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In our cover story, Ted Koppel visits a North Carolina town that has fashioned itself as a real-life Mayberry, from "The Andy Griffith Show." Plus: Tracy Smith profiles actor James Brolin; Mo Rocca sits down with Anderson Cooper to discuss his new book on the family history of the Vanderbilts; Martha Teichner finds out how dialogue coaches put the accent on an actor's performance; Serena Altschul and Lee Cowan check out new offerings at museums and multiplexes this fall; and John Blackstone examines the late artist Christo's posthumous project – a wrapped Arc de Triomphe.

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Let's partner for all of it. Learn more@edwardjones.com morning I'm jingling and this is Sunday morning with a time not so very long ago when America was a kinder gentler place where neighbor looked out for neighbor and we lived together in prosperity and peace.

Or so we remember it and one town seemed to sum things up pretty neatly, even if only on television. So whatever happened to Mayberry Ted Koppel this morning takes us to the place where that spirit, real or imagined lives on those grounds are really of course this is just a replica of a holy war. Insert four of television insurers went off the air. More than 50 years ago. So what is good catch tourists flocking well there in North Carolina by the hundreds of thousands every year.

On Sunday morning as an award-winning reporter. Anderson Cooper is spent much of his life digging for the facts, searching for the truth but as morocco will tell us it's only recently that Anderson Cooper turned the spotlight on himself and his illustrious family Anderson Cooper's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt Psion of America's once wealthiest family growing up. Cooper knew little about his mother's forebears when you're a kid your father showed you the statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt. I was six or seven years old. The only I remember coming away from it was believing that all grandparents turned into statures when they died. Anderson Cooper's family history later on Sunday morning and then on to Hollywood. James Brolin has been a serious actor for more than half a century, but as our Tracy Smith discovers the one thing he doesn't take too seriously, is himself had a life. Many would envy you all for coming to merger but James Brolin says there's always room for improvement. I'm shocked of drones is losing Florida right there you see that one no, you look great. So what you think are best known for sleeping room. The Brolin family patriarch on life, love, and longevity coming up this Sunday morning, but a skateboard.

God bless you. The enemies are tonight here on CBS proof positive. The new season is in full swing. Perfect timing for Martha Tice news report on dialect coaches. The people who make certain actors know whereof they speak, and more. It's Sunday morning for 19 September 2021 will be back right after this wax nostalgic about the good old days when life was simpler, more neighborly, civilized, Koppel starts us off this morning with a visit to the real-life counterpart of the town. Most of us knew only one television show Bush or his little boy old fishing along the outskirts of Maybury, North Carolina were actually strolling along a black loft in Culver City, California, Howard Hughes, the actor who played Opie is no Hollywood stalk directors. Most of the other stores with those Knox who played Barney Fife and the actors who played for the barber stall was 53 years since the show was canceled so it may come as something of a surprise to learn the Mayberry is doing just fine.

Those are true name is mild.

It's only genuine link to the Griffin show is good and it was on grew up here.lesson if he had not been born in this particular hotel, we wouldn't be standing here having that conversation. Randy Collins is Pres. and CEO of the motor area Chamber of Commerce and is recalling when North Carolina's tobacco textile industries.

Stuffing knocked out after the mills closed. I think a lot of the town fathers and the business owners got together and said hey what about this Mayberry thing. Maybe we can do something with businesses were born or reinvented in some bizarre went almost a year, 50 years. Yes sir capture the reality of the trip Mayberry is fictitious.

Most everyone knows that except maybe some of the rabid fans show they believe it's real, then the tone is doing a whole lot to undermine the illusion stop by Wally's filling station you can get a ride around town vintage Ford galaxy squad car stays as a whole once a month or so Lynn played Barney Fife's girlfriend Thelma Lou was brought from a nearby retirement home to the Andy Griffith Museum close appreciative fans lineup for autograph week are constantly looking at other ways that we can promote the community because we know the Mayberry generation won't be here forever, but that was streaming television and he will be forever with us and we hope the younger generation will pick up a few extra family from Ohio showed no exaggeration to say that this week creation versions for the Fosters being a national monument you watch the Griffin show four hours a day early morning free. The after a month or two of watching four hours or more a day that you're going to turn his little brain out like a clean clean comedy has morals, values. We'll see that a lot today down Main Street where tourists become the florets barbershop rebel snappy loan. Generations now long for the next episode being real with the song about stealing or doing the right thing and got society that we see today. Longing for neighbor's use of certain if you were black 60s, things were not actually happen during these years for this world seems to work in Dallas, Texas/Kennedy died 1 PM line kill those things inside Maybury's case very important week when this which is why it's strange to find so many people half a century later, searching for what great toe and is Randy Collins.

The Chamber of Commerce acknowledges African-Americans were all but invisible Griffith show.

There were very few speaking parts one. If you watch closely in the crowd scenes. I think Andy and others on the show push to make sure that there were people of color in the crowds Look closely is in her 90s. She and her younger brother and sister rolled only here this and returned to move back here 1973, so we wanted a sandwich and we went in here and down Main Street and they sent us, but we had a wooden lecture said right even in 1973 yes or little better after Bobby's schedules. Also, born and raised in Mount Airy is a clear memory of race relations in the 60s, black with a blow what's new with everything were segregated. Lynn skills Thompson is Bobby skills twin.

In making this program it with four basically the white population. She believes she understands the ongoing popularity of the program. It's appealing to people who are not familiar with small town and what Andy has projected is a quiet, peaceful town with everybody happy.

The piece Mayberry, Mount Airy good place to live. It's a good place if it were not home.

I would not be here on rep for your home is where you make yet another newborn in the memory and family members are mostly memories being treated as lesser.

Why would you want to stay well. I have wasn't treated as a lesson in my family. I have plenty family history. Our property is there memories of childhood is still very strong and very satisfied being retired in place where I grew up somehow Mount Airy becomes more complex with each conversation. The theory is, please see reality intersect. If I wave the political thermometer for people who believe Joe Biden's question, our former president had lost 40 if you took a poll that would probably not lean in our current president's favor is for 20 bucks a pop sometimes during the deputy's uniform and Elvis impersonator was unexplained as well as the entire crew from CBS Sunday morning, you came here.

Just ask your curiosity you think we have a fair election. I saw two hands go up. So it is fair to say the rest of you, there was not a fair election, question serious?

No. You all will take pictures tell me what you think happened on January 6 at Congress for this and that's how that's useful. Writer blamed.

He was in the distant everybody there direction now is not the direction will be offended journalist all my life. When Pres. from thought about the press being the show so you when the script was written in Hollywood. That's the way it was wherever you come from your accent often gives you a way and can be really tough to lose, but if you're an actor. Martha Tyson tells us learning and accent can be even harder.

Kate Winslet's Emmy nominated performance in HBO's mayor of East town is so good you could be fooled into thinking she really has a Delaware County Pennsylvania accent to Tommy station life but you would be a feeling of wanting to print something that I just always want to be doing this job and if you thought 2021 winner Daniel actually said like red and Judas and the Black Messiah copy protection.

Wrong again in this day and age stars even be considered if they failed to nail their characters accents. Please come forward. So how did they pull it off my mama mama mama no no no okay. Chances are they work with someone like Woods.

One of Hollywood's small inner circle of 20 or so A-list dialect coaches Q Kelly Kim Kim here Woods is preparing summary of Pfeiffer for her starring role in an upcoming Tyler Perry film for Netflix called a jazz man's blues for every sounding language. There is a symbol like there's a note to music.

So if you know how to notate what people are saying if you learn the system topology then you can notate what people are saying she's talking about this. The International phonetic alphabet. It symbols incomprehensible to most people but a key to the DNA of any dialect or accent. A voice coach has to reproduce need yet we have so many boxes that we check when we hear someone speak for the first time and so what I do when I work with the actors is I learn the dialect happy. Where does she find examples.

My first resource is YouTube and it's it's my dream source yet is not as close here are a couple of the voices. Denise Woods used coach so that model. I won't hold that whole locating samples. Dialects can be tricky when you get back to work bringing slaves to freedom. I was the dialect coach on Harriet Harriet starring said Reva. We have samples in the Library of Congress of slave narratives. They are really authentic to the. Authentic, that is not a word anyone would use to describe or speak in the early decades of talkies singing in the rain isn't just about Gene Kelly dancing. It's about stars speaking and I can't stand him. So, Hollywood studios made up dialect that came to be called mid Atlantic no one lives in the middle of the Atlantic. You know how the US and UK Samara Bay is another top-tier dialect coach to the stars wasn't supposed to be aspirational is totally aspirational.

Absolutely Hollywood as a untouchable glamorous place back that was helping sustain what happened.

So with language. I am butchering you for one thing, Sophie's choice, Meryl Streep's correct Polish flared with German accent in the 1982 film piping make me think of my father epitomized changing Hollywood universe increasingly and did like dialect coaches.

I like to think of dialect coaching design elements of the same.

When we think about custom design or that were in the soundscape. The question is what is the accent and how is it helping tell the story. Maybe that was just made it Samara Bay Canadian actor Rachel McAdams her Icelandic accent for the 2020 film your vision song contest for space for homework included dissecting the speech of Icelandic singer Bjork is a lot more scrutiny and I will have responsibility you do right by her characters.

Oh my, yes, but can she make me sound Icelandic people so all you music like folk music spoke for beautiful always prefer to call pop music like full music because it's the music of the people. No word in my future. I suspect, but it cost him designers and makeup artists.

When enemies is time dialect coaches get some recognition really well done Barry mar all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout to his knees and each episode weakly got all the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well maybe you do to new interior design trying Harvey Carr to the right and wrong way to wash her also getting the things that you just kind of probably not able to do in daytime television. So watch out what ever you get your podcast on the sure sign of improving times museums are reopening across the country. We asked Serena Altschuler to preview a few of the best new shows of the new season and she begins a new museum guaranteed to be a box office smash, but there's always a new girl this fall may just be CM of motion pictures signed by architect Jan L cost $400 million already turning heads on September 30 and are you ready to open's already. I am so ready to open this museum. Bill Kramer is the museum's president and director the Academy is 13 million items in our collection scripts, photographs, costumes, props, storyboards, personal collections, we are drawing from that collection were also securing loans from collectors Steven Spielberg loaning us Rosebud doesn't get better than the museum is filled with artifacts from the familiar like Dorothy's ruby slippers NDT to less recognizable pieces like this right.

Fittingly, the building also has two theaters which will show movies daily museum seems like a perfect fit for Los Angeles but it's one that waited nearly a century for its close-up. The Academy was founded in 1927 and in 1929 at a board meeting, the founders of the Academy stated that they needed to build a film museum and almost took a century to century in this iteration, launched in 2011. It's diverse it's inclusive, it's equitable, but it represents film history, I think, and a truer more accurate way of my coming attraction. There's plenty of hard to see all around the country, Jasper Johns, for example, will be the subject of an unprecedented show taking place simultaneously both the Whitney Museum of American Art nor the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Other noteworthy retrospectives include Judy Chicago exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco and Barbara Kruger, Art Institute of Chicago on the East Coast Brooklyn dressed to the nines with a Christian DR exhibit and Museum of fine arts Boston stays cozy with some unique we would also like to wish a happy 10th birthday Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and anniversary giving us all yet another reason to celebrate. I returned to museums this fall. You happen 66, nearly 60 years after his big screen debut in the Sandra D comedy take her she's mine actor James Brolin is still going strong. He's in conversation with our Tracy Smith how much time you spend all this is a lot okay you really have to see this place to believe it.

With the custom-made Milhouse oh so perfect on it looks like some kind of movies that, but it's really James Brolin Malibu backyard.

This is, he says most of the credit goes to his wife of 23 years, Barbra Streisand, all the flowers are in that exact spot she design everything is working and you might say another job, something extraordinary suite to Netflix series about apocalyptic world hybrid animal people terrifying and winter. The boy was now the man Brolin is the show's narrator reassuring voice when everything seems to be going to hell, but it took a while to get it right the first day of any job with the cold calling. The collie wobbles just like these people am not sure if I should take a job where are we to know I got a plane ticket so second day then you read. Seems he's been in for most of his life called James Brolin – highly Marcus will she's old enough to die and I'm old enough to tell her so Brolin did well on Welby so well in fact that he earned an and that was just for the pilot.

So how did life change by the 60 we were number one. We stayed there all year was changed to her dressing room and there'd be better dressing rooms to come along in series like hotel start and directed movies like 1979 the Amityville horror. Then there's the one that got away a lot of may not. James almost James Bond. I have the job. I literally Roger Moore said he would do anymore screen test even learned a James Bond movie or two after that nothing will you still are well.

I had little trouble with line we heard through someone else that Roger had decided to do one more that was Octopussy could've been fun. No, what you tell yourself when things like that happen.

Stuff happens in life happens to Brolin has three children. His eldest son Josh was born in 1968 case. Apple didn't fall too far from the tree as your father ever personally.

No need to to appeal to them to strike others what is it like for you dad to see the success that had well right but if you didn't have any success in the same city you get out the water but not with the board more elder Brolin is one now know really is also a highly qualified pilot and a former pro racecar driver get on the racetrack much anymore but he still more active than some people half his age, but a skateboard. God bless you, and he's the first to admit that meeting his wife best thing that ever happened to been married 23 years. What's the key to a long marriage, negotiation, sink, kindness usually a referee is good, which means they marriage counselor or somebody that you know the comes over and talk soon as you talk you talk we've done well in public to sometimes look like an abstract that he says it that way since they were first dating I went off to a location in the Philippines and I would call her this was before cell phones.

I think I spent every Nicholas made on this movie because we would be on from 3 to 5 hours on the phone 3505 hour call five dollars minutes from the Philippines. Oh my goodness, what were you talking about just teenage crap like a teenager I could almost feel her lying on her bed honors with your feet up to anyway. So when I got home we were we felt quite close to kind of feel like I'm sitting well salt and talk about real along with sweet tooth. Brolin has three new projects on the way to sense that maybe his best work is still ahead. Do you think about legacy will you know what I got to do is still going to happen if it does in others. I haven't done the thing that makes legacies yet and I may never I'm open and optimistic about everything always, but I feel like I was part of me that's been also ran all these horses are running and there's the winter. And then there's the also ran out of the almost made it as a party still feels that that I've got something to do or didn't do something or even maybe the bond thing happen, something minor changes from that one film you know but don't mistake his wistfulness for regret.

James Brolin loves what he does and just wants to do more. I never felt like I'm ready to move on to the next best thing.

My favorite days have been at work in the days my kids were born. The days I was married every day at work is been just gold to me. What I sent you for your soul makes me miss it right now here we are talking wasting time.

You know him from television. But Anderson Cooper is also an author and his latest book is about his family. A family with the name once synonymous with the word wealth he talks with Alamo Rocca about the rise and fall of the Vanderbilts soul. This is this just a small amount of white stuff for my mom storage and it's for the past 15 years. She and an anchor and 60 minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper has been sorting through his mother's treasures. She was a completely different person. Cooper's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt designer jeans and as the so-called poor little rich girl at the center of an infamous Depression-era custody battle between her own mother also named Gloria and aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney yet this I just found recently.

This was long daily news July 4 35 four… Child. This is her. She's the mother. My son is right now.

This is the day her father died. She is with her second.

He's my grandfather it's it's crazy completely is another world, another world where the Vanderbilt name was synonymous with enormous wealth and privilege. I mean, the Cooper says he didn't want to be associated with.

I felt like no good can come of me paying attention.

The Vanderbilts seems kind of likely about I knew they had all these houses and they were museums. Now it had no reality in my life after his mother's death in 2019 and then the birth of his son Wyatt in 2020.

Cooper decided to delve into the side of his family history in a new book, the Vanderbilts came to the New World from Holland in the 17th century. The first generations here were farmers living when I started doing research on the book. I had no idea that the, or live right here. Then came Cornelius a.k.a. the Commodore was a really extraordinary person. He grew up on a farm in Staten Island. Cornelius left school at age 11 and made his first fortune in shipping he built from one small little boat moving supplies. He built an empire of steamships steamships are basically just the first chapter of his career right with some crazy people to massive empire. It was late in life when he decided steamships for the past and railroads for the future and he started buying up small railroads around the Northeast and eventually formed a railroad company that basically was being all rail service on the eastern seaboard to Chicago. Yet Cooper also discovered some unflattering aspects of his great great-great-grandfather's character when I read that you described as avaricious and penniless.

That's one will actually started out thinking maybe he was a psychopath, which then I came away after doing a lot of research on, you know that's a little harsh, like who can say really mean in someone's mind. No MRI but he himself said he did have a mania for money and other people describe it as pathology. I do think it was the sole reason for being.

The Commodore died in 1877 Damascus $100 million in more money than US treasury.

One out of every $20 in circulation belonged to the Vanderbilts 1885 the Commodore son William Henry managed to more than double family coffers to about $230 million close to 6.5 billion in today's dollars, but it was the next generation of Vanderbilts whose ambitions had nothing to do with making money. Second, and his brother will Vanderbilt their wives decide to get the Vanderbilts to take over New York society and then the spending begins the spigots returned on and the spending begins craving respectability. This generation of wealthy Vanderbilts spent lavishly on mansions that dotted Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and palatial summer cottages in Newport, Rhode Island pop quiz. What was the Vanderbilt families least favorite constitutional amendment anything to do with taxes.

The 16th amendment to the Constitution ushered in the federal income tax in 1913 estate and inheritance taxes soon followed but the Vanderbilts spending habits continued unabated. I view the money as a pathology that infected subsequent generations because I think they all grew up with this idea that there would always be money and there was no need for them to actually work when Cooper's mother Gloria was born in 1924. Her inheritance was much diminished and she was given little guidance on how to maintain it. This book help me understand my mom in ways I never really even imagine because once you see the world. She was born into and the life. Her father led and that the wife her mother dreamed of leading the way through grandfather with you. See why it was that she no grew up just spending money and thinking nothing of it.

In 1978 Cooper's father Wyatt died from the time I was a kid I view myself as my mom's protect rep… 10. My mom was a remarkable lady but I knew she did not have a plan and she never had a plan when it came to money matters.

Anderson assumed an almost parental role with his own mother and I would talk to her you know 13 about you know there's there's you can get a bank account should put money in savings and saving money is making money and just stupid things I'd read about you would say that. 13 she just never had a plan. She just felt like I once heard. I think I was like 14 or 15 I remember was going to search the house.

I heard her on the phone saying to a friend of hers will always be able to make money. I remember stopping and freezing heard that and thinking we are doing and that for me was a huge factor in I just I started working as much as I could. I so I got a job as a child model is your 1314 there's not a lot you can actually do you Vanderbilt did make her own fortunes with those genes, but Anderson Cooper never stopped working on Anderson Cooper work for me has been breaking thing which has gotten every work has always been the one constant in my life time I was going working as a child model the kid was something that was reliable that help me calm myself and you know that I was building a foundation of for a life life that now includes his son, 16 month old Wyatt, to whom the book is dedicated. I thought I would write a book for my son. That kind of explains part of his past for his family's past and it's an honest view. I think at this remarkable family which remarkable in good ways and also thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning and crazy to the point is, when people in the best way to protect people final season Millstream