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♪ ♪ good morning. i'm jane pauley and this is "sunday morning." we'll begin this morning with an interview with president joe biden. his first since announcing he wouldn't seek another term in office. a momentous decision, one that may well have changed the course of this election and history. president biden will talk about why he bowed out of the race, the stakes this election poses for our democracy, and more. with robert costa. >> thank you. >> reporter: while joe biden is no longer atop the democratic

t ticket, he says he chose do leave the race for the same reason he sought the presidency four years ago. >> i ran the first time i thought of myself as a transfer of power transition president. i can't say how old i am. it's hard to get it out of my mouth. it's a great honor being president. i have an obligation to do the most important thing, and that is we news, we must, we must defeat trump. >> reporter: coming up on "sunday morning," president joe biden reflects on the stakes in this election and his place in history. now on broadway, a storied musical that helped launch the career of an american comedy legend. but you might call tracy smith's report a genuine twofer. ♪ >> reporter: 65 years ago, a broadway show helped make carol burnett a household name. >> did "once upon a mattress"

put you on the map? >> yes. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and now another legend is taking a turn. >> i knew it the minute they said it. what took them so long? >> reporter: the tale of one little show and two towering talents ahead . this morning a summer song from one of the new kings of country. anthony mason sits down with post malone. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: with more than 40 billion streams, post malone is one of the most popular musicians in the world. what does songwriting give you? >> you are making a baby with sound waves. which is neat, i think. >> reporter: now the pop star is putting out a country album with some of the biggest names in nashville. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: post malone later on "sunday morning."

horseshoe crabs aren't crabs and have very little to do with horses. it turns out they helped save countless lives. conor knighton has the story of of a mysterious creature that's actually older than dinosaurs. and that's old. michelle archer catches up with actor zoe kravitz who has news, public and private. kelefa sanneh marks the centennial of the birth of author james baldwin with an appreciation of his prolific prose. plus, a good yarn from serena altschul. humor from jim gaffigan and more this sunday morning for the 11th of august, 2024. we will be back after this. ♪ ♪

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>> reporter: let's begin with your decision. you are at your home, rehoboth beach, delaware, late july with your family and you make this historic decision. tell me the story. >> look, polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, would have been down to the wire. but what happened was a number of my democratic colleagues in the house and senate thought that i was going to hurt them in the races. and i was concerned if i stayed in the race, that would be the topic. why did nancy pelosi say, why did so -- and i thought it would be a real distraction, number one. number two, when i ran the first time i thought of myself as being a transition president. i can't even say how old i am. it's hard for me to get out of my mouth. and but things got moving so quickly, it didn't happen.

and the combination was that i thought it was a critical issue for me still, it's not a joke, maintaining this democracy. but i thought it was important because although i -- it's a great honor being president, i think i have an object gigs to the country to do the most important thing, and that is we must, we must, we must defeat trump. >> reporter: i saw those images of your family in the oval office sitting just over to your left and you addressed the nation. they came up to you after the speech. what did you say to them? >> it's what they said to me. they said, my grandchildren call me pop. my children call me dad. and they said they were proud. and it mattered to me a lot. >> reporter: when i saw you with your family in the oval, i wondered, is he thinking of beau, too?

>> look, i can honestly say that i think of him all the time. whenever i have a decision that's really hard to make, i ask myself, that would beau do? he should be sitting here being interviewed. not me. he was really a fine man. you know, beau -- beau was committed to my staying committed. we had a conversation towards the end when he was -- everybody -- we knew he wasn't going to live. he said, dad, we know it's going to happen. he said i am going to be okay, i am all right, i am not afraid. you've got to make me a promise. what's that, beau? i know when it happens you're going to want to quit. you are not going to stay engaged. dad, look at me. look at me, dad. give me your word as a biden. when i go, you'll stay engaged. give me your word.

give me your word. and i did. and then that's what -- i had not planned on running after he died. and then a charlotte charlottesville happen. >> reporter: in 2017 in charlottesville, virginia, demonstrations turned deadly on august 12, heather heyerdeminal, a civil rights activist was murdered in what the justice department called a hate inspired act of domestic terrorism. biden has long traced his decision to run in 2020 to that moment. >> it really is the beginning of your journey to the presidency. as you look at american democracy seven years later, how do you see it? >> when i spoke to the mom who lost her daughter, the

consequences of those neo-nazis and white supremacists, carrying nazi banners, singing the same sick antisemitic vile that we saw in germany in the '30s. when her daughter was killed, the press went to the then president trump and said what do you think? he said, they are fine people on both sides. i knew then i had to do something. and that's why i decided to run because democracy is literally at stake. you know, and then he made -- he evidenced everything that we thought. you know, january 6th, attack on the capitol. he talked about now -- because he now talks about making sure they are all -- you know, let out of prison, going to pardon them. think of this. every other time the ku klux klan has been involved, they

would have hoods so they are not identified. under his presidency they came out with no hoods. that's how i read it. they knew they had an ally in the white house. and he stepped up for them. . >> reporter: are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in january 2025? >> if trump wins, no, i am not confident at all. i mean, trump loses, i am not confident at all. he means what he says. be don't take him seriously. he means it. all the stuff about if we lose, there will be a bloodbath, a stolen election -- look what they are trying to do in the lo local election districts where people count the votes, people in states where they are going to count the viets, right. you can't lev ove your country y when you win. >> reporter: trump said his comments on charlottesville were

nationalists and he was warning of economic carnage when he said bloodbath. trump isn't the only thing on biden's mind. you have five months left in your presidency. you are managing two wars. domestic policy. the economy. on foreign policy, israel's war with hamas. is a cease-fire possible -- >> yes, still possible. the plan i put together endorsed by the g7, endorsed by the united security council, et cetera, is still viable. and i'm working literally every single day to -- and my whole team to see to it that it doesn't escalate into a regional warl. but it easily can. >> reporter: you had a lot of ambition. some senators told me in march of 2021 you took them into the oval office and point at fdr's portrait and said we are going big, we are going in that direction. >> i did and we have with the

great help of so many people. look, democracy works. it was very important to prove that it worked. prove that it worked. i mean, look at what we are able to do. created 16 million jobs. new jobs. we've gotten -- on the brink of having the private sector invest over a $1 trillion, a $1 trillion in the american economy. one of the things i fought for as a senator was -- a long time was to change the dynamic of how we grow the economy. not from the top down, but from the bottom up. the idea of trickle-down economics doesn't work in my view. >> reporter: you are proud of that record. will we see you out on the campaign trail for vice president kamala harris? >> yes, you will. i talk to her frequently. by the way, i know the running mate. as a great guy. if we would have grown up in the same neighborhood we would have been friends. he is my kind of guy. he is real. i have known him several decades. i think it's a hell of a team. >> reporter: those who expressed

skip simple about how much you will be on the trail or the rest of your term, raise questions about your health, what do you say to them? >> all i can say is watch. that's all. look, i had a really, really bad day in that debate because i was sick. but i have no serious problem. i was talking to governor shapiro, who is a friend. we have -- in pennsylvania, my original home state. he and i are putting together a campaign tour in pennsylvania. i am going to be campaigning in other states as wchl. i am going to do whatever -- and kamala thinks i can do to help most. >> reporter: we had this conversation in the president's private residence here in the white house treaty room where historic peace agreements have been signed. watching over us, ulysses s. grant, the general conturned president who labored to restore the union after the civil warl. when you think about the presidency, we are in a special room in the residence.

so much history in this room. how do you want history to remember president biden? >> that he proved democracy can work. it got us out of a pandemic. it produced the single greatest economic recovery in american history. we are the most powerful economy in the world. we have more to do. and it demonstrate thad we can pull the nation together. look, i have always believed and i still do, the american people are good and decent. they are honorable people. when i announced my cansy to run for president, i said we got to do three things. restore the soul of america, build the economy from not from the top down and bring the country together. no one thought we could get it done. my own people -- what we got done. one of the problems is -- i know all the things we did take a little time to work their way through. so now people are realizing, oh,

that highway, oh, that -- the big -- we didn't put up signs saying joe d id it. >> folks, the people of this nation have spoken. >> reporter: pour years ago what joe did was defeat donald trump. now with trump attempting to return to the white house, biden is sounding the alarm in a way sitting presidents rarely, if ever, do. the stakes are that high to you? >> i give you my word. mark my words. if he wins this nomination, i mean, excuse me, this election, watch what happens. it's a danger -- he is genuine danger to american security. look, weat an inflection point world history of the decisions we make in the last three, four years, the next three, four years, determine what the next six decades look like and democracy is the key and that's why i made it that speech at

johnson sner about the supreme court. the supreme court is so out of whack. so out of whack. and so i propose that we limit the terms to 18 years. so -- anyway. there is little regard where the maga republicans -- for the political institutions. that's what holds this country together. that's what democracy is about. that's who we are as a nation. >> reporter: mr. president, thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate it. it's an honor to be with you. >> reporter: an honor to be in this room with you. thank you. as 2 weeks. so this is better. even this. dupixent is an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that's not for sudden breathing problems. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. tell your doctor right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor about new or worsening joint aches and pain or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines including steroids, without talking to your doctor.

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everybody's journey is individual, wrote author james baldwin. on this, the centennial of baldwin's birth, kelefa sanneh finds more and more attention is being paid to his singular journey. >> it is now with great pleasure -- >> reporter: in 1965, in the packed cambridge union society in london -- >> i find myself not for the first time the position of a kind of jeremiah.

>> reporter: james baldwin, a voice of the civil rights movement, debated the commentator william buckley who was skeptical of the cause. the topic? that, quote, the american dream has been achieved at the expense of the american negro. >> it comes as a great shock around the age of 5 or 6 or 7 to discover the flag which you are pledged allegiance along with everybody else has not pledged allegiance to you. >> reporter: baldwin won in a landslide. 554 votes to 164. >> he didn't go to college. he ain't educated. he is po, you know, grew up in a place that isn't supposed to hold fire with buckley, with anyone. >> reporter: kevin young is the director of the national museum of african american history and culture in washington. he is also my colleague at "the new yorker." >> that's tremendous about him. to see his almost very american transformation and say, i have a

voice and i know what i believe and i can say it beautifully. >> reporter: 100 years ago, james arthur jones was born in harlem, new york. his mother, emma burtus jones, married david baldwin, a volatile baptist preacher. her son, now called james baldwin. found a nearby escape. >> he spent a lot of time here as a kid? >> yes, he came to visit the 135th street branch library three or four times a week. >> reporter: he once said he read every book in the billing, which is now the schomburg center for research in black culture. barry brown is curator of a new exhibition dedicated to jimmy, as he was known. >> he wanted to be a novelist and playwright. it seems he knew he was destined for great things. >> reporter: at the age of 24, baldwin moved to france where he wrote his first novel, go tell it on the mountain, and his first collection of essays,

"notes of a native son." >> i think there was this shadow that was sort of cast over him. >> reporter: rhea combs curated the smithsonian's natural portrait gallery exhibition. >> he was a visionary thinker and speaking truth to power in a way that was not necessarily always recognized or appreciated at the time. >> reporter: in the 1960s, baldwin marched and spoke out for civil rights in selma, in washington, and elsewhere. >> he is older than martin luther king and malcom x and medgar evers and he outlives all of them. >> i think he is doing that civil rights work that led in many ways to the movement. he transforms his unease into writing. >> reporter: in the '60s, he kind of acquires this reputation in america as a celebrity, as an oracle. >> at the heart of who he was, was an integrationist who

believed there were opportunities for america to live up to her principles and values. he is using his writings as a way to be autobiographical but it becomes a portrait of america ultimately. >> reporter: writer, essayist, black, new yorker, expatriate, gay. that's maybe affected the way he is viewed? >> 100%. james baldwin is a multiplicity of identities like we all are. and that's what i think resonates so much with his writings is that graplings of these multiple selves that make up an individual. >> reporter: did everyone know he was gay? >> i don't believe so. i think it was sort of assumed, presumed. >> reporter: in 1956, he published a pioneering novel, "giovanni's room," about a love affair between two white men in paris. >> i always go back to a quote, i want to be a honest man and good writer. these are slightly different

things. >> reporter: james baldwin died in 1987 at 63 at his home in the south of france paid for by his 42 books and hundreds of essays. he would be one generation removed from slavery. >> his grandmother, who lived with them, was -- had an enslaved. >> he is one of our most history-based writers. you can't get to america without going through baldwin. >> reporter: if he were still with us, do you think he would be surprised at how many people are still reading him and still talking about him? >> depends on the baldwin you meet. i think maybe in public he would be humble. in private, i knew i was right, you know? if you're 55 and up, t-mobile has plans built just for you. like two lines of unlimited for just $30 bucks a line. ...that's a 45 percent savings versus verizon and at&t! plus, get one of the latest 5g phones free when you add a line.

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♪ ♪ ♪ it's sunday morning on skrbs and here again is jane pauley. >> he is one of the most popular musicians in the world. now something of a crossover king as he tries his hand at country music. with anthony mason, we have a summer song from post malone. >> what are we doing today? >> shooting a music video today with mr. luke combs. >> reporter: nashville shut down

its legendary broadway for post malone last month. ♪ i got a ♪ >> we will be performing on the back of a semi-truck. >> reporter: one of the biggest pop stars in the world -- ♪ ♪ >> reporter: singing with one of the biggest names in country. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: stars like luke combs signed up quick for post's country album. >> he heard he was going to be working on this thing and i wanted to be a big part of it. big times for country music. >> reporter: the new album, "f-1 trillion," also features duets with other country superstars, including morgan wallen, blake selton, and dolly parton. >> everyone here was so accepting and kind. >> reporter: that's a testament to you. >> i disagree. i think that's a testament to

them. >> reporter: post malone wasn't met with that kind of acceptance in the beginning. in 2015, when his hip hop track white iverson dropped on the internet and went viral he was called a culture vulture, a one-hit wonder. how did that feel to you? >> it sucked. >> reporter: yeah. >> i was a kid. >> reporter: 19, 20. how did you deal with it? >> drink a lot. >> reporter: did you take it personally? >> absolutely. it's hard not to. >> reporter: but he kept writing hit songs. >> it's not for the people who hate you. it's for the people who love you and for yourself. you know what i mean? >> reporter: a decade later, he has more than 40 billion streams on spotify. and six number one hits, including a pop song, a hip hop

track, and, most recently, a country tune. ♪ ♪ >> stevie ray vaughn -- >> reporer: across his knuckles are tattooed an eclerk particular collection of heroes. >> gorge harrison, hank senior. they are all dead dudes. >> reporter: dudes that are important to you. >> yes, sir, absolutely. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: austin richard post, he added malone as a stage name, grew up in dallas where his dad managed concessions for the cowboys. what made you want to play germany? >> germany hero. it was.

100%. and i was like, well, let me get a real guitar and see if it translates and it did not. >> reporter: but austin started writing songs and found what "rolling stone" would call a gift for turning dreamy darkness into top 40 gold. ♪ ♪ >> you are making a baby with, like, sound waves, which is neat, i think. >> reporter: he has a baby now. a 2-year-old daughter he sings about in the new song "yours." we talked about her as he was cracking open a beer. you are already envisioning your daughter getting married? >> i think about it a lot. ♪ ♪

>> reporter: is that the first song you have written about your daughter? >> no, sir. i have written a whole lot of songs. >> reporter: he keeps her name private, but her initials are tattooed on his forehead. right by the brain? >> yes, sir. i never forget her. if you heard her cry, you'll never forget her either. [ laughter ] it changes your life in the best way ever and the most beautiful thing is she has a beautiful mom. >> reporter: you have said she saved your life kind of? >> that's true. her and her mom. >> reporter: in what way? >> four years ago, i was on a rough path. >> reporter: what were you wrestling with then? >> everything. it was terrible. >> reporter: you were already really successful. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: so what was troubling you? >> that's a good question. j wrus a lot -- loneliness.

>> reporter: post says he was spiraling downward. >> getting up, having a good cry, drinking, and then going, living your life and then, whenever you go lay down, drinking some more and having a good cry. and just, like, i got to wake up tomorrow and do this again. and i don't feel like that anymore. and it's the most amazing thing. >> reporter: i am sorry you went through that. >> it's all right. i needed to for myself to figure out who i am. >> reporter: at 29, post malone, who fans affectionately call po posty, is now one of the most popular musicians in the world. backstage, before a gig in nashville last month, he was nervous. >> i got a big pit into my stomach, like ready to go, big

butterflies. >> reporter: but posty has an intimate relationship with his fans. >> thank you for your love and thank you for your support over all these years, ladies and gentlemen. >> reporter: you tell your audience frequently that you're loved? >> it's true. >> reporter: why do you do that? >> it's important, because not everyone knows it. there is a lot of very, i think, lonely people. >> reporter: are you trying to give people something that you, yourself, have at times felt missing? >> i think so. i think so. yes, sir, i think that's a good way to put it because i don't want people to feel how i felt. and i know they do. and i'm here and i am on stage and i just want everyone to feel welcome and loved. that's the most important thing for me. >> reporter: and the love you get back is just as important? >> i cannot even believe it, the place that i'm in.

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you might call them nature's real life blue bloods, horseshoe crabs, ungainly creatures, uniquely valuable to humankind. conor knighton has the story of a species. >> reporter: located between delaware and new jersey, the tranquil waters of the debby of delaware bay offer a bit of calm. but for a couple months each year -- >> it was a chaotic party on the beach. the bay is home to the world's largest population of horseshoe crabs. are they looking for mates at this point? >> they are. these are all males mostly looking for females. >> reporter: lisa ferguson the

director of research and conservation at the wetlands institute. while they spend most of their time underwater, they surface to lay their eggs. >> they are depositing eggs into the sand. she has males that are coming along with her. >> reporter: an estimated 40 million horseshoe crabs live in the bay, although they can be found all along the atlantic coast. >> horseshoe crabs have been around over 450 million years. >> reporter: further up the beach tony works with the american littoral society teaching vol terse tiers how to tag select crabs for tagging. described as living fossils, these bizarre creatures survived numerous mass extinction events. >> they are arthropods and that's why they are closely related to scorpions and spiders and they are not crabs. >> reporter: horseshoe crab not a crab? >> horseshoe crab not a crab. >> reporter: not a horse either. >> yeah. >> reporter: a female can play

four eggs a night. >> you can see the eggs that washed up and come to the surface. >> reporter: they are tiny. but only the ones that stay buried in the sand have a chance of hatching. when the tide turns into a feeding frenzy. it seems like we are not the only people who know they are eggs here. other species figured that out? >> that's right. >> reporter: migratory shorebirds depend on the eggs and fly thousands of miles to eat them. birds like the red knot, which makes a pit stop in the delaware bay to refuel on its journey from south america to the arctic. and where there are birds, there are birders. seeing this migration in person is a bucket list activity for jay bolden. but while birding is just a hobby for him, his professional life is linked to the crabs. you have a crab pen? >> yeah. >> reporter: a senior biologist with the eli lilly company he is familiar with the medical marvel flowing underneath the horseshoe

crab shells. >> this is purified horseshoe crab blood. >> reporter: limulus amoebocyte lysate made from the bright blue blood of horseshoe crabs is used to detect dangerous endotoxins in medicine. >> have all of us benefitted? >> sure, if you have gotten a vaccine. anything that comes into contact has to be shown to be free of endotoxins. >> reporter: while they can be found everywhere, you don't want it to put him straight into your bloodstream. it could make you sick or potentially kill you. horseshoe crab blood retacts to the presence of endotoxins why for decades it's been used to test medicines, syringes and implantable medical devices. before this method was developed scientists tested with live rabbits. >> every pharmaceutical company, everyone is using this. anyone making an injectable is using it. >> reporter: the collecting and br bleeding of crabs, while live crabs are returned to the water,

some do die in the collection process. but it's difficult to know the total impact. >> they throw it in the water sand say you, know, that crab lived. but they have no idea that that crab is going to live. >> reporter: you are looking for a better procedure? >> i want better practices. >> reporter: larry niles is the co-founder. horseshoe crab recovery coalition which advocates for increased transparency in the bleeding industry. he has been studying cranberries since the late 1980s. how have you seen the crab population decline? >> we best measure that by the eggs because that's the most direct connection with the birds. and so the eggs have gone down by about 90%. >> reporter: in the 199 # 0s there was a bait boom that led to significant decline after fishermen started use the crab to catch eels. >> they take every crab coming ashore. within two years, they were taking 2.5 million crabs a year.

and almost right away our egg density started crashing. >> reporter: while horseshoe crabs are still used as bait today, the harvest is now better regulated. state by state there are a patchwork of protections which address bait and bleeding. still the center for biological diversity and 22 partner organizations are trying to get the horseshoe crab listed as an endangered species in part due to how many other species like the threatened red knots depend on them. the bait industry, significant habitat loss, sea level rise pose challenges. at least in the biomedical world there is change on the horizon. >> the reason i am hopeful is because synthetic. synthetic is a very important advance. >> reporter: you mix these in a certain ratio? that's where jay bolden and his lab come to in. they have been working to get elon eli lilly and others to use synthetic alternatives originally discovered in

singapore. is the synthetic just as good as the real deal? >> it is. it's the biochemical equivalent. >> reporter: eli lilly has converted 80% of the testing to use a synthetic product. >> i knew the impact to the birds and crabs and it's something we can make a positive change. >> reporter: testing old products with new methods requires new regulatory approvals. and in the lab pictures of the crabs and birds remind the scientists why they are making the switch. rabbits protected us for 40 years. horseshoe crabs have protected us for 40 years. 40 years from now, we won't need to be impacting animals to it do this test. >> reporter: meantime, every crab counts. which is why lisa and this group of trained volunteers are walking along the delaware bay turning over toppled crabs to help make sure they get back to the water after spawning. it's called return the favor. you feel like they have done us a favor? >> they have done us a favor. we are returning that favor.

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the air. >> come with me. >> reporter: except there are no wands, but crochet hooks instead. >> i want to thank you all for being a part. >> reporter: and holly christensen is the fairy godmother in this story. >> having been a cancer nurse, i know that small gestures of love go a long way. >> reporter: she runs the magic yarn project where volunteers transform yarn into character wigs for kids with cancer or any child dealing with medical hair loss. there are all kinds of princesses. rapunzel from tangled, else is from "frozen" and "moana" are some of the popular requests. jack sparrow asuperheroes. any character a child sees themselves as.

>> they put on a batman beanie or the elsa wig and all of a sudden they light up. now they are not so afraid to have their port access to get chemotherapy because i am brave like batman, i am powerful like elsa, and they get to just be kids again. >> reporter: this fairy tale began a decade ago when it wasn't a fairy tale for her friend, whose daughter lily was undergoing chemotherapy at age 3. wigs made out of real hair weren't really an option. >> their skin is often so sensitive, they can't tolerate those wigs. so they will wear bean knees or scarves on their heads, which is wonderful but difficult, especially for young children. >> reporter: soft yarn was the magic solution. >> just pull the tail through. >> reporter: and what began in 2015 with one rapunzel wig for princess lily, who is now cancer

free, has spun into a national nonprofit with ten chapters nationwide. >> it's an army of magic makers. >> that's and what we call them. the result of these wigs and the effect they have on the children and parents is magical. >> reporter: of course, she wouldn't mind if someone else had a magic trick up their sleeve to keep the organization tightly knit. >> growing sustainably has been difficult. we are running out of our homes and garages. >> reporter: but magic makers are still hooked. they even reached a milestone last year, crocheting a total of more than 50,000 wigs. each and every fiber counts. >> sadly, the demand is not going away. there are over 200,000 children diagnosed with cancer in the world every year. 15,000 alone in the u.s. >> reporter: so you are scratching the surface? >> exactly.

>> reporter: but scratching the surface can do wonders for just that one family. >> maclin was just a spirited 2-year-old that people just came to love. they loved her smile. >> reporter: mallory and justin campbell didn't know about the project when 2-year-old mack was being treated for cancerous tumor in her head in 2015. but someone made a request on their behalf and knew that mack loved the litt"the little merma >> i remember the day we received the package and her opening it up and lighting. one of my favorite pictures is me walking into a room and seeing her looking at herself in the mirror and she was just grinning, like she just felt is beautiful at that time. >> reporter: which is why, when mack passed away in may of 2016,

the picture of her wearing that ariel wig forever rests to her headstone in franklin, idaho. >> it's one of my favorite pictures of her. her mile is so genuine. to me it shows you what that big did for her. it helps you not think about what they are battling and just be able to focus on them and their happiness. >> reporter: it takes seeing the photos, the videos, or the written emails that we receive from parents to realize that we may not be saving lives b but what we are doing is giving life and hope to others. while, of course, the hope is that we eradicate cancer, the hope is we can save every life, we can't do everything, but we can do something.

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>> in the summer after seventh grade, okay, that isn't a photo of me from seventh grade. look, it was the 1970s, and i was the youngest of six kids. honestly, i am surprised there are any photos of me. anyway, in the summer after seventh grade, i tried to grow corn in sand. i did. i wasn't a bright kid. you see, i loved popcorn. i still do. but back then i was obsessed with popcorn. for my birthday that year i was given my own hot air popcorn popper. once upon a time, that was cutting-edge technology. well, to me it was. one day my mom casually mentioned if i planted a kernel of popcorn, a corn plant would grow. this blew my mind. i could grow my own popcorn? again, i wasn't a bright kid. either way, the next day i set out to grow my own popcorn. the only issue was we lived among the sand dunes next to lake michigan. the soil wasn't ideal for

growing anything. well, it was sand. this didn't deter me. i took my handful of popcorn kernels and planted them next to the beach grass that sparsely grew around our house. i watered the soil. i mean sand, diligently. you my parents and older siblings snickered and thought i was crazy. then the most incredible thing happened. little tiny corn plants sprouted. i was thrilled and proud. i was growing corn. then the corn plants died. it was sand, after all much you can't grow corn in sand, at least i couldn't. this summer i am growing corn once again. now in a new york city suburb. here is our first ear of corn. my wife and children snicker and think i'm crazy. this is my third year in a row trying to grow corn successfully. if my recent past harvests are any indication, this summer i'll

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>> reporter: in the scope of your incredible career, how important was "once upon a mattress"? >> way up there. >> are you some kind of nut? >> reporter: the show, seen here in a later version nmade for cb, the old fairy tale the princess and the pea about the princess who could feel a pea under a stack of mattresses and from the start it seemed like princess winifred was a role carol burnett was born to play. it was her broadway debut. >> i'm ready whenever you are. >> reporter: and a golden opportunity for a girl who grew up nearly penleyless. how ironic that you played this princess on this pile of royal mattresses and yet you, yourself, didn't have your own bed until you were 21 years old? >> right.

i slept on the couch. i lived with my grandmother in a one-room apartment in hollywood until i left to if to new york. then i lived in a wonderful place called the rehearsal club. >> reporter: and you had a cot? >> i had a cot. i thought, wow, this is nice. i have a bed for the first time. >> reporter: her thread-bare upbringing might explaining her ferocious work ethic. in 1959 between mattress and her regular cbs network gig on the gary moore show carol burnett was working seven days a week. in fact, she was so exhausted, that during one matinee performance atop the mattresses she actually passed out. you literally fell asleep? >> i conked out. at the beginning, i'm pretending to be asleep. maybe i put an audience to sleep. but i could sleep in front of an audience. i remember the stage manager going, carol! carol!

wake up! holy -- maybe i was out for a minute. i don't know. or two. but it was long. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but the hard work was literally paying off. burnett was soon making what was then a fortune. more than $500 a week. >> i was rolling in dough. i mean, i never seen that much money in my life. >> reporter: what did you do with it? >> i spent it. [ laughter ] you know what? i bought the first pair of shoes that actually fit auto me. >> reporter: that was then. you hadn't had a pair of shoes that fit you before? >> i couldn't afford it. when i got mattress and gary, i remember getting my first pair of high heels that fit. wrichlt wow. >> it was a thrill. i wish i still had them. i'd have them bronzed. >> reporter: "once upon a mattress" has held up pretty well through the years both on

stage and screen. it was last adapted for tv in 2005. carol played the scheming queen that time. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and the newest version opens this week with two-time tony winner sutton foster in the lead role. >> it's a gift to be able to play such a wild and crazy character. >> reporter: she says the princess role is fun. but playing her night after night takes everything she has. ♪ ♪ >> it's like dolly parton has that phrase it toakes a lot of money to look this cheap. it takes a lot of hard work. that's my goal. oh, this old thing? it's nothing. inside i'm, oh, my god, oh, my

god. then, oh, yeah, i do this every day. piece of cake. inside -- >> reporter: we couldn't help but wonder what carol burnett herself would think of sutton foster's interpretation. so we got the two of them together. >> there she is. >> hi. >> how is it going? >> hi, sweetheart. >> so good to see you. >> hi. >> hi. >> thanks for sog t doing this. >> reporter: it's pretty clear that carol is a fan. >> there couldn't be a better -- i mean, you are it. i knew the minute they said it. what took them so long? you know. because -- so it's perfect. perfect. >> reporter: sutton, you watched "the carol burnett show" growing up. what kind of effect did that have on you? >> it was everything. i watched every week. i would tune in. >> you were the one? >> i was the one, the only one. >> do you have proof you are my -- that you're my --

>> reporter: you were funny. >> you were tall, unafraid, confident, and i was like, i want to do that, i want to be that. i was always tuning in to see that spontaneity and aliveness and to be able to look up to someone who was unafraid to be ridiculous. >> so do you two have a secret princess winifred handshake? >> not yet. >> i feel like you need a secret handshake. >> but if we show you, then it won't be secret. >> right. >> all right. lumps. >> reporter: and now -- >> watch out. >> reporter: as the crown is passed from one princess winifred to another, "once upon a mattress" seems poised to deliver a few more happily ever afters. what are your hopes this time around? >> that it's a great success. here it is, 65 years later, and this show is going to keep going. it's a fairy tale. then there will be some day that there will be a girl that you're going to love the way i love you

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you are like, that's my mom. >> that's my mom. i don't think i understood at the time. what that show meant culturally when it was on the air. >> reporter: it was the same for her dad, rock star lenny kravitz. ♪ are you gonna go my way ♪ >> reporter: who shared custody of zero after he and bonet divorced. >> he picked me up from school one day and the entire school, like, flooded to the parking lot. it was just this insane scene. it was just a moment of really understanding what his life was like. >> reporter: she'd follow in their footsteps. >> we're fine. >> reporter: poke ago little fun at their celebrity. >> i see in the way you show up and take care of the people you love. >> reporter: like when her father received a star on the hollywood walk of fame. >> mostly, i have seen through your shirts. [ laughter ]

>> reporter: at 35, krvitz knows who she is and what inspires her. >> i am attracted to strong women. women who don't see themselves as victims or aren't written as victims really. >> reporter: her co-stars on "big little lies," oscar winners reese witherspoon and nicole kidman, have been a guiding force in front of and behind the camera. >> having a community of women that show up for each other and take care of each other whether it's supporting each other's projects or getting together and having a glass of wine and a laugh and a cry, whatever, that was an incredible gift. >> something -- >> reporter: which brings us back to "blink twice." opening in theaters this month. >> i would say the women in this film are bad ass. >> yes, they are. >> you got all that? it's been a whirlwind? >> i have an excellent memory. >> you look good. kind of familiar. do i know you from somewhere? >> what? >> nothing.

>> reporter: we watched a scene featuring the film's leads, naomi aki and channing tatum. >> i wanted it to feel a little disorienting. >> reporter: the only thing you didn't put in was "the shining" -- >> like the spark on the teeth. i like playful filmmaking. i like when the audience has a sense of, it's a movie, you know what i mean, and we are all in it together and it's not reality. >> reporter: but what did become reality, a real romance with her star, channing tatum and kravitz fell in love during production and are now engaged. >> look at those eyes. >> very handsome. >> what's not to love, honestly? >> this is you. >> what's it like directing someone you're in a relationship with? is it more difficult? >> no. i directed him the same way i directed all my other actors. you get to know all your actors and different actors want

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