story. and then, steve hartman takes us to venezuela for a mother and son story that can be measured not only in miles but also in centuries. >> as a boy growing up in new jersey -- >> this is my mom. reporter: david good used to tell people his mom died in a car crash. it wasn't true, but as far as he was concerned, at least that story wasn't embarrassing. >> what's my mom doing? oh, she's naked in the jungle eating tarantulas. >> reporter: it's a mother and son reunion you have to see to believe. just ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: the buck stops here was favorite saying of president harry s. truman but for much of the recent financial crisis it could be applied to timothy geithner. today he speaks to our anthony mason. >> reporter: as treasury secretary during the financial crisis, he became a lightning rod. did you ever sort of look at it as a no-win job? >> i was pretty confident it was a no-win job. >> reporter: in his first television interview since leaving the treasury, timothy geithner talks about the bailout, the banks, and their bonuses. >> this is going to kill us. i used some other words too. >> reporter: later -- on "sunday morning." >> osgood: seth rogen is a common actor known for his outrageous sense of humor but he can speak on more weighty matters when the situation requires, as tracy smith has discovered. >> reporter: seth rogen is building a comedy empire one crazy gag at a time. so it took something very close to hishart to get him to a buttoned-up senate committee room. >> thank you very much for having me, mr. chairman. >> reporter: do you think that testimony made a difference? >> i don't know. it might have. >> reporter: ahead on "sunday morning," seth rogen. now he's getting serious. >> osgood: thees have is a story from faith salie focusing not so much on the eyes themselves as to what tops them off. >> reporter: whether plucking, waxing, threading, dyeing or drawing, americans spend millions a year on their brows. why are eyebrows so important? >> i think it's your whole expression, and if they don't look good, i feel that it changes the whole package of who you are. >> reporter: ahead on "sunday morning," something that catches the eye. >> osgood: bill geist has a belated chat about the birds and the bees with his son willie. james brown tells us all about the l.a. clippers new interim ceo richard parsons. some food for thought on this mother's day and more. but first the headlines for this sunday morning, the 11th of may, 2014. a controversial vote pushed in easternu crane today. people in two regions are being asked if they want to break away from the country. there is still no word on the whereabouts of more than 270 school girls abducted by islamic extremists in northern nigeria. teams from the u.s., britain and france have joined nigerian forces looking for the girls. the search resumes today for the third person on board a hot air balloon that crashed in virginia. witnesses say it hit power lines and burst into flames. the bodies of two victims have been recovered. both were senior staffers with the women's basketball program at the university of richmond in virginia. strong storms have been sweeping through the midwest this weekend. at least one tornado touched down near oric, missouri. homes were damaged but no injuries are reported. uncle sam haunck the first openy football player was picked in the nfl draft. he was the southeastern conference player of the year. they held the annual song contest in copenhagen last night. ♪ an audience of 180 million people in 45 countries saw austrian drag queen concheata worse take top honors for "rise like a phoenix." more on the weather this mother's day. dangerous storms are threatening the nation's heartland. they're also giving the west another dose of winter, dumping up to eight inches of snow on denver. in the week ahead, calmer in the plains, but stormy in the northeast and the southeast. next -- mother's day 2014. and later -- by a hair. >> the eye bras are basically the voice over the shoulder commenting on everything else that's going,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, everywhere i look, i see a country ready to move forward... and a congress standing in the way. their budgets are late; jobs bills are stalled... and special interests run rampant. as an economics teacher at stanford, i know education means good jobs. so here's my plan: i'd start teaching computer coding in public schools right away. open doors for women in science and technology. and prepare young people for middle class manufacturing jobs. i'm ro khanna and i approve this message, because change starts with us. ♪ we are family hey hey sing it to me. ♪ ♪ i got all my sisters and me >> osgood: "we are family" was a hit song for sister sledge in 1979. american pop music has changed a lot since then and so has the american family. our mother's day cover story is reported now by rita braver. >> they taste so good. reporter: mothers have been feeding her family cheerios for generations. so when general mills ran this ad last year -- >> is it true that cheerios is good heart? is that true? >> reporter: -- it seemed like a winning formula. a timeless cereal and the universal theme -- love. >> we saw this as one way to tell the cheerios store knee a very new, fresh, and interesting way. >> reporter: fresh and interesting, in part, of course, because the mother is white. the father is african-american. and the little girl, well, she's just adorable. the chief marketing officer at general mills says the overwhelming response to the ad was positive. but there was hate-filled backlash on the internet, much of it overtly racist. you got so many negative comments on the website that, as i understand it, you had to actually take down the comments section on the website. >> we did. the team -- the cheerios team took down the comments section because we thought there were some hurtful things, some things that weren't positive. >> reporter: but that didn't stop general mills from running this follow-up ad. >> you know how a family has daddy and mommy -- >> reporter: from the biggest advertising -- on the biggest advertising day of all -- super bowl sunday. >> you're going to have a baby brother. >> and? a puppy. >> reporter: did you ever think of backing down because there was a certain segment of society that was not accepting of this? >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> reporter: these are scenes from american family life that general mills commissioned norman rockwell to paint in 1938. but households today are looking less and less like these images from the last century. >> the difference between family lives in 1965, let's say, and today is enormous. >> reporter: johns hopkins' sociology professor andrew churnen has been writing about the american family for over three decades. >> we've just lived through a huge period of social change, is you know what? there's no reason to think it's at its end. i think it's still going on. >> reporter: in fact, the change is unprecedented. marriage recently hit an all-time low. but to those still tying the knot, more than 15% of new marriages are interracial or interethnic. as for raising kids, one-parent homes are on the rise. and the number of same-sex couples with children, though small, is the highest ever recorded. >> ah, dinnertime. in the 1950s, the mess edge was there's only one kind of family that's okay. and that's the married familia la "leave it to beaver." >> why do you say that? ell, they don't have to be smart. they don't have to get jobs or anything. all they have to do is get married. (laughter). >> reporter: more than half a century later, we have "modern family." ♪ >> we're just a new type of family. they don't have the right vocabulary for us yet. they need one of us to be the mom. >> why does it have to be me? do i wear a dress? >> well -- that's a night shirt. it's kind of fattening. so we go from a situation where there was only one right way to have a family. that somebody get married, get married young, stay married, have lots of kids to diverse pathways. >> we met 24 years ago. reporter: as soon as you met, as soon as you first really talked to each other, you felt a spark. >> yes. reporter: when these two men have a long history together. but they're hardly traditional. their asheville, north carolina, household is a true modern family. when did you, in your minds, become a couple that wanted to have a family together? >> within the first month, because we both come from six, so family is inside of us. >> reporter: moore and perez who were married in vermont last year still remember how excited and nervous they were when they adopted their first child in 2001. >> and in walks this lady with this little bundle with a shock of black hair sticking out of it, and all of the waiting and all the jumping were out of the and athere's maria, our oldest. >> reporter: two more children, beatrice and oliver, have joined the family too. what do you think of these three grandchildren that they adopted? >> i think cream of the crop. reporter: even in a home where there's no conventional mother, there is a mom who plays a big role. 92-year-old eleanor moore loves to visit the family. there was a time when two men might not have been able to adopt children and raise them in a family. >> there was a time there wasn't even a word for it, but it doesn't alter the fact that when two people love each other enough to spend their entire lives together, then i don't see that that makes it a big deal of difference. >> reporter: but much of america still doesn't accept same-sex marriage. it's legal in 17 states and washingtonwashington, d.c., andt ruling this past friday in arkansas could clear the way for same-sex marriage there. but recall even interracial couples on tv can draw a negative response. i guess the question is, are there two americas these days? >> there are certainly still two camps out there, a group that accept the changes and a group who don't. >> will you help with spanish. everybody could just change on a dime. it takes time. it takes people stepping forward and saying, we're no different than anybody else. this is a family. this is what we vision our family to be. we aren't two americas. we're one america going through a rebirth of who we can be for the future. >> reporter: but whatever the future holds, certain basics seem here to stay. >> what has stayed the same are the traditional values and desires to bring a family together, to nurture kids, to make them develop and be the people -- everything they can be. that whatnot changed. >> reporter: and on this mother's day, moms still play a central role in doing just that. >> all or many blessings. men. reporter: what does it mean to be a good mother? >> oh, my. i guess just love them. >> amen. no matter what. agreed. osgood: coming up -- ♪ and the dust gets high you can't even see the sky ♪ >> osgood: dust to dust. he's a very light sleeper. oh, the camry's safe and has a smooth, comfortable ride. oh, the camry's perfect. and you're in luck. it's toyota time. so it's a great time for a great deal. 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"the new york times" described a half light similar to the light cast by the sun in a partial eclipse. other dust storms would follow during those years, leading the government to take emergency measures to protect the land and encourage more sustainable farming. fast forward to today with an ongoing drought in the south central states, released this past week a new report on climate change warning of higher temperatures and more droughts to come. all of which is leading many to wonder whether the dust bowl is really so far away and so long ago after all. >> can i touch it? yeah. really? osgood: just ahead -- anthony. it's silky. >> osgood: a very high-brow report. >> this portion of "sunday morning" is sponsored by -- ♪ ♪ all the goodness of milk, all the deliciousness of hershey's syrup. bentaste-free andr, dissolves completely. and unlike other fibers, you'll only know you're taking fiber by the way good digestive health makes you look& and feel. benefiber. clearly healthy. oops >> osgood: the eyes have it has nothing to do with a voice vote. it's all about these things here. here's faith salie. >> and lebron goes hard to finish. >> reporter: on the court, anthony davis is hard to overlook. a 6'10" force, already an all-star for the new orleans, louisiana pelicans in just his second year in the nba. but for basketball fans, there's something else, him that's equally hard to miss. >> it's character. that's what everybody wants. >> reporter: something that really catches the eye. can i touch it? >> yeah. reporter: really? oh, anthony, it's silky. >> it is. reporter: well done. so silky smooth that his brow started a sensation in 2012 at the university of kentucky where davis was the most popular player on the court and off. >> i went to kentucky and everybody had like the brow nose down to the brow, making it popular. and ever since then, it just blew up. it had its own identity. what's up, everybody? it's your boy, most famous piece of eye hair in the world. >> reporter: i got to say -- and i'm sorry if this makes you feel uncomfortable, up close, it is very sexy. (laughter) i never knew a unibrow could look so good. >> yeah, it's its own person. so i make sure it looks good, you know? >> reporter: davis isn't the only person making sure his eyebrows look good. whether plucking, waxing, threading, dyeing, or drawing, americans spend millions a year on their brows. >> i'm going to be trimming a little bit. >> reporter: robin coaseio is a makeup artist who shaped brows for 25 years. why are eye buts so important? >> they frame the face. i think it's your whole expression, and if they don't look good, i feel that it changes the whole package of who you are. >> reporter: perfecting the brow has been an obsession for centuries. 2,000 years ago, egyptians used a black powder to paint dark thick brows. for greeks and romans, the unibrow was in style. if a woman wasn't blessed with one, she would apply animal fur above her eyes. in the middle ages, the brow was banished. >> queen elizabeth i sai set the style. they would shave their forehead and shave the eyebrow as well. you had to look like an egg. >> reporter: the egg look got browbeaten. by the 20th century, hollywood was dictating the style. the radically tweezed brows of marlina dietrich to the diva arches of lauren bacall and march lynn monroe -- marilyn monroe. to sophia loren. each and every eyebrow air penciled in. and then in the 1980s brooke shields set a new standard sporting a fuller, more natural look. >> the only thing that comes between me and my calvins, nothing. >> reporter: no matter how carefully we groom our brows, we really can't control them. >> most of what happens with the eyebrows, i would say is unconscious, non-deliberate, unintentional. >> reporter: mary ann la france is a psychology professor at yale who studies facial expressions. >> it's a way of establishing a contract, a social connection. right now you just -- it did a little up and down really fast because you're attending. you are listening. are you not? >> reporter: i am! i promise, yes. what are some of the emotions that our eyebrows can express? >> one that really matters is sadness. and that's the expression when the inner corners of the eyebrows come up. another is anger when the whole brow comes down and in. surprise, of course, is strongly suggested by both brows raised up and high in full force. >> reporter: while eyebrows can broadcast our sincere feelings, la france says that they're also a built-in lie detector. people can fakes a smile, but eyebrows tend to reveal what someone is really thinking. >> the eyebrows are basically the voice over the shoulder commenting on everything else that's going on on the face. it's the signal in the background that says, take this seriously. take this as a joke. >> reporter: and one m.i.t. study quleelded a brow-raising -- yielded a brow-raising revelation. it's easier to recognize people by their eyebrows than their eyes. take this photo of president richard nixon. people had an easier time identifying him in a photo where his eyes were removed than when they saw him without his brows. >> even famous people. you remove their brows. you photo shop out the brows, and people don't know who someone is who when the brow is there, they know, of course, it's richard nixon. >> reporter: whether thick or thin, arched or full, or even connected, it's clear that eyebrows tell the world who we are. and for some of us, that's worth, well, a lot. >> i never thought about cutting anymore. it's who i am. >> reporter: could someone offer you a million dollars? >> no. reporter: no? no. reporter: $2 million? no. i don't think i'll ever cut it. >> osgood: next -- like father, like son. and later -- a real-life mother and child reunion. i am definitely happy. >> osgood: like father, like son. bill geist and his son willie have a lot in common. they're both on television. they're both accustomed to discussing difficult subjects. but it turns out there's one responsibility of fatherhood bill is only just now getting around to. >> dad? hi, willie. . can you take me to basketball practice now? >> okay. ♪ >> reporter: in the tumble of day-to-day child-rearing, parents often forget to stop and have those monumental talks on the big issues like sex and beer. i know i did. with fathers and sons, it's doubly bad, because males don't talk much to begin with. in fact, my son willie and i just got around to it in a new book. how odd! >> we probably should have had this talk 30 years ago, but we never discussed the birds and the bees. is it too late for us? >> well, willie, looking at your beautiful family, i think you figured some stuff out. >> reporter: still, questions remain. and who better to answer them than dr. phil? i always thought it would come naturally, that you'd be walking through the woods and sit down on a rock and have the birds and bees talk with your son but we never went through the woods. >> let's just assume you're sitting on that rock right now, little willie's sitting in front of you. he's 12 years old. you're going to have the talk, so look at willie right now and let's have the birds and bees talk with just a few of your closest friends watching. >> son -- yeah. -- i think it's time we had a little talk about the birds and the bees. >> okay. (laughter) >> well, birds try to attract each other with colorful wings and so on, and bees, the drones mate with the queen and then they die. >> so let me get this straight. after you have sex, you die? is that what you're telling me? >> if you're a bee. having heard that conversation, i think it's maybe best that you skip that. (laughter) that you walk past that rock, because i think would you have scared the hell out of him, bill. (laughter) why do you think you never had that conversation? >> it was awkward and i'm a chicken. and i also was afraid that he'd contradict me. kids these days know more about sex than we do. >> my dad would try to bring up the topic, and then i would quickly transition to the yankees. >> i would say to willie, so what do you know about sex, son? >> what? he'd say what? and i'd say, how about that jeter? he's swinging a hot bat. >> there you go. and then he'd ask me if we had any pretzels. >> we spent a lot of time together. so i don't think we had to have those big ceremonial talks a lot of fathers and sons had. my dad led well by example. >> did either one of you have a point in your life where you realized you really hadn't conversed about i in the big water shedd events? >> well, i think part of it was when my dad announced recently that he has parkinson's disease, it was something i didn't know about for about ten years that he had it. i think that was the moment we looked at each other and said, hey, maybe we ought to talk about things more than we did. >> willie, my question for you is, now that you have children, lucy and george, do you think you will do it differently? >> i think definitely. i'll have more open dialogue. i'm not saying i'm having the birds and the bees talk, because that is why god made google. (laughter) look it up, kids. >> now, bill, let me ask you this. as a grandfather now, i'm finding out that i'm doing a lot of parenting things better the second time around than i did the first time around. how are you doing with willie's children? i mean, have you had any of these talks with george or anything? >> it's interesting. george started asking me about heaven. >> when my dad told me about that, i said, you just had with my 4-year-old son a deeper conversation than you and i ever had in our lives. and he's 4 talking about the after-life. >> i think young kids are sometimes hard to talk to 'em -- your own kirds sometimes are hard to talk to 'em. >> my mother used to make pancakes. she said you always throw the first ones away because then the skillets just right. maybe that's it for kids. you throw willie to the side. (laughter) you go with george where he left off. >> see how that works out. i like that. i'm the first pancake. right to the trash. >> that's right. (laughter) >> reporter: if willie is a pancake, i'm entering him in the pillsbury bakeoff. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: the buck stops here describes the job of secretary of the treasury to a "t" as former secretary timothy geithner knows. anthony mason sat him down this past week with some questions and answers. >> i timothy geithner -- reporter: when timothy geithner was offered the position of treasury secretary in 2008, he understood it would not win him any popularity contests. did you ever sort of look at it as a no-win job? >> oh, i was pretty confident it was a no-win job. >> reporter: geithner would help navigate the worst financial crisis since the great depression. to some, he became a hero who saved the economy. to others, the villain to rewarded the banks. i'm curious. what would you say your worst day in the financial crisis was? >> i had a lot of bad days, yeah. i had a lot of terrifying days. >> reporter: for six years. how would you describe this institution? >> it's a national treasure. reporter: first as head of the new york federal reserve, then as treasury secretary. geithner would confront a series of rolling crises, the rescue of bear stearns, the collapse of lehman brothers, a spreading panic in the stock market. did you feel like you were the kid at the dike plugging your finger in? >> i went to see paul roker on saturday of the bear stearns weekend and i walked into his apartment because i wanted to tell him where we were. and he said, how's your finger? i didn't know what he was talking about, but he was referring -- >> reporter: he was referring to your finger in the dike. in his first television interview since leaving the treasury last year, geithner acknowledged he'd not always made his case well. >> there were a lot of communications issues. >> reporter: issues is a nice way of put it. what would you call them? >> how about failures. reporter: in his new memoir "stress test," he tries to set the record straight. >> i think a lot of people still feel that the banks should have been made to pay in some way. >> yeah. reporter: either in terms of restructuring, less executive compensation, in some cases some people should have gone to jail. >> i think everybody feels that way. >> reporter: do you feel that way? >> i think there's a -- it's a totally understandable perception, but it's a -- >> reporter: you feel that way. i feel it's a complicated thing. there was a terrible amount of abuse and fraud and bad behavior and damaging and dumb things that people did in this crisis. and i think americans definitely deserved a stronger enforcement response. >> reporter: i want to know what you think. you saw this up close better than anybody. does it surprise you nobody went to jail? >> it doesn't surprise me no one went to jail. it doesn't surprise me. >> reporter: what may have been immoral or unethical, he says, was not illegal. geithner's often been accused of being too cozy with wall street, a myth even developed that he once worked for goldman sachs. >> and i practiced law and you've been in banking. >> i never actually been in banking. i've only been in public service a long time ago. actually never never. >> investment banking. never investment banking. reporter: in fact, a career public servant, he'd taken only a single economics class at dartmouth. what were you thinking you were going to be when you grew up? >> i didn't know what i was going to be. >> reporter: treasury secretary wasn't on the list. >> no. reporter: geithner, whose father worked for the ford foundation and u.s. aid, lived in india, africa, and thailand. eager to follow his father's path in public service, he joined the treasury department where in the 19s, he'd -- '90s, he monitored crisis overseas. >> how fragile things are, how hard it is once confidence breaks to put it back together again, how devastating the damage is. >> reporter: so as head of the new york fed, when lehman brothers was on the brink of collapse in september 2008, he understood what was at stake. >> we brought the leaders of wall street together in a room right there. >> reporter: right. and we basically kept them there for three days. >> reporter: working with then treasury secretary henry paulson, geithner tried to find a buyer for lehman, but failed. when you realized you couldn't save lehman, what were you thinking? >> oh, i thought it was going to be terrible. and, of course, it was terrible. it was worse than we imagined, though. >> reporter: the next day, the stock market plunged 500 points. >> there is a perception, i know, on wall street that you found a way to save bear stearns. you found a way to save aig. >> yeah. reporter: you could have found a way to save lehman. >> yeah. reporter: it was lehman case, there was no buyer. >> the end we worked very, very hard to try to make it happen. >> reporter: that fall when president-elect obama approached geithner about succeeding paulson as treasury secretary, his wife, carol, who he met at dartmouth, strongly opposed it. >> i really had a sense of dread about that. >> reporter: was it worse than you thought it would be? >> it was worse than i could have imagined it would be. >> reporter: what was the hardest part? >> having a person that you really love and care about being beaten up and criticized when they are doing their best to solve a problem that had no easy answers. >> you gave lame excuse us then. i believe you're giving lame excuses now. >> reporter: geithner would become a lightning rod and carp the $7 million rescue package he helped push through to save the banks would take much of the heat. banks have paid back the loans with interest, but the cheap money they were lent allowed them to reap billions in profits as homeowners struggled. these banks were still taking huge bonuses. >> oh, it was terrible. it was outrageous and killed us. >> reporter: people are rightly outraged about these particular bonuses. >> did you get on the phone and say, guys, i'm trying to help you survive and you're killing me? >> i said exactly that. this is going to kill us. i used some other words too. >> reporter: but geithner argues that even though it appeared the arsonists were being rewarded, the banking system had to be secured. you're basically saying homeowners were collateral damage. >> no. i'm saying in a financial panic, there is enormous collateral damage. they're deeply unfair and tragic in those context. so the first imperative is to make sure you make the system stable, not because you care about the banks or you want to protect them from their mistakes but because if you let the lights go out, the system will collapse around them. >> reporter: after a year at home in larchmont, new york, writing his book, last month, geithner, now 52, started a new job as president of the private equity firm war bubburg pincus. people could look at it and say, well, he's going to wall street. >> yeah, i thought about that. i was really worried about that perception. so i did not go and did not want to go, was not willing to go to an ins sthugs we had regulated or that we had rescued for exactly that reason. >> reporter: his role in the worst financial crisis since the great depression will be debated for decades. history will judge timothy geithner, and he knows it. do you worry about defending your legacy? >> i don't think there's any hope for my legacy. (laughter) >> reporter: you don't think there's any hope of defending your legacy? >> i don't know. it's just not something you can worry about. i feel very confident that we made some very good choices and the best choices we could in the circumstances at the time, and i'm at peace with those decisions even though i carry with me just all the burdens of the disappointment and the scars of the damage. >> osgood: coming up -- reunions that whole experience, lindsey's experience, changed our whole lives. just changed our outlook on everything. 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'd never know. reporter: you'd never know looking at pictures of david goode's mother she anything other than a typical new jersey housewife. >> we'd go to the beach at jersey shore. >> reporter: in fact, david himself never really noticed. >> sunglasses. she's just hanging. >> reporter: did you recognize that she was different than other people's moms? >> when she left. before that, i don't remember being cognizant of the fact that she was this zeam zonian jungle -- am zonian jungle woman. she was just mom. >> reporter: his mother gro grew up in southern venezuela. this is home to some of the most primitive and isolated tribes people on the planet. >> i studied them over a 12-year period. >> reporter: his father is a professor at new jersey city university. >> take notes. reporter: while doing his field work back in the '70s and '80s, he lived in the village, basically became part of it, fell in love with the people in general, and one person in particular. >> yeah, that was a little unexpected. >> reporter: they were betrothed and eventually moved to the states. he says that was an unimaginable journey for her. >> some guy starts up a jeep and she starts hiding in the bushes. she thought it was an animal? >> reporter: she thought the jeep was an animal? >> yeah, the headlights, the roar. then it started moving. but she never saw a wheel, how a wheel works or anything like that. >> it was like she went through a time machine or through a portal and went through whole different cosmos and every artifact, every sociofact of this culture, of this realm was absolutely foreign to her, and i can imagine just what that was like for her. >> reporter: she didn't know the jungle ever ended. >> nope. she thought the whole world was the amazon jungle. she thought she was going to another village. >> reporter: considering all that, she seemed to adapt pretty well to this alternate universe. they had three children and she was an excellent mom by all accounts. and yet after six years during a visit back to the jungle to see her family, she told ken she just couldn't go back to america. and she didn't. how could she leave her kids? >> ah, the eternal question, i've had more comments from particularly women. >> reporter: who can't understand. >> no. reporter: how do you look at it? >> i look at it as the intolerable situation for her. she said people weren't meant to live this way. >> reporter: what did she mean? just the idea of in an impersonal world, walking by strangers all the time, a lot of them weren't so friendly. that was not within their cognition that that's a way to live. >> reporter: ken, the professor, was able to intellectualize it. the two youngest were able to move past it. but david, who was 5 at the time, never got over his mom's leaving. >> i internalized it as abandonment as a kid, yeah, and felt like i wasn't good enough. >> reporter: in school when kids asked you, where's your mom? what would you say? >> that my mom had died in a car crash. that was the most effective response because then they stopped asking questions. >> reporter: and why didn't you want people to ask questions? >> because all my friends' moms drove them to soccer practice, picked them up. what's my mom doing? oh, she's naiced in a jungle -- naked in a jungle eating tarantulas. >> reporter: i guess that's understandable when you put it that way. >> yeah, exactly. reporter: so david pretended his mother never existed. >> i just wanted to be a typical american kid. >> reporter: it wasn't always easy. for example, he remembers going on a class field trip to the museum of natural history in new york city. >> it was just bad luck. reporter: their guide just happened to take them to the section on south american tribes. >> of all the sections we could be visiting -- >> reporter: just happened to show them an exhibit on the jeana manna which happened to include a picture of his mom that his dad took. >> i think i ran around this way and hid in a dark conner until the rest -- corner until the rest of the group caught up. imagine every day, every single day, are people going to find out? are people going to find out? it gets to you after a while. >> reporter: eventually, that nagging worry involved into a total hatred for his mother, until one day while in college he came across an old book his dad published in 1991. it's about his mom. and just finally getting to know her flipped a switch. >> the floodgates opened, complete 180. i went from absolutely detecting my heritage to being completely proud of it, and i knew this day was going to come. i knew i had to embark on this mission, on this quest to reunite with my mom. >> reporter: it was a quest much easier dreamt than done. the nearest landing strip is still three days away from the village. and there are no roads to it. only rivers with rapids you have to go up. and after all that, there was still no guarantee he'd even find her. they can be knowmatic. she could have been long gone. but fortunately for david, she was here. ready and willing to pick up right where they left off. 20 years earlier. >> i put my hand on her shoulder, and i was so nervous and i couldn't talk to her. she couldn't talk to me. and then all of a sudden, just remembering that comforting feeling of having a mother, and that's when i just -- i broke down and lost it. >> reporter: they both lost it. mother and son spent the next few weeks hunting for crabs, gathering plant annes and remnessing about the old days back in new jersey. one thing david didn't do was ask her why she left, says he didn't need to. he said over the course of that visit, which was in 2011, and the second visit last year, he's come to understand perfectly why she had to be here. >> they don't experience loneliness. they don't experience anxiety. they're teaching me how to be human. they're teaching me how to live. >> reporter: to that end, david recently launched the good project. it's a nonprofit based on the campus of east stroudburg university in pennsylvania where david is working on his master's in biology. he says the project will serve as a bridge between the yanamama and the rest of us so we can learn from each other. this will require many more visits to the amazon which is fine. before she left last time, she told him it's hard on when you're gone so long. don't take so long before you come back. david said, not a problem. >> someday i'm note going to have a mom. and i just spent two decades of rejecting my mom. so i want to embrace every opportunity, every moment to be with her, hang out with her. >> reporter: this story is truly unique. it's one of a kind. but this feels like there's something universal in it. >> family's family. you know? no matter if she makes me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or presents me with a piranha head and says, eat this. mom's a mom. >> reporter: yeah. yeah. osgood: still to come -- good, how are you? i'm good. yeah? osgood: tracy smith with seth rogen. but next -- >> for me, it's my grandmother. it's my mother. >> osgood: just like mother used to make. ,,,,,, ,,,,,, ♪ >> osgood: three chefs each known for their sophisticated cuisine picked food their mothers and grandmothers used to make for them. this chef from daniella, new york. alex and this chef from harlem. >> when you're looking for comforting or comfort food, you tend to go back. >> my grandmother's was always in charge of the lunch, and my mother of the dinner. >> osgood: at heart, he's still a boy on a farm in france, raising animals and growing vegetables. so your grandmother was in charge of the salad? >> she always make that and this is a very humble dish, that sometime make me the most happy. as a child, growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember the most. >> it's a memory that you trace back, the dinner table, the conversation. this is where my parents caught up with me. this is where my sister was. >> osgood: and his grandmother's kitchen is where marcus samuelson cooked his now famous swedish meatballs. >> i started cooking when i was with my grandmother. to me it was the ultimate comfort food. >> in order to hit those childhood notes on a keyboard. >> osgood: she finds comfort in the birthday cake her mother made for her every year. >> here we go. osgood: that's hot caramel she's pouring over the chocolate frosted cake. i can see you've done this before. >> yeah. you've got to -- yeah. i like when it just drips and drips. >> osgood: in just five minutes, the carmel hardens. >> you got to kind of sculpt and cut a little bit. >> osgood: chisel. you need a chisel. osgood: all right. now, is it okay to turn this on its side when you -- >> totally. it's your personal playground. 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[ cheers ] >> reporter: seth rogen loves his job except maybe the part where he has to act like a movie star. >> how's it going? good, how are you? i'm good. reporter: yeah? what goes through your head when you go into one of these things? >> oh, they're so ridiculous. these are are always a little surreal. >> reporter: still, he's used to public alation. he's had a lot of it. in the past 10 years, rogen has become one of the biggest stars of his generation, bringing his trademark laugh to more than two dozen feature films that are often surprisingly sweet and just as often downright crude. >> you like beer? eah. ou know what i don't smell like? cigarettes. >> reporter: most of the time, rogen's the weed-smoking good guy. he was the stoner dad-to-be in the 2007 hit "knocked up." >> you smoke weed? not really. you don't? no. at all? uh-uh. reporter: and a laid-back process server in "the pineapple expression." >> i sat in my car and smoked like ten doobys. >> reporter: he's not by his own admission much of a stress. how does weed play into the whole process? it's a serious question. do you smoke while you're writing or is that a separate part of your life? >> kind of like asking how coffee plays into her process, i guess. (laughter) sometimes you go days without it. sometimes you really need it. i definitely don't think it makes us better in what we do by any stretch of the imagination. which, the fabulous neighborhood -- >> reporter: now in his latest film "neighbors," he's a family man at odds with the noisy fraternity next door. >> next time we call the cops, okay? >> are you talking to me? yes. are talking to me? yes. we have to go so much further now to make people laugh and to seem edgy and outrageous than we did even eight years ago. it's crazy, the level of disgust people want these days. (laughter) >> reporter: how much are you responsible for that? >> i try to push it forward. (laughter) a lot. >> reporter: and there's plenty of shock and -- >> eww! reporter: -- in this one. but seth rogen's never really wanted to do anything else. >> hello? i'm seth rogen, and i'm a former play girl centerfold model. >> reporter: he started doing stand-up comedy in his native vancouver, canada, when he was just a teen. and your parents were cool with that? >> yeah, my mom drove to me to almost every show i ever went to until i got my driver's license and i could drive myself to them. they were very, like, supportive of my ambitions. (laughter) i'm seth rogen. have a good night, everybody. >> reporter: his stand-up gigs eventually led to a part on the tv series "freaks and geeks" alongside future stars jason segel and james franco. the series' creator judd app to you was -- app tao, was an early mentor. did you know this was going to be the start of a beautiful -- >> no, not by any means at all. i didn't think he liked me. he had an effect on people back then where people thought he didn't like them. >> reporter: "freaks" was canceled after one season, and like many actors, rogen eventually hit a dry spell. did you think back in those days, i'm on the verge of something? or did you think, man, i had my ride and maybe this is coming to an end? >> i was running out of money, so it was a chance i was just going to have to move back to canada out of like purely financial reasons. i was pretty angry. i remember, i would sit with jason segel a lot and just kind of like rant and how unfair hollywood was. i probably wasn't that cool to hang out with back then. (laughter). >> reporter: how did the anger go away? >> i remember saying i need to get a job. i think i just put that out there to people. like, please, i need a job. if anyone hears of a job, let us know about it. >> reporter: his big on-screen break came in appatow's hit "the 40-year-old virgin." >> the problem most men have is they plain straight-up have no clue how it talk to women. ♪ >> reporter: and more movies soon followed like the supersuccessful "superbad." >> nice! reporter: rogen and his friend evan goldberg actually started writing "superbad" way back when they were fresh out of bar mitva class. >> it's either the worst or second worst movie. >> reporter: they're still making movies together. cutting and recutting every scene to pack in the laughs. >> we use a lot of them. 'll try them. and then we take all -- yeah. (laughter) we act like we wrote them. (laughter) and that's how comedy works. (laughter) >> reporter: your relationship lasted longer than a lot of marriages. >> longer than my current marriage. (laughter). >> reporter: he's right about that. rogen has been married to actress lauren miller since 2011. they don't always work together, but they are heavily involved in something bigger than any movie role. while they were still dating, lauren's mom adele was diagnosed at age 55 with early onset alzheimer's. >> now she is completely incapacitated, in a wheelchair. she can't eat on her own. she can't really do anything on her own. >> reporter: did you have any idea that the disease could have that effect? >> no, not at all. i think my impression of it was kind of the more naive, like, oh, an old person losing their keys kind of thing. i didn't think it was like completely debilitating disease. >> reporter: what have you seen it do to lauren? >> a lot. it's been a massive bummer. it's hugely depressing. but it's also gotten her very motivated to do something about it. >> now we'll turn to mr. seth rogen. mr. rogen, welcome and please proceed. >> thank you, very much for having me, mr. chairman. >> reporter: it's changed his life too. in february, rogen took his mother-in-law's story to washington. >> i came here today for a few reasons. one, i'm a huge "house of cards" fan. (laughter). >> reporter: what was it like testifying in front of congress? >> it was crazy. it was the senate i think technically. i don't know the difference. i'm canadian. (laughter) i don't know if it's the same thing. after forgetting who she and her loved ones were, my mother-in-law, then forgot how to speak, feed herself, dress her self-and go to the bathroom herself all by the age of 60. >> reporter: do you think that testimony made a difference? >> yeah, it definitely at least for a moment -- even if it was the week it happened made alzheimer's something cool to talk about. it's a step in the right direction. (laughter). >> reporter: he went to capitol hill to raise alzheimer's awareness, to raise money, he went to his fans. >> look at you guys coming out to a clarity event. that's nice of you all. >> reporter: he packs them in at events at cities and colleges nationwide. so far they've pulled in nearly $1 million. >> and for us, it's so incredible not to focus on the sad part of it and we can shine a light to a dark situation. >> i agree, lauren. (laughter) >> reporter: rogen says he'll keep telling people about a disease that can rob them of their brains, even as he keeps making movies that are less than cerebral. >> i don't know. file a police report. >> reporter: it seems that seth rogen can take on anything and find a way to laugh. 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(laughter) you know, i don't know enough not to take the shots. but i always take the shot. >> reporter: for richard parsons, this is just the latest reclamation project in a long sometimes turbulent keir full of them -- career full of them. we spent some time with parsons at the site of a very different reclamation project, a historic jazz club he's restored in harlem. >> what we try to do to sort of capture some of the history of the place was some of these pictures, dizzy gillespie who played here every monday night and helped create bee bop. >> reporter: he might sound like a jazz historian but he made his mark in business, first as the chairman and ceo of media giant time warner, then as chairman of citigroup. he has a reputation as a cool customer. a trait he says it cultivated growing up as the middle of five children. >> when you're in the middle somewhere, the older ones rain down on -- you know this, right? and you have to protect yourself from the other ones so you have to learn a lot of diplomacy. >> reporter: parsons grew up in queens, new york. his was the first black family to move into this lower middle class neighborhood. >> every house was basically identical. >> reporter: uh-hmm. and i remember my father bought one in 1953. >> reporter: price back then was? >> $13,900. reporter: he attended public school showing in a promise to skip two grades and graduate high school at 16. he went on to college, then law school in new york, graduating first in his class, catching the eye of a very powerful mentor, then-governor nelson rockefeller. >> it was a match made in heaven. he liked me and i liked him. he introduced me to a world i never would have been introduced to growing up where i grew up. >> reporter: parsons was on the fast track, but race was sometimes part of the equation. like the time he showed up at a high-powered meeting. >> all these heavyweights sitting in the room and the secretary said, well, the governor's lawyer's here so the door flew up and i ran in and everybody's still looking at the door. they were behooved. so i stood there for about 10 seconds. i said, gentlemen, i said is the governor's lawyer out? he is coming? i said, he's here. >> reporter: by 31, he was partner of a major law firm. at 40, he ran a large regional bank. and at 47, he became president of time warner, the largest media company in the world. but it was a bumpy ride. he faced tough criticism after the ill-fated merger of time warner and aol in 2000, which lost billions for investors and cost thousands of jobs. >> you have a degree of regret obviously, but you can't go back and undo history or undo what's happened. all you can do is try and fix it, try and make it better. >> reporter: parsons is credited with steadying the ship before he left in 2007. enough so that he was named chairman of citigroup in the midst of the great recession in 2009. once again, he took some of the heat for citi's risky investments. do you say, how could i not have seen it? >> we all have done things in life where you go, how could i have been so stupid? how could i have missed that? hindsight is 20/20. >> reporter: again, some say parsons lived up to his reputation as corporate america's mr. fix-it, paying taxpayers back $20 billion of government bailout money and putting new management in place. he retired in 2012 and, with an estimated worth of $100 million, he was free to pursue his interests. but now the nba is hoping the man nicknamed the great mediator can help navigate the tricky waters of race and high finance. >> most people don't think they're bigots. they really don't. but they just have a set of expectations and things that are in their subconscious that they aren't even aware of that effect affect the world they grew up in and how they assume the world should be. and so you have to dash you do have to confront that from time to time. and sunny days. perfect, no matter what you're wearing. it's so on. coppertone clearlysheer. it's on. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! 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