that it could lead to a real job later on, but is unpaid internship really a sure way of getting a foot in the door? that is a question tracy smith will be exploring in our sunday morning cover story. >> from colonial willups burgh -- >> you -- >> to the white house. >> my name is eastern and i am from cbs. >> to cbs news, interns are everywhere. >> are you getting paid? >> i am not getting paid. >> and not everyone is happy about it. >> are interns getting a raw deal? >> absolutely they are getting a raw deal. >> america's intrn revolution later on sunday morning. >> osgood: burning questions abound this summer and one of them is also leisure time activity, it is not without its serious side. >> salie this morning will present the facts. >> wouldn't it be nice -- >> chances are if you weren't trapped inside all summer, you might have developed one of these, a tan. >> for some, it is the mark of a vacation well spent. for others, it is sun damage. >> for jimmy coco, it is all in a day's work. >> here we go, the shades of summer. >> later on sunday morning. >> osgood: iron mike is the nickname mike tyson earned along with the heavy weight boxing title. out of the ring his mean guy image persists but he is doing his best to change that, as we will hear from bill whitaker. >> it is the truth, i am the best. >> a big right hand. >> we all know former heavyweight champ mike tyson, the badest man on the planet, a brute in the ring and out. >> or do we? >> this is garbage. all of this is garbage. >> it is only a symbol of greatness. >> mike tyson, we show you a mike tyson you have never net before, later on sunday morning. >> osgood: now, at one point in the summer do parents begin to realize the children they thought would be happy campers are not exactly. the first clue is often when they get letters of the sort bill geist will be sharing with us. >> you send your kids to a nice summer camp and the first letter home sounds like a ransom note. >> is from my daughter when she was eight years old. >> dear mom and dad, i have had an okay time, first i started crying because i missed you and then i got in a fight with amy and everybody was on her side, and i don't like any of their food, and i can't get any sleep around here, mom call me, i am not allowed to use the telephone. >> the i love you, say hello to peaches for me, that's our cat, love libby. >> letters from summer camp later on sunday morning. >> osgood: and more. but first the headlines for sunday morning, the 14th of august, 2011. the race for the republican presidential nomination may have reached a turning point, rick perry announced his candidacy, the day belonged to congresswoman michele bachmann. >> we have the story from ames, iowa. >> hi, everybody. >> it was a good day for minnesota congresswoman and tea party favorite michele bachmann who finished first in the iowa straw poll. >> there is no cooler place in the united states than iowa! >> thank you! >> still, it was a narrow victory over texas congressman ron paul. >> it is time we restored freedom to america. >> the two captured more than half of the nearly 17,000 votes cast. it was the second highest turnout ever for this poll, a popularity contest with little official impact on the nominating process. >> free barbecue and live music made for summertime fun. the biggest disappointment was governor pawlenty's distant third place finish, so disappointing that he dropped out of the race this morning. >> charlie. >> osgood: o'donnell names iowa. thank you. at least four people are dead after a stage collapsed at the indiana state fair. the band sugarland was about to perform last night when wind gusts estimated 6070 miles per hour blew threw, police and firefighters spent the night sorting through debris, it is possible more victims will be found. >> in afghanistan, a team of six suicide bombers took aim at a local official's compound north of kabul yesterday, the highly coordinated attack claimed at least 19 lives with the taliban taking responsibility. they are looking for a missing heirship in ohio this morning, 128-foot blimp came off board on an overnight storm and last seen heading east very slowly, nobody on board. now for today's weather, stormy along the east coast but the midwest gets to dry out a little after getting soaked yesterday. aside from some rain in the northeast the week ahead looks sunny and warm, so enjoy it while you can. >> i am an intern. >> next, summer interns, lots of work -- >> it is unpaid. >> no paycheck either. >> and later, remembering the boom boxes boom times. 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for the 18th century experience. >> you can dock your hat. >> in one aspect williamsburg is as modern as any 21st century city. >> i am a historical interpretation intern. >> the place is crawling with interns. >> happen to see on the web site they had an internship. >> more than 100. >> how are you this day? >> even thomas jefferson isn't sure what to make of them. >> what do you think of internships? >> internship, well, i beg your pardon ms. smith i am not too familiar with the term internship. >> sam eadie makes tools in the furniture shop while intern erica moses digs for artifacts. >> today we are going to teach you haste to the wedding. >> intern lauren jane teaches colonial dancing. >> we are going around in the circle for eight counts. >> for lauren it is a dream job, except for one thing. >> are you getting paid? >> i am not getting paid, i am not, i am getting paid in experience, i feel. >> in experience? >> in experience. >> does experience pay the rent? >> it doesn't, but family, friends have been very, very generous to me this summer. >> and why not pay your interns? >> i would like to pay the interns, i mean really it is a matter of finances. >> jay gainer is director of historic trades at williamsburg. >> he said internships are a win-win, the kids get experience, and the employers? >> greatest benefit for us is that we get some extra help and we need some extra help. it is just very straightforward. >> we get some new blood. >> these young kids have a different perspective on things and that is exciting. >> all work for little or no pay, that is the intern's lot, and today, there are lots of them, from yosemite to sea world to the white house, and just about everywhere inbetween. >> intern ships are almost a trend, they are so popular today, everybody wants these internships .. lauren berger calls herself the intern queen, for good reason. she talked her way into 15 college inter internships, all . >> and if i went back in time i would do it all over again, for me those internships have helped me learn so much about myself and about what i wanted to do and it was information that i was. getting in the classroom. >> while most colleges have career centers to help place students, resources vary widely, so after graduating, berger started an internship information web site, because she knows kids are getting desperate. >> the most common question that employers are asking in that job interview after graduation, is where did you intern andive person next to you, even has one internship and you didn't, there is a good chance that that other person is going to land the opportunity. >> in a 2010 survey, 42 percent of college students who graduated with an internship on their resume received a job offer, compared to just 30 percent for students with no intern experience. and those graduates with internships received a higher starting salary, about $42,000, compared to just 35,000 for those without. the message is loud and clear. >> i am interning at alexander wayne. >> prudential. >> new york city parks. >> >> how hot are internships? >> in new york city, earlier this month, lauren berger threw a small party for interns to meet and greet and got a lot more than she bargained for. >> my name is eric a and i am from cbs. >> i am from cbs news can i ask you a few questions. >> we thought it was appropriate to have our own sunday morning interns cover the event. >> is the internship you are in now, paid or unpaid? >> it is unpaid. >> ian goldstein. >> erica mahoney helped research this report, and it was an eye opening experience. >> since you guys are in this unique position of being interns and doing a story on internships, what a surprise, what surprised you most about digging into this. >> i was really surprised by the fact that so many people are against internships being unpaid. there are a lot of people that i found who are like it is illegal, it is unfair. i was so surprised that so many people were saying that. >> people like ross eisen bray. >> are interns getting a raw deal? >> absolutely they are getting a raw deal, and many of them don't know it. >> ice enbray is vice president of the economic policy institute, a nonprofit washington think tank. >> unpaid internships, he says, are taking paid jobs away from people who need them. >> this is a concern that economists have, why isn't business hiring people? >> well, if they can have people work for free, why should they hire anyone? and, in fact, i would say, you know, if they could get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week without paying them, so much the better. they don't have to pay them overtime. i mean, where does this stop? >> and there is another problem he says, increasingly, the top big city internships are going to kids from the top of the income ladder. >> who can afford to come to washington and spend 4,000 dollars on housing and food and then work without being paid? it is not the children of farm workers or factory workers or the children of people who are unemployed right now. it is going to be upper middle class kids. >> one important thing about -- >> sunday morning intern erica mahoney agrees, like all 75 summer interns at cbs she receives a $50 per week stipend. >> my parents are helping me out a lot, and, you know, it is hard to think about that, because i have friends who wouldn't be able to do something like this, and so, you know, i -- every day i call my parents and i tell them everything about my day because i know that like is how i can show my appreciation. >> you seem to feel a little guilty about this. >> i do. i think it is hard, because i know that i see so much potential in people who may not be able to be here too. >> what is wrong with working for free? if a kid says i want to do it, i want the experience, what is wrong with that? >> well, you could say that about the entire labor market, they could persuade people to work for half of the minimum wage if they could get an adult to work for free for six months, not just young people, then why not? what is wrong with that? well, it degrades the entire value of work. >> but in this economy, some people would rather work for agree than not work at all. >> this is our barn. this is where the -- >> and they are not just kids. >> normally they are in a game, i sit way over there. >> after ten years fund-raising for various nonprofit groups in knoxville, tennessee, kristina shan found herself suddenly unemployed. >> it literally was within 15 minutes i had no job, i had no insurance, i had nothing. >> a life long hockey fan, she took a bold step in an age 38 talked her way into an unpaid internship with a minor league hockey team. , the knoxville ice bears. >> i just started working the games and helping with any promotions in marketing and so i did that for the entire 2009, 2010 season. it was strange at times, you know, i am working with 2 20-year-old and almost twice their age. >> it worked that unpaid intern is now a paid media consultant. >> you have got to be able to think big, and then have the guts to kind of start from the bottom and maybe you will hit the jackpot like i did. >> we are going to pass out a page from a dancing booklet. >> back in colonial williamsburg the jackpot is exactly what intern lauren james is hoping to hit. >> let's try that together. >> all summer i have been saying hopefully this is a three-month job interview, hopefully this will catapult my career and do great things for me because this really has been such a learning summer. >> one good thing about williamsburg. >> you can always turn to thomas jefferson for advice. >> so is it wise to work for no money? >> yes, i would fake the risk and pursue certain employment, whatever it may be, without the benefit of the media remuneration but for the benefit of immediate enlightenment and that might further lead to an opportunity that will pay and perhaps pay far the better than would have ever thought at the beginning. >> osgood: ahead -- >> oh, get out! >> osgood: play ball. >> yeah! >> osgood: and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. august 14, 1953, 58 years ago today. the day baseball was thrown a real curve. but that was the day david mahaney of fairfield connecticut had a game changing idea. a picture for the university of connecticut back in the day. peter was out of work with a sick son just 12 years of age, as the younger son told he was having trouble playing his father's old game. >> he knew i couldn't throw a curveball very well, so he decided that we could build a ball that would curve a little easier than a regulation softball or tennis ball. >> what he designed that august date was a hollow plastic ball, with a pattern of cutouts, a ball that would curve naturally all by itself n 1957, he received a patent for his creation, which he called the whiffle ball after the local custom of saying the batter that struck out had whiffed. >> easy to throw, the whiffle ball quickly became a hit as it were to kids of all ages. >> organized, there are organized whiferl ball leagues. >> whiffle balls and bats are made in a factory in shelton, connecticut not far from their birthplace under the watchful eye of a third generation of maleney. >> scientists don't quite agree why the whiffle ball curves the way it does, not even david malaney, the former 12-year-old who was there at the beginning. >> i don't know what science does but i know i have no clue. >> what we do know for sure is that the family distinctive plastic ball is a genuine american success story. the telltale sign and sound. of summertime fun. >> westward ho with artist andrew shay. >> osgood: these works were painted by the american artist ed rushay a long ago the classic advice togo west, young man. he has been on extended road trip for nearly half a century now, this morning, john blackstone shows us the results. >> the landscape of the american west has inspired artists in many ways. but no one has seen the west quite like ed rushay. >> his category defying paintings are not so much landscapes as images and thoughts. snatched in the, from the landscape. >> it is a subject of every day life as where people should stop and think about those elements that are being overlooked and yet seen at the same time. >> his paintings now command millions of dollars at auction, one was even selected by president obama to hang at the white house. but back in 1956 his desire was simply to get out of his home state of oklahoma and head west. >> i guess maybe it was -- there was an urge, some kind of primitive adolescent urge to get on the road and go see that. >> with his friend mason williams, who would later become famous as the composer of this music, classical gas, they set out along route 66 heading to los angeles. and ruchet started to notice classical gas station. >> i thought there was a fertile happening out here with all of these gas stations and i had to do something about it. >> what he did about it led to the emergence of a unique vision of the american west. a vision that was on view in texas at the modern art museum of fort worth. >> he wasn't just stopping and getting an easel and painting trees on the road. he was taking photographs, he was taking notes. >> but the show's curator's his photographs of 26 gasoline stations between oklahoma and los angeles which he later turned into a book signaled a new way of seeing the world. >> none of these gas stations are particularly interesting. they are just places, and i think what shocked the art world about these pictures was that he wasn't being artistic. he was almost playing the role of anthro follow gist. >> but in the role of artist .. he started turning these overlooked roadside places into the subjects of his vibrant and precise paintings. >> basically, what he did was create a new form of landscape painting based on fragments of roadside events that you would see through the windshield of your car. >> maybe that's what i have been doing my entire life as an artist is trying to depict boxes and facades with words on them. >> back in 1982 sunday morning visited ed at work in his los angeles studio. as a student of industrial art and sign painting, he became particularly fascinated by the shape and texture of words. he puts words in his paintings not because of what they mean but how they feel. >> they have like temperatures to me, and they are either hot or cold and they don't have to be any particular thing. >> yeah, they are upside down because you are looking at them from upside down. >> when the show opened in fort worth he had some very special visitors. >> his grandsons seven-year-old milo and four-year-old tristan. >> his paintings do have a mystery to them. their message can be elusive. >> are you sometimes amazed and maybe amused at the meanings people put into your work? >> sometimes they are head scratching, sometimes they are right on, and sometimes they are nothing that i intended, but it is all part of the same magic. i don't know. >> for michael offing the tension between image and words can be explained from rochet's love of the open road. >> i hate to make it complicated but it is complicated, how do we experience the world? do we experience it through language or image? what he is saying is on the american roadside you experience it both ways. there is nature, and there are billboards. there are standards and labrea, there are all of these things sort of rattling around in your head when you any you are just seeing one thing, and he represents that authority. >> he likes to celebrate the american west, its lifestyle and landscape. >> his latest painting shown recently at the gallery in los angeles focuses on what is left behind after we pass by. his imagery can leave us wondering just what is it he wants us to see. >> mine are like ideas of these landscapes, paint a mountaintop it is not really a mountaintop, it is an idea of a mountaintop. >> and even if 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for those tans? celebrity spray tanner jimmy coco earns up to $350 a spray. >> people call me up and they ask, will i be orange? and i just want to say, excuse me, this is jimmy coco. you are not going to be orange. no, no, no, no, no! >> but it wasn't always like this. >> tanning used to be very unpopular, my grandma who was a farmer's wife would wear long sleeve shirts and would wear the big sun hats to protect herself for her the idea of beauty was the ivory skin because that represented having wealth, you didn't have to work in the fields. >> according to joel hill house professor of public health at east tennessee state university, the history of tanning in america is more than a little colorful. >> as we began to move into a more industrial society, then ivory skin represented being a factory worker and tan skin represented having the leisure to lay out in the sun or even to travel to sunny places. >> legend has it coco chanel started the tanning trend when she got burned on the river i can't but, riviera but floppers were already camping rays at the shore, after world war 2 .. the tanning craze really started to sizzle when babes met the bikini. >> beach blanket bingo, anyone? >> the kids would get tans and come in and all the girls would go, ooh, ah over the girls. >> ron arrive was a lifeguard during those days. >> and this just was a fun time to live, but nobody thought about damage, sun damage. >> nope. they were thinking about a deep, dark tan. >> so in 1967, when he was a high school chemistry teacher in daytona beach, florida, rice created what would become thinkian tropic tanning oil in his garage. >> i got a garage began for $4, i cut a broom and cut off the handle from the top and stirred it up like a witch's brew and the kids poured it in the bottles and away we went. >> the blend of aloe, coconut and other oils became synonymous with a sexy lifestyle. >> i lived a dream, i had a little idea, women used french perfume and paid big money for french perfume but never got to go to france, same thing with hawaii, nobody gets to travel to hawaii unless you have a lot of money so i dreamed up the idea of we will call it hawaiian. >> suntan oils and lotions promise to tan safely, but by the 1980s they started to be replaced by sunscreens. in 1981, sunscreens made up only a third of sun care products, 15 years later, sunscreens dodge made with 96 percent of the market. >> suntans as we know it today is sun damage, and so while it seems nice and it feels good and it may be looks good, what we know is that it is actually sun damaged skin. >> consumer reports rangin like all experts under the sun, says that today's tan can be tomorrow's problem. which is why you now find sunscreen in everything. from make-up to hair conditioners, you will even find sunscreen on george hamilton. so we should be in the pink when it comes to sun protection, right? not so says dr. lino a resident in dermatology at stanford university. >> what we found in our study is that people who say they use sunscreen frequently don't necessarily get fewer sunburns. do they get more sunburned. >> in this study they did report more sunburn and that was surprising. >> also surprising, though americans are using more sunscreen than ever, skin cancer rates continue to rise. >> do sunscreen give people a false sense of security? we wonder about that. do people just sort of slather their sunscreen on and feel like once they have done it once they are set for the whole day? >> still, staying out of the sun does not mean tanning beds are the golden ticket. the world health organization lists them as a carcinogen alongside cigarettes, and tanning can be kind of addictive. >> people that in door tan typically an outdoor tan report it makes them feel relaxed we know uv radiation when it hits our skin will release endorphins, something that give a person a runner's high. >> he studies while millions of people lie down in tanning beds even though experts say it increases their chances of developing skin cancer by 75 percent. >> a young student of mine was involved in one of my early studies and came up to me and said, doctor, i came three, i tanned, three, four times a week, my mom has skin cancer i will probably get skin cancer but that is going to happen when i am old like in my 40s and that is a very typical attitude among young people. so what is a pale face to do? >> well, you could make an appointment with jimmy coco. >> here we go. >> spray tanner to stars like eva longoria. >> what is wrong with being pale. >> why are tans so great. >> especially in hollywood, they say white is no not a camera co. >> the thing about being tan there is the allure of being tan is that you are accomplished, you are successful, you are able to have gone off to an exotic island and vacation and come back again, everyone looks better with a tan, absolutely. >> do i look different. >> nowadays, maybe it is the only way to glow. >> but it is the dark side of 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[ female announcer ] visit nasonex.com for more information. >> osgood: every once in a while we encounter a new talent, we believe deserves your notice. introducing brit marling, our anthony mason will do the honors. >> you may not have seen her name in lights just yet, but in 27, brit marling is one of the most talked about young talents in movies. >> i read you wanted to be like barbara stanwyck. >> oh, my gosh she is amazing. >> how do you know barbara stanwyck? >> i love, yes, i think she is so, such an interesting example of how to be a woman. >> you ought to be kept in a cage! >> she is sexy but she is in control of her sex appeal, and she is smart and -- >> marling is no dummy either. >> you read me. is anyone out there? >> she cowrote, coproduce and stars in the new film "another earth" which imagines the discovery of an identical planet. >> earth is replicated elsewhere. >> marling plays rhoda williams. >> the mystery flight member is 21-year-old rhoda williams who is rumored to be an ex-convict. >> who enters a contest to win a ticket to earth 2. >> remember i entered that contest i told you about, it travels to earth 2. >> uh-huh. >> i won. >> the movie won a major award at this year's sundance film festival. >> suddenly, it is marling's career that seems headed for the stars. >> i am humbled and honor to be a part of the conversation that is happening here. >> the wall street journal hailed the emergence of a startlingly fine young actress. >> time says this is one of those moments where someone comes out of nowhere and seems instantly a movie star. >> you know the story of the russian cosmonaut. >> in "another earth" marling's character tells the story of a cosmonaut tortured by a ticking sound in his spaceship. >> if he can't find it, he can't stop it, it keeps going. >> the cosmonaut decides the only way to save his sanity is to fall in love with this sound. so he closes his eyes and he doesn't hear the ticking anymore. >> he hears music. >> when i think of georgetown, i think of politicians, i think of diplomats, think of basketball players, i don't think of movie makers. what happened? >> what did happen? >> marling enrolled in washington's georgetown university as an economics major. >> so this is where you gave your valedictoria value dick sp. >> you are totally embarrassing me. >> valedictorian of her graduating class in 2005, marling even interned as an analyst at wall street's powerhouse investment bank goldman sachs. >> goldman sachs offered you a job and you said? >> no thank you. >> no thank you? >> i could see the kind of person i was sort of becoming and it seemed not right. i was like missing something. >> instead, marling took a year off from college to make a documentary in cuba. >> >> i called my parents and i was like, i am not going back to school. >> and what did they say? >> i am going to cuba, i am moving to cuba with mike, this amazing film maker i met at school. >> mike is mike cahill who would direct "another earth". >> they met at a campus film festival at georgetown. >> and it was just like this weird tribe of people came out of nowhere and it is like this whole movement happened, it was really cool. >> they moved out to la together to make their mark, but marling didn't like the parts he was auditioning for. >> i don't want to do this horror film like where my head is coming off at the end, and like i am running away from somebody and like in a bikini. i mean, what? >> that is when marling and cahill came up with the idea for "another earth". it was literally a homemade film. that is cahill's parents house in new haven connecticut playing the home of marling's character. shooting on a shoestring budget, they were forced to improvise. >> there is one scene in the film the hypothermia scene, and that scene, realized is taking place in four different seasons, like shot one is from the winter, shot 2 is in the spring. >> they had to break into a ski resort to find snow. >> so we waited until everyone left and we climbed over the fence. >> you stole their snow? >> we stole their snow. >> how did you feel about the reception at sundance? >> i have never seen anything like it. iit blew my mind. >> "another earth" was given a standing ovation. >> and it is like how has this happened? like this small, hand made film at mike mom's house. oh, my gosh i went back to my hotel room and i just cried. i just cried. i couldn't believe it. >> and for actress brit marling, that new star in the sky may be her own. >> osgood: next, so who does have the money these days? .. >> osgood: where has all of the money gone? there has to be a lot piled smup where. for the answer we will go to ms. butler of the fast draw. >> unemployment is high and wages are low. money is tight. unless you know where to look. don't look in washington. the government still doesn't know how it is going to pay its bills. >> take a look at corporate america, while millions of americans have been looking for work, big businesses have been piling up the cash. companies like apple, ge, pfizer and, yep, cbs have a combined total of more than $1.2 trillion and that is not property value or income. that is cash or cash equivalents, money they could spend tomorrow. >> university of chicago economist stephen kaplan says it has been an impressive accomplishment considering the depths of the recession. >> companies by and large reacted quickly and as the economy has come back, the profits have come back, and that cash is what is sitting on company balance sheets. >> but since the economy is so lackluster, companies aren't spending. their cash is just sitting there, so we wondered what could all of those companies do with $1.2 trillion. well, they could pay three years of rent for every american who rents their home. or they could buy every home that went into foreclosure in 2007 and 2008. they could fund the militaries of every nato country combined for an entire year. or they could pay the bill every time a driver in this country fills up with gas for three years. they could pay each and every one of our bills for more than ten years or give more than every appeal in america $10,000 of course they won't do any of these things and they may not create jobs any time soon because they are nervous about the economy, just like everyone else. they are looking around and they are seeing there is so much uncertainty going forward that they are deciding they are going to be cautious and not invest. >> so the most likely hold on to their cash until the economy is truly turning around. >> they will save it to spend later. when they can make more money. >> osgood: ahead, the beat goes on. >> osgood: ancient audio advice john cusack was using, was known as a boom box. we come to you now with a blast from the past. >> if you were listening to music in the eighties, you might have been hearing it out of a boom box. a very loud boom box. maybe too loud channel can you turn that down a bit! thanks. that's better. big stereo speakers, a tape deck or two and lots of heavy d batteries. >> boom boxes were first introduced in the late 1970's, so instead of listening at home, you could take the beast to the street. it meant you were like a walking jukebox if you will so you had music and, you know, i guess in the e.r.a. i grew up in a section of brooklyn so it was a cool, typical fun thing, everybody would gather around it to hear that cool music. >> artist and hip-hop pioneer fab 5 freddie remembers the sound of the city. >> how important is the bass to the boom box. >> the bass was important to the boom, that's where the boom comes from, is because, you know, the popular music as we came from, you know, funk, of course, disco and then hip-hop, that bass was important and getting a good, clean boom, boom base meant a lot. >> in the early eighties, hip-hop was still in its in fancy, it wasn't on mtv and you could hardly hear it on the radio, but through the boom box, you could listen to songs often dealing with urban decay and racial injustice. songs like the message by grandmaster flash and the furious 5. ♪ ring my phone and scare my wife when i am not home. i got a bum education, double digit inflation, there is a strike at the station. >> those stories weren't being written, and they certainly weren't being published in poetry or mainstream publications like that, so what better way than to communicate a message through sound? which has been done, you know, through the history of music. the boom box as an image represents community, it represents defines, it represents an outgoing nature. it represents, i need to be seen, paid attention to, and defined. >> nice. photographer lyle has his own collection of boom boxes. >> their images and stories are documented in his book the boom box project. >> i hear stories of back in the day, like on the beach and they are all listen listening to their own boom boxes and they all tune them in together and like, you know, get that same song going so that it is like a whole democracy of sound. >> of course, not everyone wanted to join the sonic community. >> we need a spot we can sit back and enjoy something other than a lot of loud music. >> the boom box had its detractors. >> a sentiment popularized in the 1986 film star trek 4, the voyage home. >> but it was too late. >> sorry, mom and dad, the boom box was everywhere. >> it is important the boom boxes, and it wasn't just an inner-city thing, it extended around the globe, and it was wherever people wanted to listen to music, whether it was a beach cafe, in a mechanic shop, in an artist studio. >> today is boom box is with ded as a symbol of rebellious spirit and remains a pop culture icon. and though it is still seen it is no longer heard. >> looks like the big bad boom box got drowned out by the little bitty walk man. >> the boom box was on the wrong side of history. getting bigger as people were plugging into smaller and smaller devices. so small nowadays they fit in the palm of your hand. >> and so this ability to be in your own little bubble and hear music, you know, still get great sonics but just right into your ear as opposed to everybody else's, it was good for some people and bad for others. >> and though it might be gone it is always important every once in a while to hit pause, then rewind and pay respect. >> osgood: ahead, mail call. >> ps, i hate it here. >> letters home from unhappy campers. >> but first mike tyson. >> i love you. >> osgood: tough guy no more. >> okay, go with mommy. >> it is sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: you know, who these pigeons are, they say in poker if you don't know who the pigeon is you are the pigeon, the church, who would have thought the big bad former heavyweight champ iron mike tyson would happen to be a pigeon fancier. with bill whitaker, see for yourself. >> i am the best ever. i am the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there ever has been, no one can stop me. >> if you were around in the 1980s and 90s you surely know mike tyson. >> this is my calling from god, there is what i do. a braggart, a brawler, who was the youngest undisputed heavyweight champ ever. >> iron mike, the self-proclaimed badest man on the planet was one of the richest, most recognizable athletes in the world. >> i am the best in the world, even though a lot don't like to hear it, it is a fact, i am the best you know what i mean? sometimes i don' i don't want to believe it myself but it is the truth. >> his successes in the ring matched only by his excesses outside of it. >> and i didn't want to do anything, and i love women, you know what i mean? my mother is a woman. >> the women, the drugs, the crimes, the controversy. >> check this guy out. >> but that was then. this is now. >> at 45, he shed 150 pounds and a lot of old baggage. >> check these guys out, he is a cool guy. >> he turned away from his outsized lust and lifestyle, traded them in for the sun drenched suburbs of las vegas. >> this is it. >> and endless time with his oldest friends, his pigeons. >> you know, these are my babi babies. >> it is a passion he shared with the audience of animal planet in a recent series taking on tyson. >> these birds over here, are 14 years old. >> the bad man now dedicated bird man. and full time dad. he shares the suburban house with his third wife, kiki and son morocco napping upstairs and two-year-old milan. >> hi. >> hi. >> hi. >> he is father of eight, but never spent much quality time with the older ones. >> never been hands on consistently like, this you know, i know i should be shot in the head because i didn't experience that, because that's what i was i was so in love with myself i had no competitors. >> where did that mike tyson go somewhere did this mike tyson come from? >> i don't know. he is not as exciting as the old guy but he is pretty, you know, he is going to get the job done now. >> the job now? well, he is fighting to change his life. in some ways, he has been doing that his whole life, abandoned by husband father as an infant, raised by his mother, he grew up poor on the meanest of brooklyn streets, his first fight was over one of his birds. >> i said give me my bird back. >> he said you want it and he put blood all over my face, you have it, my blood for some reason i started fighting right there, that was the first fight i had in my life, started right here. >> as a young man, his pigeons meant the world to him. >> and they are like my brothers and sisters, my friends, and i don't have to worry about them asking me for any money or trying to get over me or do anything or try to hurt you for any reason. >> still, he seemed headed for a life of crime. until legendary trainer and manager custom motto threw him a lifeline, boxing. >> he was good at it, tough and disciplined. >> he liked it. >> i thought it was cool, because he kept saying nice things about me every time i did it and i liked him, i was born in hell and every time i do well, it is one step out of hell, so, yeah, i enjoyed it a lot. >> i it took you places. >> i never dreamt i would see. >> it brought you quite high. >> and brought me quite low too. >> you know, in order to fail greatly you have to attempt to succeed greatly. >> the two come together. >> upper cut, lands a big right hand. >> when he was at the top of his game, electrifying and terrible -- >> a left hand, a right hand. >> he is going to hang on. they will stop the fight. >> he was at the top of the world. >> the upper cut. >> vanquishing contenders. >> thoughting convention. >> throughout flowfting con convention. >> doing the high life through his terms. >> earning by some estimates as much as $400 million, more than must have to feed all his appetites. >> it was fun being that guy. you know what i mean? it was fun being the -- doing what i wanted to do. i mean, people -- addicted to chaos? >> yeah. you know, i kept getting in trouble, i didn't stop. >> trouble with women, his first marriage dissolved amid charges of spouse abuse. >> there was a time when he cannot control his temper. >> he was convicted and served time for rape. >> round 2 with the upper cut. >> and he perpetrated one of the most infamous acts in modern sports history. >> in a 1997 comeback match -- >> look out, you see it, you see it. >> he bit evander holyfield ear's and tore off a piece of one. >> tyson really never came back from that. >> i'm sorry bit him, because i started really liking him again. he is a good guy, you know what i mean? so i was just pissed off and i bit him, undisciplined, i'm sorry, i didn't mean to do it. >> you punching ass white boy. >> i can't handle being that guy, you know, that guy is a creation, and i am mike the badest man on the planet, there is nobody like that, people like that don't exist. i just had the audacity and idiocy to say it. >> what do you think of that mike ti tyson when you look bacn him? >> i don't know, she kind of scary, you know, i wouldn't want to be that guy anymore, you know what i mean, and i get it now, i didn't get it before, that's a very scary guy. this guy right here was next to that guy. i would be uncomfortable. >> his career on the matt, he filed for bankruptcy in 2003, soon retired from boxing. >> mike tyson trips on his stool stool he is not coming out. >> he said it is the best thing he ever did. >> that life is gone, the entourage is gone, the riches gone, the outrageous celebrity, gone. >> well, that is good. i have my wife and my kids. i have all of the pleasures that can ever be given me and it doesn't match up to, it doesn't compare at all to my wife and kids, you know, so can't even compare to that. they can't. not even a little bit. >> mike, one more, please. >> staying on the straight and narrow has had its ups and downs. he has had recent brushes with the law, a cocaine conviction in 2007, arrested for scuffling with a photographer in 2009. >> but he has been to rehab and is now nearly three years sober. he knows skeptics will think this new mike tyson is just another act. he wonders if he is fooling himself. from his suburban enclarify he can see las vegas shimmering in the distance where he was once up in lights, resisting the pull of the past is the hardest fight of his life. >> it is a problem. life is a struggle. when you came here it is not easy in order to make this work i have to kill my ego. i can't have an ego in order to allow this to work. >> he struggled to hold on when his four-year-old daughter other from a previous relationship died in a freak accident two years ago. >> did that change you? >> you know, i like to use that as an excuse, my daughter died, it sounds great for television too, my daughter died and my life change i am not a scum bag anymore, i would like to think that is the reason why i changed and can think i am tired and old foolish old man and need to get my life together. >> he calls himself a work in progress, while he hasn't given up all of the vestiges of the past -- >> you like the tattoos. >> i love the tattoo, bill. i love it, bill. the tattoo looks like i can kick your ass, though, doesn't it? >> he reads a lot. >> from per cles to plato, machiavelli. >> mark twain. >> and he has discovered his funny side. >> he had audiences laughing in the hit movie the hangover. ♪ i can feel it coming in the air tonight. >> he returned in the hangover part 2 this summer. he says it helps pie the bills. >> did you notice you could be funny. >> i know i am a clown, a joke, you look at my career, but, yeah, i am funny, really funny. >> if his career is a joke, it doesn't make him laugh. >> look at this stuff. this is history here. >> you are history. >> this is garbage. i am saying i am blessed with garbage. >> it is meaningless? >> at one time it meant a lot when you are just a young kid this is everything to you, but then you realize your priorities change and you just want your children to be happy and do nice things and that makes you happy. this is hog. this is just nothing, man. >> i love you. >> keeping his family together, keeping his life together, well, they don't give belts for that, but succeed in this arena, and he might truly be a champion. >> this is pretty interesting. i like this life right now. >> when in your life has been the best time? >> now. >> now. right now supercedes all of those championship belts. all of that money. all of that i let go. right now. >> osgood: coming up, everything is -- i want my money back. pick me up! >> can camp be that bad? . >> osgood: as many parents know, first time campers are often unhappy campers. at least at first, and they let themselves vent in the letters they send home. >> i never really liked summer camp, my memories are of icy swims, awful outhouses, and counselors who acted like disonably discharged drill sergeants. >> but summer camp is so much better these days. .. >> good morning! >> just ask the happy campers at camp meadowlark in maine. >> dear mom, meadowlark is amazing, fun, spectacular, awesome. >> today i did some really cool things. >> i. >> beautiful. >> i made four candles in cande class, it is really fun. >> what is not to like about summer camp? >> well. >> this camp is like a conzen a attraction. >> concentration camp. >> he thought of a few things when he wrote a letter home from a camp in connect shut. >> i am writing this letter on monday, june 29th, 1981. >> everybody in the cabin i hate, the whole lake is seaweed. >> i am not going swimming. i feel like i am going to throw up because of worriness, write back and call, pick me up! >> it is a rant as part of a book entitled ps i hate it here, compiled by diane felanga. >> the title came about from a letter in the book. >> mark writes dear mom and dad i am having a great time at camp, not! ps i hate it here. >> she was inspired by a letter from her own daughter bianca, then eight years old in a camp. >> dear mom and dad i miss you and i cried because i am homesick. they made me clean the table, i want to go home. >> what is a patient to do? there was that moment of thinking, you know, should i call the camp director? >> well, they didn't call me, so instead i am just going to call everyone i know and read them the letter. and that is really what happened is when i started to read the letter, everybody's reaction was if you think that is funny, hold the phone, i got one that is going to top that. >> diane found that everyone saves these camp letters. i did. this is from my daughter when she was eight years old. >> dear mom and dad, i have had an okay time. first i started crying, because i missed you and then i not in a fight with amy and everybody was on her side. and i don't like any of their food. and i can't get any sleep around here. mom, call me. i am not allowed to use the telephone. i love you, say hello to peaches for me, that's our cat. love. >> diane put out the call and came up with more than 3,000 camp letters. >> that island of the kitchen, the floor of the kitchen table, it was covered with letters. >> she culled 150 real doozies. >> this is guess what? love leslie and she sent a chunk of her hair. >> some a wit bit unsettling dear mom and dad, grant has his own gun. >> some concerning. >> my finger got smashed under a canoe, it was extra huge and then it turned green, but then the guy put acid on it, i exploded with pus. >> others casually horrifying. >> this is, ps. >> ps the rival teacher from last year got fired for inhaling crack at camp. he also went to jail. >> and a few desperate and exhausting. >> everything is bad, i want our money back. a lot of things are wrong and we have been crying. next page will tell some things that went wrong. >> weinstein meadowlark's camp director says not to worry. there is a pattern to camp letters that never really changes. >> you might see oh, my god pick me up, i can't stand it here the first night, it is cold, there is a spider and then it goes from, well, you know i still want to come home, but my counselor is kind of nice. then the next one would be i met somebody from philadelphia and she is really cool, an and deand the spied search gone and the sun is out. >> the spider is gone and the sun is out. >> eventually, the letters always become more up beat. even in the toughest cases. >> dear mom, it is a lot better. the rash on me competent miss is gone and now i can run, love, josh. >> mom, not as bad as i said but it is pretty bad. still cold and everything and kids are becoming nicer. my counselor is solving some problems by visiting day my parents couldn't drag me away and i wound up going back for the next four years and i met some great lifelong friends there. so i wouldn't have traded it for the world. >> it is such a great right of passage, they get this down on paper, they move on, we are left at home to quake in the wake of their words a little bit, but they have moved past it but you are left with some, you know, genuine my layer at this. >> clearly these correspondents don't quite comprehend the significance of these moments they are creating keepsakes, heirlooms, historic family documents that will be read and reread for years to come. .. . >> osgood: almost like clockwork whenever we open our mailbox we find a letter on yellow live paper from nancy and edwards from south jordan utah, thank you for your great show about animals they wrote us a few weeks ago, love, bill geist and his goldfish rusty. well, we appreciate our loyal viewers too and he want to salute nancy and warren who have been watching and writing for the last 20 years or so and just recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. now we go back to ames, iowa and lauren o'donnell who is filling in for bill shiver or good the nation. >> coming up we have the winner of the iowa straw poll michele bachmann, it is leader of the democratic party and head of the democratic national committee, congresswoman debbie wassermann schultz, charlie. >> thank you, for remarks we will be watching. >> and next week here on sunday morning -- >> it is a beautiful garden. >> isn't it great? >> her name is barbara, barbra streisand that is and she will be talking to our bill whitaker. >> here we feel like we are always on vacation. sunday morning's moment of nature is sponsored by spiriva handy haler. >> osgood: we leave you this sunday morning at the great swamp national wildlife refuge in new jersey. >> osgood: i am charles osgood, please join us again next sunday morning. until then, i will see you on the radio. captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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