Search of answers in our sunday morning cover story. Reporter what do Thomas Jefferson and john adams have in common . These two guys both president s of the United States both died on the same day. July 4th. Not just any july 4th, but the exact 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. Reporter a freaky coincidence. Does it have a larger meaning . Ahead on sunday morning. Charles Michael Keaton has a long track record of playing just about any role. How does he feel about taking on his latest . Lee cowan is going to find out. Reporter we know him as the actor with relentless energy. It makes me want to kiss you. Reporter or pretty dark. Im batman. I always think, if its the right kind of scared, thats a good sign. Reporter nothing scared him quite as much as his challenging new role. Michael keatons journey, from batman to birdman later on sunday morning. Charles dreamers and doers of the computer age, front and center in the latest work with noted author. Reporter Walter Isaacson has won praise with benjamin franklin. Albert einstein and steve jobss. But his new book focuses on the innovator who is powered the computer and internet revolution. This is about people who how to collaborate and from the 40s to the present created the digital revolution. Reporter later on sunday morning, a walk through digital history. Charles and well be hear for example a newly mipted musical phenomenon. Singer sam smith. Anthony has the honors. Reporter this song, and that voice have made sam smith an International Star almost overnight. Reporter do you think you were prepared for where you are . Im not. Reporter where did he come from . We will, when we go home with sam smith ahead on sunday morning. Charles paige taily toasts madeline. And Steve Hartman treats us to beautiful music at a retirement home. Chip reid exploits the histories of the kennewick man. First the headlines, the 12th of october, 2014. A Health Care Worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at texas presbyterian hospital, may have tested positive for the virus. Officials are running further tests to confirm that preliminary finding. New stricter arrival screenings for the virus have go into effect at some u. S. Airports. A 21 month old mexican girl to die from a virus causing severe rez practice tore problems with children across the country. 5 others have died. A possible massacre in the syria border town of kobani. Islamic state militants now control about 40 of the town, despite waves of u. S. Airstrikes aimed at them. Seven teenage Football Players in new jersey are facing sex crime charges in connection with hazing attacks that took place last month. The charges prompted School Officials at the Memorial High School to cancel the teams football season. Heres todays weather. Severe thunderstorms are expected to move across the plains. Wet and cool in the northwest. The perfect day for leaf lovers in the northeast. In the week ahead. Cooler across the country, except the central plains. Sunny in the south. Tomorrow is columbus day, marking Christopher Columbus arrival in the americas. A parade here in new york and in San Francisco. Columbus day is no not observee in every state. In hawaii its discoverers day. In canada sts thanksgiving. In this country many post offices are closed, and so are many schools. With a large enough sample of events any outrageous thing could happen. Charles coming up, the Science Behind coincidence. And stay with us for sam smith. ,,,,,,,,,, charles what a coincidence. Thats what some say when you run into an old friend we havent seen for years on the street corner. Is it a chance encounter or something more . The cover story reported by Susan Spencer of 48 hours. Have a good day. Goodbye. Reporter bill and laurie solomon attribute their happy 16 year marriage to an unseen force, perhaps greater than love. Greater than random. Reporter coincidence. The solomons say a series of unbelievable coincidences really left them little choice. Do you think you would have gotten peared had this not been all such a coincidence . I dont know if we want to met. Reporter coincidence one. Bills mother and hillarys father were High School Friends not in touch for 40 years when they reconnected by chance. They realized that one had a son named bill, and one had a daughter named hillary. The people in the white house at the time. How funny. Weve got to fix them up. Reporter coincidence two. In a city of more than 7 million people, bill and hillary lived in the same neighborhood on the same street in the same building. In fact, in the very same line of apartments. There may were, just seven floors apart. Youre parents cant believe this. They were shocked. Reporter bills mother insisted he had to call hillary. But he played in cool, until coincidence three. He ran into a former coworkener his building. I said what are you doing in the lobby . Said i have a good friend in the building. I said who is what, she said hillary kimmelman. Bill made the call, and the rest is history. Coincidence is a striking occurrence of event that is appear to be meaningful related, but, in fact, theyre related only by chance. Reporter Professor Jay koehler from chicago is an expert on probability. A classic example of coincidence is you think of about somebody you havent thought of for years, and you know where im going. The phone things and its them. Reporter coincidents fascinate us, when they are like Thomas Jefferson. When jefferson and addd adams signed the declaration of independence, they had no idea they would one day be linked by a freaky coincidence. These two guys, both president s of the United States, both died on the same day, july 4th. Not just any july 4th, but the exact 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. And that was the beginning of my questioning whether there was something more to coincidence than just coincidence. Reporter for squire rushnell, it was a sign, a one time tv executive had started a successful cottage industry, books, speeches, all about coincidences, or as he calls them, godwinks. A godwink is one of those coincidences that makes you say two things. Wow, what are the odds of that . And i wonder if that coincidence evidence of divine origin . Reporter rushnells answer, a resounding yes. I believe that everybody has godwinks. Theyre like gifts left on the doorstep, and my job is to get you to open the door and open your gift. Reporter inside that godwink gift box, rushnell says you might find the relationship like bill and hillary solomon did, or even the right career. Reporter this is the cbc evening news, Susan Spencer reporting. Now some things caused you to be at cbc. Maybe it was a call out of the blue. Maybe it was somebody you bumped into. But maybe it wasnt by chance at all. Maybe it was godwink. Reporter maybe it was because i applied for a year. Theres some research to suggest that the feeling of destiny can be good for you mentally. Reporter even if it is reassuring, it is not reality according to science writer, matt hudson who says while coincidences are not destiny, they are destineed to happen, thanks to something called the law of truly large numbers. Its a term that a lot of mathmeticians came up to describe this idea that with a large enough sample of events, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. Thinking about it, if you flip a coin long enough, eventually, youll get 10 heads in a row, and the universe flips a lot of coins. Reporter all those coin flips add up to a simple mathematical answer for even the weirdest coincidences. He played the numbers on a fluke, the new york state lottery on the First Anniversary of 9 11. You know the winning numbers . 911. Yeah. Lots of things happening to lots of people every day, youre going to come across an occurrence of event that is seems extremely unlikely. Reporter youre taking all the fun out of it. So when two former president s dieed on the same day, it wasnt mystical, just mathematical. But we tend to make these things mystical by annoying little details. So when people were comparing jefferson and adams. There were lots of things they didnt find. Did they have the same number of kids . Scratch that. And the selection fallacy to select out the interesting part. Reporter its like were hard wired to be amazed by these things. Thats the power of rationality. Reporter what about the power of godwinks or the force of destiny. Science writer matt hudson. I cant rule it out. I cant rule out unicorns, but theres no strong evidence of unicorns. Reporter youre really a kill joy. Thats my mathmeticians will also have an answer for everything. They have to. I put more faith in the grand designer than i do in accidents happening numerically. Reporter for rushnell, the stories are evidence enough, like this one about actress dianne lane whose father drove a new York City Taxi when she was a kid. He would come and pick her up after school. She would stand on her tippy toes looking for that one cab out of all those cabs. 6 f 99. Remember the number. 6 f 99. Shortly after her father died, lane was thinking about her dad. At that moment, her car pulled to the curb, she stepped out, and her heart lept. Pulling in right in front was cab number 6 f 99. Now what are the odds that one cab, her fathers exact medallion would be at that exact spot at that exact moment in time to give her a message of hope and reassurance. Reporter its all familiar territory to the solomons whose list of coincidences seems almost endless. And our fathers have the same exact birthday. June 10th. Her father went to boston university, and so did i. And his roommates in college became my dads roommate. Get out. Reporter one thing, believers and doubters agree on. You are more likely to find lifes amazing coincidences if youre looking for them. Do you think ill have one of these today . I bet you do. Only if you allow them. Reporter im ready. Once you see a godwink, you see them all the time. Present egg oation of the medal president truman. Corporal doss of lynchburg, virginia. An idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98 . No matter how fast your Business Needs to adapt, if hp Big Data Solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. Make it matter. Lots of them, right . But when you try to get one by using your travel rewards card miles. Those seats mysteriously vanish. Why . All the flights you want are blacked out. Or they hit you up for some outrageous number of miles. Switch to the venture card from capital one. With venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. No blackout dates. And with every purchase youll earn unlimited double miles. Now were getting somewhere. Whats in your wallet . Charles and now for the sunday morning almanac. Reporter washington, the congressional medal of honor for many top heroes. Charles october 12th, 1945, 69 years ago today. And congratulations. Charles today an Award Ceremony like no others. Reporter presentation of the medals by president truman himself. Charles president truman personally handed out the medals to the heroes of world war ii. Each with an aspiring story to tell. Highlight interest today is on Corporal Desmond doss of virginia. Charles he was a conscientious objecter. The first objecter to ever win the congressional medal. Okinawa. Charles during a two thafl month long battle of okinawa. Doss was serving as an unarmed medic. On just one day, the citation noted doss carried 75 wounded men to safety. One by one, all while braving enemy fire with no means of shooting back. I thank god for letting me do my part in this war, and saving the lives of my fellow men. Charles desmund saw serious wounds of his own after the long battle, and devoted much of the rest of his life to his church. Charles and during the vietnam war, the Seventh Day Adventist trained people to be medics. He died in 2006 at the age of 87, 61 years after giving the gift of life to so many. Reporter and for his kind of courage, americas conscientious admiration. One day when out to take the air charles ahead. Madeline said charles time with madeline. How did the most wanted man in world escape arrest so many times. Pouring millions into an escape that would make james bond jealous. Charles the very best books of childhood manage to stay generation after generation. Theres a birthday card for one of the most enduring characters of such books. Madeline. Reporter in an old house in paris covered with vines. The bread and brush their teeth and went to bed. Madeline. Reporter for generations of children, those familiar lines have made the beginning of another tale of madeline. The beguiling little girl with bright red her and a blue coat made her debut in 1939. With nearly 14 million copies of sold, madelines appeal shows no signs of wearing off. Why do you think madeline is so enduring . Shes in every girl. Shes brave. Shes adventurous. Shes funny. Shes what every Little American girl wants to be. Jane curly is the curator of the New York Historical society celebrating madelines 77th birthday. The 50y girl is full of surprises. People think shes french. Shes not. Shes american in a french boarding school. People think miss quinle is a nun. Shes not. The book arent academic. There are no classrooms. The kids are out in the world having adventures. Reporter traveling through europe meeting ambassadors, gypsies and magicians alike. Its the tale of a girl who gets herself in and out of trouble, not x uk like her creator ludwig bemelmans. The daughter of the mother, and based on, but i think really it was himself, and he was always getting into trouble. Reporter John Bemelmans marciano is the grandson. The father left the family when he was five years old. He had a hard time with it, but also someone no matter how hard things got, he embraced life. Born in austria. Ludwig bemelmans often ran afoul of authorities. At 16 he had to choose between Reform School or emigrating to america. He chose america. He found work as a busboy at the ritz hotel in new york city. All the while begining to develop his true calling. He loved the hotel business, but all the time he was here, she was drawing on the backs of menus, or using the bakery wall as a place to draw, and then mop off the wall. Reporter for years, the self thought bemelmans worked day job and pursued art. He published a comic strip, and illustrated for town and country. And then in 1935 he married and had a daughter barb ra. Life was hard, but took it in stride saying my greatest inspiration is a low bank balance. It was a vacation on a French Island and a chance meeting with a little girl that provided his greatest inspiration. Managed to run him over, and thankfully was the ambulance, and it brought him to the hospital where there was a crack tht ceiling that looked like a rabbit, and the little girl in the room next door who came in and proudly showed off her appendix scar to my grandfather and everyone else. Reporter so that was the seed of madeline . Yeah. Reporter bemelmans returned to new york and wrote the opening lines of madeline, incorporating tales his mother told about the childhood school where the beds were in rows and all the girls dressed alike. Madeline was named after her grandmother, right . It was, but madeline didnt rhyme with anything. The first madeline book was a success, and five more followed catching the eye of jacqueline kennedy. The first lady wrote a fan letter in 1961. You sent her a drawing back that he wrote to jacqueline. And a friendship ensued. They even talked about writing a book where madeline would come and visit jacqueline in the white house. Bemelmans passed away in 1962, but his fictional girl lives on. Theyre in cartoons and movies. The smallest one was madeline. What do you think . Its great. You captured it. Madeline . Reporter then 15 years ago, John Marciano revived the series. And miss kennedys wish, madeline at the white house. Kids havent changed. She really captures the spirit of a particular kid. They love the language. They love whats happening. Reporter whats your favorite thing about madeline . That shes not afraid of tigers. Reporter what do you love about madeline . That she plays. Reporter what endures is a little girl who isnt afraid of experiencing the ups and downs of life. A little girl who never grows old. And go to sleep said miss quinnell as she turned out the lights and closed the door. Charles still to come. Introducing sam smith. And the mothers and fathers of invention. ,,,,,, oh, wont you stay with me charles stay with me is a very big hit. Most of us hadnt heard of until recently. Introducing sam smith, Anthony Mason pays him a visit. I need love. No, its not a good look. Reporter his is the voice behind the international smash, stay with me. Almost overnight, that soulful falsetto made sam smith one of the biggest stars in the world. Oh wont you stay with me reporter do you think you were prepared for where you are now . I think i was not. Actually a hundred percent no. Reporter earlier this year, the 22yearold singer had two songs top the british charts. I wanted it so bad, and i still want it so bad that the thought of being 60 years old and thinking i could have tried harder you can you hear my song . Reporter then he invaded america. How did it feel to play saturday night live . It was scary. Cleverly, on the morning said to me it was ridiculous. But it was. Reporter his album, in the loney hour is the best selling debut of the year in the u. S. Number one. Its on everybodys watch list for twaent 14. Give it up for sam smith. Reporter the 63 singer came out of nowhere. Its hard to tell where i come from. Its in between cambridge is a half hour away. London is an hour away. Reporter smith grew up in the village of Great Chishill where he started mapping out a career observe he was even a teenager. What was the plan . I was to move to london and come here reporter worked out well . Right here. That was my bedroom there. Reporter his mother, a banker, and his stay at home dad noticed his talent. So did neighbors like jim cunningham. You remember this guy . Of course i do. Around here, causing all kinds of trouble. And he used to be screeching out of that window. But it was wonderful. Reporter in grade school at st. Thomas moore he sang in the school musicals. Who have we got today. Reporter when we returned with him last month, his album had just hit number one again in england. Stay with me reporter after school, smith would walk for hours along country roads, headphones on, singing along with beyonce. Yeah. This is my little spot. My first ever job over there. Reporter how did you pick the spot . Something about listening to music and looking at that for me. It just makes music sound sweeter you know what i mean . Reporter certainly. I remember sometimes being here, right . Id be listening to music for hours and hours and hours, and then suddenly a car would screech up here, and my dad would think ive been kidnapped. Reporter his father would connect him with a music teacher. Joanna. What did you work on . Come fly with me. Come fly with me. Reporter by age 12, he had his first manager. Thank you. Reporter but it didnt all come easily. I had adults around me promising me things which they knew was a lie. Reporter did you doubt yourself . A hundred percent. Even now i doubt myself. I dont understand what the big fuss is. I dont understand what people hear in my voice. I cant hear it myself. Reporter smiths breakthrough came in 2012 when the Electronic Group disclosure asked him to sing lead on their hit. Thats when he and his producer jimmy nates started writing songs together. How does the process work these chords to me. I hated them. Reporter in a week, they had this tune. Dont ever walk away. I cant believe its the way. Reporter smith and nates also cowrote stay with me. The chorus is actually smiths voice recorded in 40 different takes. Stay with me. It felt like a choir. It was just me. Everyone thinks its a chorus choir. I want the credit. Reporter smith says his album was because of unrequited love for a married man. I told my secrets. Im an open and honest person. I was a bit lonely, and the fact that maybe i love someone, and they didnt love me back. And when i decided to tell the entire world that in the lonely hour, which i just didnt think through i didnt realize quite how much i was revealing. Thank you for coming out. I hope you know how much it means to me. Reporter its not just the voice. Its his vulnerability that has made sam smith a star. Part of your success is that you have shown yourself. Yes, i know. The whole entire room sing that to me. I just cant explain the feeling. Its unreal. You feel like you just read your diary to thousands of people, and theyve gone, its okay, we still love you. Oh, wont you stay with me. All night charles next. All night charles next. Remembered. Jan hooks charles it happened this past week. In the back. Its jesus christ. Yes . Yes. Charles the loss of one very funny woman. Comedienne jan hooks died thursday in new york. Born in georgia, hooks broke into the movies as an alamo tour guide in the 1985 film, pee wees big adventure. Were now did i hear someones charles in 1986 in the start of a five year run on nbcs saturday night live. Come in here. Mrs. Reagan seems to be having trouble finding her way out. Charles laughs with her impersonations. Everyone from televangelist tammy ray baker. And i put my hands up and i said jesus, i believe you heal. Charles to then first lady, hillary clinton. I happen to be the copresident of the United States. [ laughter ] charles who could ever forget her collaboration with nora dunn who produced the unique song stylings of the sweeney sisters. I dont know about you, but after being here a few minutes, ive got one thing to say release me, let me go. Charles in 1991, jan hooks left snl for roles including designing women. More recently slee appeared on the series 30 rock. I had horrible stage fright she once confessed adding after dress rehearsal she would implore please cutering im in. Fortunately for fans they didnt cut everything jan hooks was in. Jan hooks was 57 charles ahead on the trail of the 31st computer bug. ,,,, charles weve gotten to know some of the most important dreamers and doers, thanks to a special writer who makes it his business. Reetsa braver has been watching him. Go ahead. You can look at your dashboard. Reporter in San Francisco, tech crunch disrupt conference showcasing the latest digital products. And just when youre thinking everyone looks so young, you catch up with a silver haired fellow who knows just what to watch for. Instead of looking at the product, i look at the people behind it and say are they going to be able to innovate and change when the original plan couldnt work. Walter isaacson has spent years studying what it takes to make it in the internet err a. His biography of steve jobs was a top selling book. This month hes out with the innovator published by simon and schuster, already nominated for a National Book award. Its the story of how a group of visionaries, many of them unsung, created the computer and internet revolution. What made them succeed . What traits did it take . I wanted to give concrete story telling meaning who it ta takes to be an innovator. Case in point, ed williams, a college drop out who is a creator of blogger. Com, the First Program making it easy to blog, and twitter. Today with his net worth estimated at 3 billion, he says he wasnt sure that either project would take off. You can look back and say yes, i knew the world needed it, but its really a process of discovery, i think. Its like youre exploring, and youre sort of going by your gut. Reporter isaacson says the genius of people like williams is that they see things in ways that the rest of us cant. They take all the Little Things out of the Building Blocks already createed and they do something creative and imaginative. Reporter you might be surpriseed to learn the identity of one of the pioneers isaacson credits with first imagining what a computer might do. A woman born in the early 19th century. Lovelace with some 1850s, and died at age 36. Same age as her father was when her father died. Her father was the romantic poet, lord byron. Reporter lord byrons daughter was a mathmetician intrigued by the use of punch cards like these recently introduceed to program automatic. She thought similar devices could also be used for complex math problems, and much more. Could even compose music. They could, of course, do calculations with numbers. And so by envisioning how those cards could be used on a computer, she says the computer could be general purpose. It doesnt just have to be for numbers. Reporter but it wasnt until almost a century later in the usa during world war ii that the first modern multipurpose computers were built for defence purposes. As to who deserves credit. Its a wonderful wrestling match over who invented the xuerlt. Reporter the contenders are in mountain view, california. Theres this replica of a computer, designed by John Vincent Atanasoff at Iowa State University in the early 1940s. It barely worked. So isaacson says this one deserves top billing. This is eniac. Its in the smithsonian. It was finished in 1945 for the u. S. War department by a team at the university of pennsylvania. It worked for many years, and they can reprogram it to do everything from atom bomb tests to missile trajectory. But later, atanasoff would create, and copy some of his technology. So there are lawsuits. Did anybody end up with the patent and the title of who invented the first computer . No. We dont want the courts to make that decision. Secondly, the courts couldnt make that decision. Nobody got a patent saying you own the rights to the computer. Reporter isaacson says it was big news on Election Night in 1952 reporter good evening, Walter Cronkite cbc introduced a univac computer. We hope to get you a prediction baseed on statistical principles of the results of this election as it happens. And it actually worked. Cronkite was worried. So he doesnt say anything. He says we dont have a projection yet, but it just shows that a computer can be used for really practical things. Reporter and did you ever wonder why we say our computer has a bug in it . The programming for mach 1 at harvard in a big early computer. And one night it wasnt working lrl, and they opened it up, and there was a moth in one of the switches. So thats why we call it debugging. Reporter you might not expect walterize ide otherwise otherwise to b Walter Isaacson to be a tech junkie. A former managing editor of time since 2003, isaacson has been the ceo of the aspen institute, a policy study organization. Hes also earned a reputation as an expert on genius. After writing best sellers on the likes of jobs, Albert Einstein and beverag benjamin franklin. Such a Long Distance from benjamin franklin, for example. I think if brifrj min franklin came up today, hed fire up a website, and look at the iphone and figure out how to make an app. Meefs invenltive. He was inventive. I see that today. Reporter so past books focused on individual achievements. Isaacson has come to realize that most history isnt made that way. The dirty world sceet is those of us who write biographies know we distort history a little bit and try to make it feel like one guy sitting there in the garage created everything. And i really wanted to remedy that with this book to say its not just the lone inventer. Its the collaboration and teamwork that makes innovation. Reporter and building on the work of others. The very first and primitive personal xaurt was made by ed roberts in albuquerque. He doesnt have a monitor or a keyboard. It appearss on electronics magazine. And the world is never the same. Young people say i want to be involved. Reporter and it would take young teens like paul allen and bill gates who started microsoft, and steve wasniac and steve jobs who founded apple to make the computer computer a useful tool. In fact, Walter Isaacson says that in the end, the digital revolution is really a cavalcade of dreamers and doers. No vision without execution. Its hallucination. Youve got to have teams of people for great visionaries. And also people to get them done. You combine the imagination of humans with the processings power of machines. Thats where the real innovation comes. Charles coming up, on the range with Michael Keaton. But next, making beautiful music. ,, Insurance Companies are spending millions of dollars trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. Well heres the truth 46 will save lives. It will save money too. Im bob pack, and im fighting for prop 46 because i lost my two children to preventable medical errors and i dont want anyone else to lose theirs. The three provisions in 46 will reduce medical errors and protect patients. Save money and save lives. Yes on 46. Charles music has a way of bringing people of all Ages Together as Steve Hartman now explains. Reporter inside the Judson Manor Retirement Community in ohio, they have a hundred Senior Citizen residents. Im 66 years old. Im sfen 77. Im 93. And this is maris a. Im 24. Thats right. 24. Just turned 24. Marisa lives in a one bedroom apartment at judson manor. I live here with my peeps, my neighbors, and im not looking forward to graduating. You like retirement so much . Yes. Its literally the best way to live. Reporter when shes not mingling withler girlfriends at the retirement community, marisa is a student at the Cleveland Institute of music. It was here she heard about a deal they were offering at judson. Free rent in exchange for monthly performances. Its in a minor. It was a deal too good to pass up. Marisa is now fully immersed in goldon years. And not the only student here. Two others took the deal the young people do a lot for us. They bring us alive. Its just nice to have the young people here. Theyve become good friends. Reporter and choose the really amazing thing. At some point it stops being about the concerts. Not only for the seniors, but the students too. I love your top. Its so cute. It became more of a family than a job. Reporter family . Yeah. Theyre all my grandparents. Reporter they didnt set this up for your benefit . No. Yet i think i get the better end of the deal. I really do. Reporter in america, we segregate ourselves as much by the date on our drivers license as the color of our skin, but by reaching out across the ages, the young and old of judson manor discovered a joy that they hope spreads to other retirement communities. I think its a beautiful program. I think it should be done all over. Yes, exactly right. Exactly right. Reporter and theres a good note to end on. [ applause ] michael. Charles coming up, actor Michael Keaton. From batman. Man [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. But they were some pretty good moves. And the best move of all . Having the right partner at my side. Its so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side. Consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Go long. Insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Sir, were going to need you on the runway. vo theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. vo theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms. vo theraflu. Serious power. Best foods and holiday leftovers become irresistibly creamy turkey casserole. Real delicious best foods. Bring out the best foods. Bring out the best. Real delicious best foods. Where does mommy keep the extra diapers . Hey. Cowards. Holy mackerel. Charles Michael Keaton can play any role, including a stay at home dad in the 1983 movie, mr. Mom. At 63, he has a new film coming out, his first in quite a while. Lee cowan in the sunday profile. We were going to come chat. You know, these are hardcore fans. Oh, my gosh, where has he been. Did you get that . Yeah, where is he. Reporter where actor Michael Keaton has been is remote. Its close to nothing. Except perhaps heaven. For the past 25 years, keaton has made this montana landscape his home. Big sky country. With big thunderstorms to match. Its his home on the range, where the deer and thean and th antelope do play. Far from hollywood . Yeah. Is that the point . Im not one of those i hate hollywood guys. I dont know how to not live like this. Reporter this is where hes been geographically, but the question is where has Michael Keaton been professionally . Its showtime. Reporter it has been a long time since he played the bad mannered zombie in beetlejuice. Dont you hate it when that happens. Oh, sorry. Reporter and there have been countless super hero films since keaton first donned the black cape. Im batman. Where ive been is just being a person in life. Its not complicated. Certainly michael people werent knocking on my door. Some were knocking, and i was saying its not really what i topt do. Reporter did you lose interest . Yeah, i got bored of hearing myself. No, no, no. Drunk. Reporter but his latest role in the film birdman has him more engaged than ever, and has some people even talking oscar. Im sorry, im sorry. Yeah. Its not true. Reporter keaton plays wigain thompson, an actor who became a household name for playing the birdman, the comic book super hero. But the role haunts the rest of his career. We find him has hes trying to mount a comeback on broadway to prove to his fans that hes more than just an actor in a crazy costume. It was not autobiographical, but close. Its weird. Its amazing. Reporter the part wasnt written for or about keaton. Its just an odd coincidence. I probably relate less to this character than anybody ive ever done. Thats the irony. Reporter the voice in your head i have every voice in my head. Reporter he is, truth be told, michael douglas, keatons really name. Born the youngest of seven in pittsburgh in 1991. As the youngest were you cracking jokes . I was pretty funny. And i must have liked the attention. Its weird. Because i dont really like attention. But i must have liked the attention. Reporter his first exposure to show business came in the neighborhood. Its a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood. Its a Beautiful Day reporter mr. Rogers as a prop man at pbs station qed. But fred rogers was neighborly enough to give the strugglinganthor a chance in front of the camera too. Michael douglas only changed his name to keaton because there were two other Michael Douglases that were a little more famous at the time. Hi. Reporter it wasnt the name that got him noticed. It was the frenetic energy. In the film night shift. I eliminate garbage, edible paper. Reporter he had a certain charm that made him perfect for playing likeable wise guys. Dad . Yeah. This is cold, and the melted down. Reporter when mr. Mom came around, casting keaton seemed a no brainer. He was witty, dry and especially funny. Its 7 00 in the morning. Reporter but keaton could also do drama, whether as a coke addict in clean and sober. Come on. Reporter or a sociopath in pacific heights. Half of all victims are killed with their own handgun. No. I like to look i like to run. It feels good. So very fertile. Reporter somewhere in that fertile mind of his, he found what director tim burton was looking for in the character of beetlejuice. Toi. This day, i couldnt tell you what his idea was exactly. Walk and talk. Its about and it keeps getting funnier every time i see it that was free range. You could never say you could never say my character wouldnt do that. Reporter but when it came time to play the caped crusader, even some of his fans balked. The good natured funny man, they feared would never be dark enough to play a bat. It never occured to me it would be an issue one way or the other. Reporter you were playing batman . Yes. Its funny. Now i dig it. I love it. Its awesome. Reporter but there were petitions. People were writing Warner Brothers saying you cant let mr. Mom play batman . Yes. Reporter batman went on to be one of the biggest grossing films of the decade. Batman returns was too. But when it came time for batman three, keaton bowed out. Even after being offered a reported 15 million to do it. What was it you didnt like . It sucked. Reporter there you go. It was awful. Reporter keaton has never disappeared. Hes been pretty much just as busy as hes wanted to be. He couldnt resist doing the voice of barbies ken in toy story 3. Ask. And not even batman has been as demanding as birdman. Thats why 20 years ago i said no. Reporter all the film is shot in long unbroken takes. It plays more like a theatre production than it was the most intense thing ill ever do. I cant imagine doing anything this hard. Reporter tushs out, Michael Keaton hasnt been hiding from anything out here in montana. Perhaps hes just been waiting for the role as fascinating as his views. I dont believe in luck. You make luck or you take opportunities and turn it into something. But good fortune, wow, unbelievable. Discover card, how can i help you. Charles now a story about a mystery man whose origins go way, way back. Chip reid has been doing some digging. Reporter 18 years ago, two young men made news when they found the skull on the bank of the clump xwra river near kennewick, washington. Suspecting foul play, they called the police who thought the skull looked very old. They were right. Anthropologists excavated and found the full skeleton and determined it had been carefully buried along the river 9,000 years ago. It was certainly americas most important skeleton. It is an xegzal rare discovery. It does not happen but once in a lifetime. Doug owsley is the smithsonians top physical anthropologist. He sued the federal government and local Indian Tribes for the right to study kennewick man. We know what happened 10,000 years ago. Reporter the tribe believes the bones are ancestral and should be reburied, but the courts found the remains had little genetic connection to present day indians and ruleed in favor of science. After years of work, owsley and a team of scientists are publishing kennewick mans biography. Most people are not aware of the wealth of information that come from human remains. Reporter 57 and muscular. Intelligence was comparable to present day humans. I truly consider him an ambassador from an ancient time period and enlightening us to what his life was like. Reporter in a word, his life was brutal. He has half a dozen fractured ribs. The ribs on the right side failed to mend properly. Reporter add to that shoulder injury, two skull fractures, and worse. When he was 15 to 20 years old, someone threw a spear at him, and the spearhead lodged permanently in his hip. I think this man there was an intent to kill him. Owsley says kennewick man is causing scientists to rethink how humans first came to this continent. Reporter the traditional theor sepeople came from foot across the bearing strait on a land bridge. This suggests that people also came by water. Thats right. You have people coming in thousands of years earlier than we thought. They had boats. Boats come into use earlier. He is from the east asian coastal populations. Reporter a life on the water is skintd with kennewick mans diet as determined by the chemical signature discovered in his bones. We find that this man is heavily dependent on seals for his diet. This man is a lean mammal hunter. Reporter his teeth were worn down and showed no sign of cavities. His enormously strong right arm suggested he hunted with a spear. He is so fast he fractured off the back portion. One of owsleys challenges was recreating what kennewick man actually looked like. How do you get this from that . The skull is the tempalate for the outline and for the different structures for the eyes and the nose. Reporter sculptures took months to build this based on the shape of the skull, and archival photos from asian coastal people. Native americans are still fighting for the right to bury kennewick man, but the federal government is holding on to his remains until the dispute between the tribes and the scientists can be resolved. I feel the skeleton is just begining to talk to us, and we need to carry on that conversation. Reporter a conversation with a man who hasnt spoken a word in 9,000 years. Charles next on judging a book by his cover. Charles heres a look at the week ahead on the sunday morning calendar. On monday, the library of Congress Holds an open house in its main reading room. Librarians will introduce the rooms resources and collections to the public. Tuesday kicks off screamfest in los angeles. Its described as the nations largest and longest running horror film festival. Wednesday is National Fossil day, featuring National Park service and Museum Events designed to promote awareness and stewardship of fossils. On thursday, apcell rumored to be unveiling a new device, possibly an updated verg of its ipad. Friday is the 25th anniversary of the San Francisco bay area earthquake that killed 63 people and damaged part of the bay bridge. On saturday, the motorcycle peter fonda rode in the 1969 film easy rider goes up for auction. Its estimated small, one i million dollars. Charles make a note. Sunday morning is now also on the smithsonian channel. Last weekends clash between bill maher and Actor Ben Affleck about the nature of islam provoked commentary, including these thoughts from religious scholar. The last week has seen the tense conversation about religion in this country turn into an allout shouting match. What is this the solution is more muslims. Talked about radical islam. No, he said its the only religion where the mafia will kill you. Whats a greater threat to civilization. Christian extremism, jewish extremism or muslim xreechlism . Reporter if were going to have an honest religion, lets understand what were talking about whether we say the word religion. Religion is not just about the things you believe or the rituals you follow. Its about who you are as a human being. How you see the world and hur place in it. Thats why religion is intimately connected to the other thing that is make up a persons sense of self. Like ethnicity, culture, nationality, gender, sexual orientation. Consider this. 70 of americans describe themselves as christians. Does that mean 70 of americans go to church on sunday or 70 read the bible regularly or 70 of americans blgd tell you much about jesus christ other than he was born in a manger and dieed on a cross . Of course not. For a great many of this 70 , the phrase, i am christian is synonymous with i am american. In other words, its a statement of identity as much as it is a statement of belief. No wonder that two people of the same faith can look at the same verse of scripture and come up with two radically different interpretations of it. Barely two centuries ago, slave owners and abolitionists in the United States not only used the same bible to argue conflicting viewpoints they often used the same verse us. Thats why it doesnt make any sense to say christians believe this or muslims believe that. S with all religions, christianity and islam come in varieties. So its irrational to make generalizations of any community of faith. Its just plain bigotry to condemn those communities of faith, be they christian or muslim based on the actions of a few. Weve been talking about the death of god dpr a long time now, and yet religion is argueably a greater force in the world today than in centuries. A recent survey Shows Americans want more religion in public life, not less. So these passionate conversations weve been having about religion are not gk to end any time soon. We would all be better off if we turned down the volume on the discussion, and learned a little bit more not just about each others religion, but religion itself. Reporter the opinions. And now Bob Schieffer on tions ahead on face the na good morning, well start with the latest on the overnight news of another ebola case confirmed in dallas, and well talk to former secretary of defense, leon panetta. Charles Bob Schieffer, thank you. Well be watching. And next week on sunday morning. Im going to get in trouble for telling the story, but im going to tell it anyway. What are you going to do suspend me . Charles batter up. Good times and bad times of pete rose. Charles we leave you this sunday morning at a pond in north carolina. See you later alligator. Charles im charles osgood, please join us next sunday morning. Until then, ill see you on the radio. Captioning made possible by johnson johnson, where quality products for the American Family have been a tradition for generations captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org ,, its a fresh approach on education superintendent of public instruction Tom Torlaksons blueprint for great schools. Torlaksons blueprint outlines how investing in our schools will reduce class sizes, bring back music and art, and provide a wellrounded education. And torlaksons plan calls for more parental involvement. Spending decisions about our education dollars should be made by parents and teachers, not by politicians. Tell Tom Torlakson to keep fighting for a plan that invests in our public schools. Im mark kelly. There s a lot to talk about in our ne hour. anne teases. good morning is there a lot of news to get to. The big issue is the san jose mayoral race. And well have both candidates live in the studio. And the big issue is public safety. And the question about how the city is going to pay for it, and the pensions. President obama swept through town doing a little fundraising. Our political insiders weighed in. And