Story. Many people dont have any. I think its the same all the time. Reporter and time has never been more precious for theresa curtis. Which is why she and her family are going on an all expense paid vacation. You call it a time out from cancer . A time out from cancer because thats exactly what it is. Beautiful here. Reporter a journey to remember ahead on sunday morning. Osgood Bradley Cooper is an actor with a number of successful films to his credit and to hear some industry observers tell it a possible Academy Award nomination in his future. Er is ree that altschul catches up with him in his own hometown. Its a night youll never forget. Reporter the hangover made Bradley Cooper one of hollywoods biggest stars. Now his role in the new film Silver Linings play book has critics talking about an oscar. You look nice. Reporter not that anyone from philly is surprised. I just saw your movie. It was great. Did you like it . I loved it. Oh good. Reporter what does it do for you coming here . Tranquility. Reporter going whom Bradley Cooper ahead on sunday morning. Osgood most of us think a family portrait and a still life are two totally different art forms. Bill geist will set us straight. Reporter you may be getting a lot of christmas cards about now. This was exactly last year. Reporter but youve probably never received one from a family quite like this. Here comes the family now. Smile smile osgood Placido Domingo is a singer who hardly ever sits still for long. Not with his schedule of performances. Tracy smith got him to take some time out. Reporter he may be the finest tenor the world has ever known. But Placido Domingo says he wasnt always the best businessman. We did it because we loved to be together, you know . We didnt have any royalties. Reporter no royaltys . No royalties. We dont say for anything so they dont give us anything. Reporter still hes more than made up for it. Ahead on sunday morning plas dedomingo home for the holidays. Thats good. Thats good. Osgood mo rocca has the story of a christmas storys broadway debut. Steve hartman tracks down a secret santa. Bill flanagan and David Edelstein share their movie picks and first the headlines of this sunday morning. Funeral and Memorial Services for the 26 children and adults killed by a gunman at the Sandy Hook Elementary School are coming to an end. Services for two of the first graders were held yesterday in connecticut. Another Memorial Service was held in utah. Officials say newtown connecticut, is being inundated with gifts from around the world. In fact they say the donations including some 60,000 teddy bears are simply too much for the town to handle theyre suggesting gifts for Organization Serving needy children elsewhere. Hawaiians are paying their last respects to senator Daniel Inouye in honolulu. Funeral services will be held later today. The president and First Lady Michelle Obama now vacationing in hawaii are expected to attend. In japt, the ruling Muslim Brotherhood government says a proposed islamistbacked constitution has been approved by voters. In new delhi police used Water Cannons for a second day to break up protests over the gang rape and beating of a 23yearold woman on a bus last weekend. The protesters are demanding the Death Penalty for all six suspects arrested by police. Shopper track, which monitors store sales nationwide, is cutting its holiday buying forecast after first projecting sales would rise 3. 3 from last year it now says sales will be up but about 2. 5 . It attributes the slowdown to Superstorm Sandy and the newtown shooting saying they have tempered buyer enthusiasm. Now todays weather cold in the plains and much of the nyse, the chance of showers. The southeast will have temperatures on the chilly side. The west more stormy weather. With odds of a White Christmas look good in the Northern Tier of the nation. The south and parts of the west can expect rain. Ahead okay on your mark get set. Osgood say cheese. Osgood in this season of giving we take note of a very special group that gives a gift that is needed this time of the year. Our sunday morning cover story is reported now by seth doane. Its beautiful here reporter any vacation is a fleeting break from routine. A chance to relax and make memories. But for the Curtis Family visiting this 3,000 acre dude ranch in Southern Arizona time together seemed more precious than ever. How is it to get out of that routine that youre in. Very nice very nice. Undescribeable. I am trying to stay reporter for four days earlier this month the curtiss left reality behind back in woodburn kentucky. You always think you have a lot of time you always think you would do something later. Reporter at least until 18 months ago. Thats when theresa mother to sally and levi and wife to High School Sweetheart jeff received a terminal diagnosis. I have stage 4 Breast Cancer that has metastasizeed to the bones. The biggest thing is my spine with there is at least one lesion in every vertebrae. Reporter chemo was devastating. She has her hair back now which at least makes her look healthy. But cancer is always a part of their lives. Its always there and i know its always on the kids mind always on jeffs mind. But it never goes away. Its like the big elephant in the room but at least we talk about it. Reporter theresas doctor Vanderbilt Medical Center oncologist Vandana Abramson understands families like the curtises face more than just medical problems. The hardest part is that they have to be preparing for life without one parent in the future. So theres a lot going on with these families. A lot outside of the realm of what most normal families have to deal with. Theres a lot of anxiety for the entire family. Reporter so along with the morphine and hydrocodone dr. Abramson called for something you cant find in any pharmacy. I prescribed this trip as part of her treatment because i thought she and her family needed a chance to get away not think about her cancer diagnosis not think about anything else. I think they needed something special. Reporter which is where the jack and Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation come in. John albert is its founder. You ate timeout from cancer . We call it a timeout from cancer. Thats what it is. Reporter a distraction. An opportunity to live. To live life. Reporter alberts nonprofit raises money to send families like the curtises on an all expense paid vacation. Reporter who qualifies for a trip like this. A young mom or dad with limited life and they have children under 18. Thats it. Any cancer any Economic Group socioEconomic Group. These are families low are who are facing the imnt in loss of their mom or dad. Reporter john albert know this is kind of loss all too well. He created the foundation in 2006 with his wife jill as she was dying from metastatic Breast Cancer. The cruelest aspect of latestage cancer is the emotion. Jill was afraid our kids would forget her. Reporter forget her . They were seven and nine when she was diagnosed. That haves why i started the foundation. To give other young moms and dads the comfort the relief, the joy to know that they can get back the gift of memories to their children. Reporter the Foundation Works with oncologists to identify families to go on these trips. It relies on contributions from the public along with donations from Airlines Hotel chains and cruiselines to host families struggling with endstage cancer. The foundation does it wall a fulltime staff of three. How is this not just saddest job in the world . It really is absolutely the opposite. I get to deal with laughter and smiles and unbelievable joy everyday. Thank you. Reporter families typically choose between a few vacation options. Whoa reporter the curtises opted for a stay at the White Stallion ranch just outside tucson. Its the farthest west tenyearold sally has ever traveled a world away from the stresses at home. What does this do to a family tv diagnosis like this . For it to be as serious as it is. It really brings things down kind of. Like youre always thinking about something. Somethings happening. But now we really arent thinking about anything. laughs reporter what do you mean . We arent thinking about the cancer at all were just thinking about having fun what are we going to do next . Are we going to ride horses . All that. Reporter they road as often as they could. Theresa watched as her family learned to herd cattle sad but also serene. Its a calmness. I dont know if i can describe it. Its just where you just take a deep breath and just relax and just dont really think about anything at all. Reporter the jack and jill latestage Cancer Foundation aims not just to provide that elusive break but also a trip so memorable they call it a wow. Two years ago we thought we had 20 30 40 years together. Now we dont know. Reporter bill franciss wife sondra is living with brain cancer so on their vacation to denver this the foundation gave them v. I. P. Treatment at a broncos game. Complete with the a meetandgreet with n. F. L. Star dallas sparks. And the run of a Westin Hotel Suite that the obama family calls home during the 2008 democratic convention. Were special this weekend you know . Were out and people are taking care of us and helping us and were going to enjoy the weekend but were taking with us forever reporter an escape captured forever me photographs just some of the thousands filling the photo albums of more than 600 families and counting. Hi reporter Elizabeth Giordano and daughters look back at their photos all the time. Her husband died last year at 42. What do you think the trip meant to todd . Oh everything. Reporter todd lived for just six months after his diagnosis and elizabeth says a vacation seemed hard to justify. But at sesame place in philadelphia all seemed just right. The girls enjoyed it; we enjoyed it as a family. And that was the last time we were a family on the trip because we literally flew home and two hours after we landed i was taking todd to the hospital and he didnt come home. Reporter at the White Stallion ranch jeff curtis tried not to think about why the family was there. Does this trip really make a difference . It doesnt change anything. Yes it does. If just for ten minutes they forget about mom being sick its worth it. Reporter they posed before a rainbow that appeared in the arizona sky and for all the comfort it provided theresa felt Something Else too . The word grateful keeps coming to my mind. 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Osgood and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. December 23 1823. twas the night before the night before christmas that the sentinel visited a visit from st. Nicholas then just newly minted. I dont have to tell you you know it for sure a visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Clark moore. Someone read it to you and youve read it to yours. A few of us now sleep with kir chief or cap the poem to the times always seemed to adapt. And though doubts about authorship sometimes raise a clatter, to most of us any such doubts hardly matter. Now, dasher now franer and vic seine, on comet on donner and bit zen. To the top of the porch,tothe top of the wall now dash away dash away dash away all every year at this time we go straight to this work. For an adult with children its a highly prized pirg. So spring once again to your young give a whittle and read them this tale of a sleigh like a missile. Let them hear as o as you put out the light happy christmas to all and to all good night. 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Would you look at that reporter ralphies dad obsessive over a leg lamp he won in a contest. It reminds me of the fourth of july reporter a pack of dogs makes off with christmas dinner. And santa is anything but jolly. What do you want for christmas, little boy . Reporter its like the seinfeld of christmas movies. What do you mean by that . Well, in some ways its the commitment to the mundane. Reporter for 41yearold Peter Billingsley looks familiar thats because he played ralphie. Its the simple Little Things that drive you crazy around christmas. Trying to get your little brother to eat, picking a tree trying to cook a turkey all those things. Reporter now billingsley is one of the producers of a christmas story the broadway musical. Get there on the double reporter 12yearold johnny rabb plays ralphie. Ralphie too the rescue reporter tenyearold zach ballard is randys brother randy, the one who memorably pigs out on mashed potatoes. Good thats my piggy. Did you ever think of asking a stunt man to do that for you . No i never want a stunt man to do that. Reporter you do your own stunts . Yeah. Reporter whats your motivation . Um, what do you mean by motivation . I dont even know what im asking. Whatever youre doing its great. This family favorite was a series of stories written by radio commentator gene shepherd in of all places,play bog magazine. The stories became a book which then became a movie. Rose fudge reporter only i did isnt fudge i said the word. The big one. Reporter the number one that people say to you when you come up is thats my family. Or you were me. Or thats my mom, that was my dad. It seems like that midwest area is relate to believe everyone. In the country. It feels like everyones street. Reporter the movie wasnt a Box Office Hit but then cable t. V. Turned it into one of the greatest comeback stories ever told. Were going to get you exactly what you want for christmas reporter a 24hour marathon watched by almost 50 million last year has been playing since 1997 making it the yule log of christmas movies. When you come to visit where do you stay . I stay in the third the house. Reporter fans of the film include brian jones. In 2004 he found on ebay the Cleveland House used as ralphies home. He bought it sight unseen. He did not tell his wife. How long did it take for your wife to forgive you . The day i opened it. We had a line down the block four or five people wide. Reporter today there are still lines. Does anybody know who played the mom . Reporter open to the public since 2006 the home is a shrine to ralphie. Hello folks welcome to the christmas story museum. Reporter theres a leg lamp in the window and a kitchen sink visitors can hide under just like randy did. Whats the matter . What are you crying . Reporter do any fullsize people get tlurnd. Ive gone in there. Would you like ittosee it . Reporter of course im 63 about 200 pounds. Reporter this is what you call a superfan. Works perfectly. Reporter jones helps pay for the house by selling what else leg lamps. These are for the kids or if you want one on your desk, there even a night light. A night light. Reporter of course, the lamp lamps made it into the broadway musical. Along within a showstopping tap dance number. And if the young cast of the musical is any indication christmas story still has legs. Who had sign the movie before you did the musical. Its a classic. Reporter is there anyone here who wasnt a fan of the movies . Im jewish. laughter reporter what do you think the missage of this story is . Well it all comes down to like love. Reporter thats very nice. Zach . Its a heartwarming story. Its just the best christmas story ever. Osgood oh please call me monkey. The actually its Placido Domingo next. And later got it osgood back home with actor Bradley Cooper. u ÷ u u reporter there are Opera Singers and then there is Placido Domingo. Even to nonopera fans he is a force of nature. Threat pop stars have their microphones, he doesnt need those gadgets. On stage domingo is invincible. But real life is trickier for a man whose legacy is his voice. There r there certain things you have to avoid . How do you protect it . How do you take care of it . The worst thing is to fly in a plane and you find then your neighbor has a cold. Reporter what do you do . You move. I change planes. I cannot be in a long flight five six hours ten 12, i have to change, i have to move seats. No hard feelings but its my own responsibility. Reporter opera at this level, anyway is as much physical and musical. And, like any star athlete domingo has his own pregame routine. The voice shines more and the day before a performance you are wiped. I sleep as much as possible. Its not that i am completely quiet but thats something i respect. I have respected it all my life. Reporter clearly it works. Maybe its the difference. Maybe i know how to sing but i dont know how to speak. It makes me tired. Reporter if speaking makes him tired nothing else seems to Placido Domingo has been on a kind of nonstop tour for most of the past five decades. Hes played just about every opera house from turin to tokyo. 3,600 performances singing. Conducting reveling in the loving rigor that great music demands. When i conduct i sweat. Reporter its very physical. Its physical. I have to change in intermission all my clothes completely. Reporter because theyre sweated through . Yes completely. Reporter you might say the passion for performance is in his blood. Placido domingo was born in sfin a musical family who settled in mexico. His father owned a small musical theater company. His mother was an accomplished opera singer. Young placido trained for a career as a pianist until the day his mother heard him sing. One day i was sitting at the piano, i was singing a mexican song and i hit a certain phrase and i see my mother crying. I said whats the matter . She said that was a beautiful song. And so then i i kind of understood that i could be a singer. Reporter could he ever reporter this year marks Placido Domingos 45th at new yorks metropolitan opera. But hes never been satisfied with just one genre. Hes come out with a new pop album featuring duets including one with his son placido jr. Reporter but for all of his success on his own hes probably best known for some as part of a heavyweight trio with jose car rares are a and luciano pavarotti, the three tenors. They were only supposed to do this once during the world cup soccer final in 1990. But the act caught fire. Did you have any idea starting off when the three of you got together how huge it would be . No. No. Never, never. Friends ive had a few reporter the producers made a fortune on that first concert. The tenors not so much. We didnt have any royalties. Reporter no royaltys . No royalties. They sold over ten million tickets. We dont say for anything so they dont give us anything. I like to be in America Everything free in america for a small fee in america reporter we did it because we love vd to be together you know . Also we loved so much the performance. Reporter so the love of soccer compensated for the lack of royaltys . Absolutely we were very happy first of all, we were very happy to sing together. Reporter for the encore they made a much better deal. Domingo says that reports of a feud between the tenors were untrue. We were friendly rivals. Reporter friendly rivals . Frenemys, do you know that term . Frenemys . That i dont hear. I say friendly rivals. The rivalry was created by the press and by the agents because we got along very well. Reporter pavarottis death in 2007 hit especially hard. It was sad because you lose a person that you have admired and loved and also you see the reality of life. Youre born you live and you die. Reporter it was hardedly first time hed known loss. No one can know just how many people died today when that monster earthquake ripped through at least three mexican states. Reporter in 1985 an earthquake hit mexico city burying some of his family members in the cubled wreckage. Domingo canceled his schedule and rushed to the scene. They are doing everything they can and i realize it has to be very slow in order to save lives but i wish that they could do something faster. Reporter his parents were unhurt but four other relatives including a young child died in the ruins. After six days we find them. So that was a horrible horrible thing. I you dont know what you want for christmas yet . I want a dog but my mom wont let me. Reporter these days this is Placido Domingos favorite audience. Power rangers. Reporter you know power rangers. Yes, of course reporter his grandchildren have prompted interesting career moves. Im impressed you know these career moves. I have to do something for them. I did Beverly Hills chihuahua. Say hello to my little friends. Yup thats him. Please call me monkey. I did it reporter he was also the voice of an evil wizard in a recent dora the explorer. His grand kids approval is important. It is work and on this day in the choice of a christmas tree. Which one do you like . Reporter this time of year domingos only command performance is with his family. Its good. As much as i work the whole year those holidays we should be together. Reporter no working on christmas . Thats lovely. After the holiday it is maestro will hit the road with at least 80 performances already on the books for 2013. But Placido Domingo who turns 72 in a few weeks is well aware that every career no matter how stellar has a final curtain. So i feel strong still but you never know. Reporter do you wonder when the day will come that it will start to fade . Im not scared. I have done such a long career, i will just go down on my knees and just thank god for giving me so much. cheers and applause osgood yes, Staten Island there is a santa claus. Coming up. [ female announcer ] with depression Simple Pleasures can simply hurt. The sadness, anxiety the loss of interest. The aches and pains and fatigue. Depression hurts. Cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. Tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. Antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. Cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. People taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. Taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. Severe liver problems some fatal, were reported. 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Reporter even though she its Christmas Janet told us she had no interest in celebrating christmas this year. I dont have anything left. Reporter she hated they were selling Christmas Trees in her neighborhood. Thats how down some people are on Staten Island, new york and neighboring new jersey where Hurricane Sandy hit hardest. Which is exactly why hes here. Im secret san. A. Reporter his real name i cant tell you. His face i cant show you. All i can say is hes a wealthy businessman from missouri who ever december goes to cities and towns in america he thinks beneath need him most. Merry christmas sweetie. Reporter he then gives away hundred dollar bills. About a hundred thousand dollars worth of hundred dollar bills. All to random strangers he finds at Thrift Stores laundromats and soup kitchens. Reporter what are you going to do with that . Buy food. Reporter a lot of these people have never even seen a hundred dollar bill yet alone possess one yet clearly the joy they feel goes deeper than the dollar amount. Dont lose hope because everythings going to be okay. Reporter carol hefty had five feet of water in her house. Reporter youre going to rebuild. Reporter she could certainly use the money but says the kindness this represents matters more. This will not be spent. Reporter why not . What because im going to frame it and put it in my house. The theres wonderful people. Reporter hope thats what he doles out and perhaps no one needed that gift more than the woman he just so happened to stumble upon in this salvation army. We lost our whole house. You lost your whole house . Reporter he gave Janice Kennedy 300 and a brand new attitude. Youre going to have a nice christmas. Thank you reporter it just changed everything and i thought yeah i will get the tree. I got happy. For some reason i had a smile on my face all night reporter looks like christmas is back on the calendar. To be. Reporter tis the season for holiday movies woman training is about more than muscle. Its about inner strength. So i push myself. Thats why i serve in the United States coast guard. I train with the best, a team that shares my drive and commitment. We collect intelligence, guard our shores against drug smugglers and keep our waterways safe. Because our nation expects more. If you expect more, maybe you were born ready. Find out at gocoastguard. Com. Osgood just two days left till christmas. tis the season for holiday movie going. But when it comes to this years yuletide offerings our critic is not ha particularly jolly man. Reporter the person who said if you cant Say Something nice dont say anything at all was clearly not a movie critic or he or she would have lived the life of a mute. Believe me i take no joy this Holiday Season in bringing you tidings of great annoyance. I know who you are. Youre jean valjean. Reporter i so wanted to love the musical les miserables. Trouble started in the first oh 30 seconds. At the end of the day shes been nothing but trouble reporter director tom cooper has the songs perform the songs live instead of lip sync to prerecorded tracks and he wont let you forget it follow to the letter your artillery this will shame you until you die reporter the camera rushes in on actors faces gets in real close. It must have been hard for them to keep their composeier as they went flat or sharp or in the case of Russell Crowe into an uncanny fog of atonalty. Reporter do not forget me reporter but i admire crowes all of their gumption the movie would be a monster hit and many will weep at the plight of hugh jack mans jean valjean as he labors to shake crowes unshakable lawman javert while forced to sing an octave too high. Reporter strength to journey on reporter meanwhile an emaciated anne hathaway. Reporter so different from the this hell im living reporter performs the unforgettable i dream add dream in one take, in closeup looking like a plucked chicken and earns every award that will surely be hurled at her skinny head. Revolution is also in the air in Quentin Tarantinos western djago unchanged in which freed slave jamie foxx and a Bounty Hunter take out slave holders. Carnage is rarely so morally uncomplicated, which is enough reason to stay away. If you please sir theres a jack reacher here to see you. Reporter jack reacher features more rapeous killings and an opening sniper massacre thats the wrong scene at the wrong time. Though really, what would be the right time . Remember, you wanted this. Reporter novelist lee childs violent 65 vigilante hero is embodied by dinky tom cruise on tippy toes with his chest pumped up smirking at the knowledge that hes catnip to the ladies. Thats a pretty impressive Response Time fellas. Reporter in more ways than one, its a reach. I lie about my age, stock . Okay. Okay . Okay. Reporter jud apatows mildly amusing selfpity fest this is 40 i need you to look at something can we keep a small shred of mystery. Reporter features his real life wife and kids and enough shock recognition to power tits running time. Give me back my piece. Reporter the overstylize Anna Karenina is deadly. The hobbit is punishment for loving the lord of the rings trilogy. Whats in your bag precious . Reporter but you know whats a surprise . The Barbra Streisand seth rogan mother son comedy the guilt trip. Mom get off the freeway mom its wan sure but the leads have a fragile and tenuous intimacy. Good luck sweetheart thank you maam nice to meet you reporter that captures those attractionrepulsion aspects of kids and parents and its nice to spend time with you babs. How long are we supposed to look at it . Ten minutes. Seems disrespectful for any less. Wholl know . Reporter things to remember lincoln and life of pi. Theyre essential. The psycho comedy Silver Linings play book is a triumph of emotional disequilibrium. Skyfall and argo are still kicking around. There ive said something nice. The rest is silence. Osgood ahead group portraits. So as you can see, geicos Customer Satisfaction is at 97 . Mmmm tasty. And cut very good. People are always asking me how we make these geico adverts. So were taking you behind the scenes. This coffee cup, for example is computer animated. Its not real. Geicos Customer Satisfaction is quite real though. This computeranimated coffee tastes dreadful. Geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Someone get me a latte will ya please . Osgood a still life is defined as small inanimate on the objects used as subjects for a picture. Thats a definition applicable a family bill geist went to visit. Reporter amidst the annual blizzard of christmas cards those from this family stand out. This was last year. Reporter at first glance they look normal enough the happy family aglow with holiday spirit. But there is Something Different about these cards about this family and yes about suzanne heinze, who creates them. Here is suzannes husband. Mary margaret, their perpetually eightyearold daughter. Most people when they send out their holiday cards they have a picture of their puppy or their puppy and their baby and i kind of felt left out. Reporter so 13 years ago she sent her first family christmas card. The whole reason really why i started this was like a pressure to conform. Reporter oh. Because i was getting older. Still didnt have a ring on my finger and i just kept getting a lot of pressure. Reporter from her mom, for example. She just kind of point blank said susie when you just going to get married . When are you just going to pick somebody . And i just blew up. I was like mom its not like i can go out and buy a family reporter or could she. I was walking past a retail liquidation outlet and i saw an entire family in the window and i thought reporter it just hit you. Lightbulb reporter for the record her mother ann recalls no such nagging. Oh she tells me i did that. I think she told me but i dont remember it. Reporter today modern families come in all shapes, colors and sizes. But hers seems to be the First Nuclear family unit with members made of the same substance as boat hulls and car bod dis. Is he aloof . Hes quite aloof. Reporter chauncey, what do you think about this talk about you being aloof and unresponsive . Strong silent type. Reporter marely margaret hasnt changed a bit. Shes an angel. Complete angel. Reporter suzannes cards are angstly awaited. What will it be this christmas . Can i put this up here . Reporter this year she traveled from her denver home to Steamboat Springs colorado. With her boyfriend and assistant mannequin wrangler. Do you need bigger boots is . Theyre a little small. Reporter kids grow not this one oh god hes breaking apart. Hold him together, baby. Look at you go reporter taking a good family photograph is never easy. The things we do for christmas. Reporter with a fiberglass family some assembly is required its always been a royal pain in the neck. Reporter why do you go to so much trouble . Its part of the fun. Everybody needs to move left quite a bit. Its like a challenge to me to see if i can do it and every year the stakes get higher. Reporter perplexed passersby wondered what in the world she was doing. Theyre creepy. A little creepy. On your mark get set reporter finally after more than three hours everything seemed set. Whoa whoa laughter reporter undaunted by the fall suzanne forged ahead for another try at another location. Just strap Mary Margaret on really good. Reporter christmas just days away. Ready . Ready . dogs barking whoa whoa reporter wow reporter smile, smile looks like the family has outdone themselves yet again. Osgood next, the oscar buzz around Bradley Cooper. [ male announcer ] campbells green bean casserole. Its amazing what soup can do check out my new treadmill app. Pretty sweet, huh . Cute. But dont you have any apps on your phone that can make your life easier . Who do you think i am, quicken loans . At quicken loans, well provide you with myql mobile. This amazingly useful app allows you to take pictures of your mortgage documents using an iphone or android smart phone. So you can easily send them to us. One more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. Ooh, lala we got in all kinds of trouble last night and we cant find our friend and if you want to kill us go ahead because i dont even care anymore. Reporter stu what are you talking about . Osgood thats broadly cooper in the smash hit 2009 movie the hangover. Cooper has starred in some of the Biggest Box Office winners and with his latest roll some say he might be up for an oscar. Serena altschul was the sunday profile. Reporter Bradley Cooper is one of hollywoods biggest stars. There were night it is four of us will never forget. Reporter hes played the leader of the wolf pack in the hangover movies. Mike tyson . Reporter the jerk in wedding crashers. Are you okay . Well claire, my heads buried in a toilet. What do you think . Why dont you do the math . Reporter and the heartthrob in hes just not that into you. I have to actively stop my brain from thinking about you. Reporter if thats thats not enough, he just finished his reign as people magazines sexiest man alive. What did your mother say in she was excited. That was like wow im glad. Reporter now its his role in the new film Silver Linings play book that has people talking. The worlds hard enough as it is guys. Its bleep ing hard enough as it is. Cant somebody say hey lets be positive . Lets have a good ending to the story . Reporter its made cooper a serious oscar contender after being nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award. Bradley cooper, Silver Linings play book. Reporter and a golden globe. Bradley cooper Silver Linings play book. Reporter cooper plays a bipolar former teacher. Shes making homemade dad be nice reporter who was released from a Mental Hospital and returns them his parents house in philadelphia with a plan to put his life back together. He finds a Kindred Spirit in Jennifer Lawrences character who has emotional issues of her own. It curls and falls reporter were you scared to take the start yeah, i was scared. I couldnt see myself in the role and i think i was wrong because id never felt more comfortable then as pat. Look, i dont think youre crazy. Yes you reporter just like his character in the film. Coming home to philadelphia is comforting for Bradley Cooper. Hi how are you . Sweet ride oh my god we met him at the highway theater near his boyhood home in the philly suburb of jenk kintown where much to his surprise the only movie playing is his. Oh how convenient. Reporter how cool is that . What does it mean to be a philly guy . Fill phillys a very idiosyncratic city. I have a tremendous amount of pride because my familys roots are embedded in philly. I spent a lot of time when i was growing up spending the days with my mother and she was a big shopper. Reporter his italian mother gloria stayed home with bradley and his sister holly. His irish father charles was a stockbroker. After work he would teach his son about movies. It was the elephant man and apocalypse now taxi driver raging bull. Reporter you were young. I was like 11, 12, i was excited because i saw how much he was excited and i idolized him. Reporter when you sat in this theater as a kid did you think at all id love to be an actor . Hundreds of times. It was a joke for people around me that this little kid was saying how he was going to be an actor. But i did. When i saw the elephant man i knew it. It crystalized. I said this is what im going to do with my life. I never swayd from. That. Reporter soon he was rehearsing in his backyard. So you would go up over i would come out of my house and walk which my mother hated because she thought it was so dangerous. Reporter get off the tracks yup. And movies like platoon or stand by me because that was all about train tracks when i was a kid. So me and my friends would pretend we were in stand by me. Reporter but before he would become an actor, there was one thing cooper knew he had to do. I definitely put a lot of pressure on myself knowing that my father basically is an example of the american dream. So i had to go to college. Reporter he applied to Georgetown University but didnt get in. It was a major thing and it was a major bonding between me and my father actually. The one thing that he always really instilled in me was a belief in me. Reporter he tried again and was accepted a year later studying english and french. He graduated with honors. Then, in 1999 while studying acting in new york he landed a small part on sex and the city. I need some smokes. Do you want any . We were shooting on 14th street with Sarah Jessica parker and i loved it. Then i got to go back to school the next day. Reporter back to reality. Yeah. Reporter cooper worked steadily in movies and t. V. Including a part on alias. But while his career grew so did hollywoods temptations like drugs and alcohol. Just watching myself getting near to the abyss and i thought oh wow im going to sabotage my whole life. I didnt recognize myself. I was lost. Reporter friends helped get him back on track just in time for 2005s wedding crashers. That made him a star but cooper would cement his place on hollywoods alist with 2009s blockbuster comedy the hangover. I think its safe to say our luck has officially turned around guys. We are back baby the level of the success the hangover had was phenomenal. In no way did i ever think it would do that. Ever. Reporter the hangover and its sequel made more than a billion dollars worldwide. Part three comes out next may. The truth is i couldnt believe i got cast in the hangover so i sort of gave up trying to rationalize my life a long time ago. Just the fact that im here with you on this show that i grew up watching with my grandparents charles kuralt, thats surreal. Reporter it seems all of Bradley Coopers success has given him a new perspective. The older you get you start to appreciate where you came from. When i was living here i thought i didnt feel the way i do now. Now i love it, i dont want to let it go. Reporter so he doesnt. The first kiss with a girl i was in love with was right here. At the noble train station. My grandfathers buick regal right there. Reporter hes 37 now and known as one of the nicest guys in hollywood. He comes home wherever he can. Welcome back nice to see you. Reporter whats thank you whats your name . Elaine. Reporter just watched the hangover for 159 time last night. Thanks hey, hows it going reporter Hometown Food is always on his mind so cooper visits his favorite spot. Can you smell that . Reporter yes, i do. Then heads down to the pond where his family used to feed the ducks after supper. We had dinner together no matter what. Every night my mother would cook reporter sacred times. Uhhuh. Reporter a tradition that would carry on wherever he came home. Until his father his hero died last year after a long illness. My dad and i see this tree right here . Reporter yes. We planted this tree. Reporter youre kidding . It was literally this big. Reporter a little sapling. And look at it now all these years after his dad taught him to believe in himself Silver Linings play book has shown another side to Bradley Cooper and hollywood clearly likes what it sees. Thanks bro thank you reporter you are a philly boy through and through. I mean its like crazy. Still, he always remembers the town where he first fell in love with the silver screen. Have a good weekend. Whose birthday is it, your birthday . Thank you. Reporter do you feel lucky . No question im beyond lucky. Im dreaming of a White Christmas osgood tis the season for music. Just ahead. Just like the ones i used to know osgood this christmas perhaps even more than most, we have some music that offers more solace than most. Now suggestions from mtv bill plan gahn. Ill be home for christmas reporter theres music for every occasion and emotion. Music is everywhere. We use it to worship and celebrate. But we need music most when we have to tran send loss and sorrow. At those times music allows us to carry fwhaurdz might otherwise be too much to bear. Theres a new book out by allen light about Leonard Cohens hallelujah. Composing hallelujah. Reporter a song which over the last 25 years has become a secular hymn. Cohens initial intention was w that song was not religious. In fact its a pretty worldweary lyric. But you know what . That doesnt really matter. As hallelujah has been sung by different voices and put to different uses it has become the anthem its audience needed it to be. Your faith is strong but you needed proof you saw her bathing on the roof her beauty in the moonlight went through ya reporter paul simon says that hallelujah took the place that bridge over troubled water took as our secular spiritual. And friends just cant be found like a bridge over troubled water. Reporter isnt it remarkable that at the end of the 60s in a troubled place and troubled time simon wrote bridge over troubled water the beatles wrote let it be. Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone reporter and james taylor wrote fire and rain. All songs of endurance and perseverance that used the vocabulary of the spiritual without religious reference. Ive seen fire and ive seen rain seen sunny days thought theyd never end reporter some healing socks come straight from scripture. The reggae classic rivers of babylon by the med loanians is based on psalm 137 the babylonian exile. By the rivers of babylon where we sat down then on ward in my journey reporter bob dylans every grain of sand assures us that god loves us even when we do not love ourselves. That that al separation is possible because humans are infinitely redeemable. Tura loora reporter at our house we listen to bing crosby during the holidays and watch going my way. It reminds us of our grandparents and grandparents and i suppose someday it will remind our kids of us. Its funny how many of those holiday songs are about separation and longing for reunion. You dont notice it when youre a child but as you get older you appreciate the bittersweetness in those christmas songs. These are the shortest days of the year and for some people they are the hardest. But starting now little by little the days get longer. The light is already coming back. And my all your christmases be be white osgood ahead nancy jiles on the gift that matters most. Osgood christmas is about children, of course. The children we once were and the children we love now. Its also about growing up. With some thoughts on that heres nancy giles. Reporter tis is season and giving and getting is in high gear and hopefully that purchasing will stimulate the economy and that will be a good thing. At a certain point since most of us are all grown up dedoo we need presents regardless of whether we were naughty or nice . Can any new stuff be better than the time you got a give a show projector or a bikele with training wheels and fringe on the handlebars . Or an easy bake oven with all the devils food cake mix pacts id need to live in my room forever those were the best christmases, when santa coming down the chimney in the middle of the night with toys and surprises was a real thing. That was wonderful. Then came the bitter no one understands me years when i truly felt i gave much better than i got from my family at christmas. Why the fenl p. J. S that were the same size as my younger sister who was six inches shorter than me . Whats with the wrinkle reduction skin care system . And who thought of the blank book that id seen at barnes noble under the lastminute Stocking Stuffer signs. I got that from two different siblings the same year. Do you hear the . I was so selfish selfinvolved not one ounce of gratitude. Forget about that silent night holy night jazz or kwanzaa orhan a traditions or even yearend reflection. Christmas then was all about what i got or in my case didnt get. Thankfully somewhere along the line i got it. I dont need anything. And the reminders are everywhere. Hurricane sandy. Seeing neighbors ravaged homes washed away and neighbors sifting through debris for treasured family pictures. Then last week the shooting in newtown, as the news broke it felt like the entire country stopped for a moment and got its priorities straight. What do we need . Its simple loved ones good health a place to call home food clothing a job and some wonderful memories. When i used to ask my mom what she wanted for christmas year after year shed give the same weary response love and peace. And ill roll my eyes and say okay, but what can i get you from macys . Now i get it. Love and peace and giving to people in need. Thats all i want for christmas from now on. I love math but two ipads means two data plans . Thats crazy. Maybe not. With at t mobile share, adding an ipad is just 10 a month. But honestly, mom and dads love is all i really need. We should keep these for us. We should keep these. What . 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Schieffer morning charles. The president of the National RifleAssociation David keene and ben affleck on separate topics but both on face the nation. Osgood Bob Schieffer in washington. They say a third of us in this country are traveling someplace this weekend and that twothirds are staying someplace and that place if only in our dreams is home. plays theres no place like home ill be home for christmas you can plan on me please have snow and mistletoe and presents by the tree Christmas Eve will find me where the love lights gleams ill be home for christmas if only in my dreams if only in my dreams how does it feel to try smooth delicious hersheys chocolate with 30 less fat . Hersheys Simple Pleasures chocolate. 30 less fat, 100 delicious. music playing music playing music playing music playing music playing music playing [ elizabeth ] i like to drink orange juice or have lemon in my water. Eat tomato sauce on my spaghetti. The acidic levels in some foods can cause acid erosion. 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