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*Newtown father Jimmy Greene and his wife joined fellow parents and spouses of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims for an emotional “60 Minutes” segment on the eve of their visit to Congress to lobby for gun violence prevention measures. Seven of the families, all members of the group Sandy Hook Promise, sat down on [...]
*ABC made it official in an announcement this morning – former CBS News reporter and “60 Minutes” correspondent Byron Pitts has joined ABC News as an anchor and chief national correspondent based in New York. He’ll also play a significant role on ABC’s Friday newsmagazine “20/20,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pitts will appear across [...]
*ABC News is reportedly close to signing “60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts, according to Politico.com. “Pitts will serve as both chief national correspondent and anchor at ABC News, and will appear across the network’s programming. ABC News President Ben Sherwood is expected to announce the news next week,” Dylan Byers of Politico reported. “Pitts is [...]
*Lil Wayne admits he’s no trendsetter since fans, foe, and critics have chattered about his white styrofoam cup appearance on “60 Minutes” a while ago. The rapper unashamedly showed off his disposable cup on national television, causing the “double cup” trend and leaving people wondering what was in his cup. We’ll probably never know what [...]
*President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will take on the ladies of “The View” as a team. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The show announced that the couple will make their first joint appearance on the daytime program next week. They’ll tape an episode Monday to air Tuesday. Obama’s appearance in July 2010 [...]
*In an interview with “60 Minutes” to air this Sunday, President Obama suggested that Mitt Romney acted too quickly in responding to the U.S. embassy in Cairo’s statement condemning an anti-Islam video, reports Politico. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] “There’s a broader lesson to be learned here. Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to [...]
*In a “60 Minutes” preview aired Friday on “CBS This Morning,” soulful pop star Adele belts a portion of her hit song, “Rolling in the Deep,” marking the first time she’s sung in public since undergoing throat surgery in early November. [Scroll down to watch.] In the “60 Minutes” piece airing Sunday, she also talks [...]
*Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for the TV news magazine “60 Minutes,” died Friday night, CBS said. He was 92. Just a month ago, Rooney delivered his last regular essay on the CBS news magazine. CBS said he died Friday night in [...]
*A Harlem choir director recently profiled on “60 Minutes” will see her story come to the big screen. Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming reports that Universal Pictures and Illuminaton Entertainment have acquired the rights package to make a film based on the “60 Minutes” segment profiling Vy Higginsen, an accomplished gospel singer who started a program for [...]
*In a taped interview (May 4, 2011) with CBS’ long running “60 Minutes” program, to air on Sunday (May 8, 20011), President Obama said that releasing photos of Osama bin Laden may incite additional violence. “That’s not who we are,” he explained. White House Releases Revealing bin Laden Videos *On Saturday, five never-before-seen home videos [...]
*“60 Minutes” has scored the first interview with President Barack Obama since the killing of Osama bin Laden. The interview, to be conducted by Steve Kroft in the White House Wednesday, will be broadcast on the long-running CBS news magazine on Sunday, May 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT). The president announced late last Sunday that the [...]
*President Barack Obama will appear on “60 Minutes” this Sunday to discuss the “shellacking” of Democrats in the midterm elections. Speaking to CBS’ Steve Kroft, Obama says his failure to promote his administration’s accomplishments may have led to the outcome on Tuesday – with Republicans taking over the House and gaining six seats in the [...]
*Sarah Palin and her supporters may think she’s hot stuff, but reality says different. According to a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, 59 percent of Americans think Sarah Palin is not fit to be president of the United States Meanwhile, 26 percent say they think she would be an effective commander-in-chief. The poll also shows [...]
*Byron Pitts was born on October 21, 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland where he was raised by a single-mom who saved to send him to Catholic school on a modest seamstress’ salary, despite the fact that they were churchgoing Baptists. Although he would eventually embark on an enviable career on TV as a well-respected news journalist, [...]
*Yesterday, we brought to your attention, via our eurthisNthat.com blog, the new war of words between Spike Lee and Tyler Perry who both are considered successful hyphenates: actor/director/producer, with Tyler arguably the “more” successful. An-t-way, as noted, in an interview on “60 Minutes,” Perry got a chance to defend himself against comments made last spring [...]
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