ opinions about it: a big majority of Americans feel the U.S. needs to address climate change, with those who report experiencing extreme weather
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President Biden on Saturday signed legislation reauthorizing a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. Barely missing its midnight deadline, the Senate had approved the bill by a 60-34 vote hours earlier with bipartisan
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