captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> charles: good morning. i'm charles ox*l osgood and thi >> don't do the crime, if you don't do the time. >> but what if it's hard time, a mandatory sentence without any possibility of leniency or discretion by the judge? is that always fair. adam moriarity will look at

such a case. >> i sit next to the do guys. thi. man fired a warning shot to protect his family. you won't believe what happened next. >> i couldn't believe it. i could not believe it. >> mandatory minimum sentencing. when it works and when it doesn't ahead on sunday morning. >> charles: in the theatre it's considered bad luck to say break a leg. the actors have plenty to say off stage about their production this morning, and they'll be saying it to lesley stahl. >> it's only a play. one of the hottest tickets on broadway this season. >> there he is, america's oldest living promising playwright. >> you are in a wonderful position, because the play is already a hit. >> don't say that. don't talk about that.

>> we hid back stage with the all-star cast later on sunday morning. >> charles: billy idol is a rock star with a memorable stage time, and a story to go with it. we'll share it with tracey smith. >> reporter: after nearly 40 years of road triping and drug tripping, you'd think there'd be things billy idol would like to forget. instead he write its down you bare all in this book i dare say? >> yes. come naked. >> reporter: ahead this sunday morning, billy idol. real, rockin' out. >> charles: the best selling novel, gone girl has gone hollywood, and unlike the story's central character, the creator of the character is

among us, and talking about how it all came to past. >> moped it up. >> why mop up the blood to stage a crime scene. >> gone girl is such a dark and twisted tale. there's only one question to ask the author and screenwriter. what's a nice girl like you doing writing stories like this? >> i do that a lot. i feel like i spend the first 15 minutes of any cocktail party reassuring i'm not going to hurt them. >> reporter: later on sunday morning, the twisted world of gillian flynn. >> charles: and the mysteries of the court. steve hartman introduces us to a nurse who takes work home with him. a word for people watching video games. the 5th of october, 2014.

>> fearing a case of ebola they ordered a man off the plane. the man tested negative for the disease. in dallas, they say the first patient diagnosed with ebola in this country has taken a turn for the worse. thomas eric duncan who was admitted to the presbyterian hospital is now said to be in critical condition. the parents of american aid worker and former army ranger peter cassie released a video pleading with the islamic state to spare his life. >> grant freedom so we can hug you again. >> cassie is the liteest hostage isis is threatening to kill in retaliation for american airstrikes. jean do you have d duvalier kno

doc died of a heart attack at 63. his regime sent an uprising that sent in into exile in return. duvalier made a return to haiti, and his father was the man they called papa doc. a record breaking play-off game in the nation's capitol. it took 18 innings, six and a half hours and one huge homer belted by the san francisco giants to beat the washington nationals 2-1. now for today's weather. fall settles in as cool air spreads from the midwest to the northeast, but california will sweat it out with triple digit heat. in the week ahead, showers will move into the northeast and south, and we'll warm up in the nation's mid-section. next, crime. >> i protected my family, and

i didn't even hurt anybody. >> charles: and punishment? and later, from bark to bottle.

>> charles: prison time is hard time, any way you look at it. but it's hardest of all when the prison ser serving a sentence that allows no flexibility no matter the circumstances. the cover story is reported

now. >> we tried calling the cops. we tried everything. nothing worked. >> reporter: after hearing lee wollard's story. you think he did what any family man will do or agree with the florida jury and think he went too far, but either way, you're likely to wonder, does wollard's punishment really fit the crime. >> never in my wildest dreams did i think that i would be here. i still have a hard time believing it. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: the troubles began six years ago. he was a professional with a masters degree in davenport, florida living with his wife and two daughters, working at sea world. when his youngest daughter sarah began dating a 17-year-old troubled teenager with no place to live. wollard and his wife sandy took him in.

>> someone needs help, you help them. >> for about a week. >> it started out his behavior was fine. i'd ask him to take the garbage out or clear off the table, and it was yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am. >> but sandy wollard sades the relationship with the boy who we agreed not to identify soured. >> this young man was taking my daughter out at night after we had put her to bed and we had gone to bed, and he was disappearing with her. he would disappear for days at a time with her. she's 16 years old. >> reporter: the wollards asked him to leave, but nothing kept him out of the house until may 14th, 2008. as lee was taking a nap, his daughter and her boyfriend began to fight. >> you heard a loud noise? >> yeah, like you were throwing stuff against the wall, like a --

>> reporter: and then came cries for help. >> what did you think? >> i had no idea, so i grabbed by 357 and loaded with shells. >> reporter: that's a large gun. >> yeah. >> reporter: according to wol ordera the young man lunged at him and punched this hole in the wall. the teenager disputes that, but no one disagrees what happened next. >> so i fired a shot into the wall, and i said the next one is between the eyes. >> the kid turned around and hurried out the door and that was the end of that. >> not quite, wollard was charged with shooting into a building with a firearm, aggravated assault and child endangerment. when he went on trial a year later, a jury convicted him of all charges, and then judge donald jacobson sentenced him.

>> you sentenced him to how long? >> 20 years in florida state prison which is the mandatory minimum. >> reporter: 20 years. >> that means he will serve every day of 20 years in state prison. >> i was just like what? the blood just drained out of my head. i almost passed out. >> reporter: it didn't matter that lee wollard was a first offender or no one was hurt in florida it rules an automatic 20 years. that's the mandatory minimum sentence. >> i looked at him and told him that i would not be sentencing you to this term of incarceration if it were not for the fact they was obligated as a judge to do so. >> reporter: that had to be difficult. >> being a judge is difficult. >> reporter: wollard's case is just one of thousands in this

country. most involving drug offenses, in which the punishment is determined by mandatory sentencing laws, laws created by legislators who strip away power from judges they believe to be too lenient and give it instead to prosecutors. >> it's an invaluable tool for prosecutors in law enforcement to use because it gives us leverage. >> running the association of prosecuting attorneys in washington, d.c. he says that defendants when faced with harsh mandatory sentences are more likely to negotiate a plea bargain avoiding lengthy costly trials, and the sentences is more fair, he says. but is it really. when you have these mandatory minimum sentences are you treating the violent career criminals the same way as you're treating the first offenders, non-violent that get the same sentence? >> but justice is blind.

so it doesn't marry what status you are in society. if you commit these crimes, the elements of the crime, blind justice will charge you with that, and you should receive equal sentence just as anybody else who committed that same crime. >> reporter: that was the thinking in the late 1980s when mandatory sentencing became a popular tough on crime tool as part of the government's war on drugs. locking away not just drug dealers, but often their customers, many young first offenders. >> it seemed contrary to everything i learned in civics 101, that judges can't judge now when the crimes carry mandatory minimum sentences. >> julie stewart started families against mandatory minimums. she sades lee wollard's 20 year sentence isn't unusual as you think. take the case of weldon an'gelos, a music producer

with no previous record, who in 2004 was sentenceed to 55 years in prison for selling marijuana worth $350 to undercover cops who find a firearm in his possession. >> i'm not a criminal. >> reporter: and 19-year-old first time offender jacobula voro in texas. facing 20 years in prison after getting caught with a tray of hash brownies. >> shouldn't go to prison. whether you like the law or not it exists. if you violate there's a consequence. we say the judge should be able to determine what the punishment is, not a legislator, not a prosecutor. >> reporter: stewart blames mandatory sentencing for prison overcrowding. since 1980 the average sentence for drug trafficking doubled from four years to nine and a half. and even steven janssen says

sometimes the wrong people are incarcerated. >> unofficial, you have situations where people who think they're innocent decide to go to trial instead of accepting a plea offer, and they end up receiving more severe sentence than what maybe a gang member or drug dealer would have taken. >> reporter: which is what happened to lee wollard. the prosecutor offered you probation, no jail sentence and you didn't take it. >> it never dawned on me i would be convicted because i didn't do anything wrong. i protected my family, and i didn't even hurt anybody. >> reporter: and wollard's sentence seems particularly harsh says his wife when you consider that in florida, if you happen to kill someone while standing your ground in self difference, you may face no charges at all. but if you shoot a warning shot just to scare them away, you'll get 20 years in prison. >> reporter: the polk county

state's attorney whose office prosecuted wollard refuseed to discuss the case. but there's a move to return some discretion to judges. earlier this year, federal sentencing guidelines were amended to reduce prison time, and the legislature passed a law that exempts firing warning shots from the current harsh penalties. but it comes too late for wollard. >> everything is gone. >> wollard has asked the florida governor for clemency, which incidentally his daughter's former boyfriend supports f. he doesn't get it. lee wollard will leave prison in july 2028 when he is 73 years old. >> if this is what the state of florida requires of you to make sure your family is safe, i'm willing to do it. it's a bargain. i've got three family members

two, daughters and a wife. and they're alive because of this. it's a bargain. 20 years is a bargain. >> coming up, the man.

>> charles: and now a page from the subpoena morning almanac. 25 years ago today. today the norwegian nobel committee announced it was awarding this year's peace prize to dalai lama, the political and spiritual leader to the people of tibet. he was born in 1935. buddhist leaders declared him while a young boy to be the reincarnation of the 13th dalai lama. >> the road was disrupted in 1959 when at the age of 23 chinese occupying troops forced him to flee tibet for exile in india. in the years that followed the dalai lama has steadfastly championed the tibetan cause and at the same time opposing resort to violence. instead, as the nobel committee emphasized, the dalai lama advocated peaceful

solutions based on mutual respect in order to preserve historical and cultural heritage of his people. [ applause ] the dol dalai lama accepted the peace prize. in the quarter century since, he has continueed to speak out for tibet. and for non-vile sxens tol rantion, earning the admiration of people of all faiths all around the world. the ceremony in india this past week marked the 25th anniversary of the peace prize. but what the future holds is in doubt. the dalai lama foreswore the political part of his role in 2011. and at age 79, he has questioned whether there should even be a dalai lama after he's gone.

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>> charles: putted a cork in it. that's how most wine makers seal their bottles. an age old practice whose defenders are fighting back against plastic newcomers. a post card from portugal. >> reporter: high in the mountains of portugal's algarve region, we find ourselves in what feels like a misty magic forest where ancient giants live, giant cork trees. a form of oak which has magical properties. >> i believe it is 150 years old. >> wow. >> that one over there i believe it's 4 to 500 years old. >> he's a businessman whose

family has owned his hillside for centuries. >> reporter: how old will a tree be when you start taking the cork? >> maybe 40 years. >> reporter: you heard right. 40 years. there's a saying in portugal that you plant cork trees for your grandchildren. so tell me how this works when you harvest cork? >> you make a cut, a straight cut vertical, and >> reporter: with a specially designed steel hatchet cutters slit the bark. between may and august the dark is cut, so when it's pried it comes off sometimes whole like a tube. here's where the magic comes in. the process doesn't kill the tree.

by law, cork can only be harvested every nine years. this tree was stripped in 2010. by 2019, the park will be more than an inch thick again. in many parts of the country, the trees are farmed like orchards. tourists can follow what's called the cork route. portugal produces 65% of the world's supply. you would be right to say ahh, that's where cork comes from. it exports a staggering 12 billion corks a year. you would also be right to say ahh, what about those plastic things and screw tops. before the year 2000, 9 out of 10 wine bottles were sealed

with a cork, now it's down to 7. >> we have a problem, >> reporter: antonio de rios amorim runs portugal's largest cork company founded in 1870 by his great grandfather. >> basically come out in the market saying that cork was faulty product. >> why? because of a condition called cork taint, a musty off taste that can occur in wine. although corks aren't the only cause, but talk about a wake up call. spending more than $300 million developing technology that all but eliminated the problem. the company now makers stoppers out of cork at all price ranges, from two cents apiece to the $2 apiece one that is go into expensive

wine. >> when you open a bottle of wine with cork, they know they are drinking a quality wine. when they are drinking a bottle of wine with a plastic, they're not sure of what type of wine. >> reporter: if the bottle of wine has a cork in it, you believe it's a better bottle of wine than a plastic? >> exactly. >> corks are still punched by hand. the human eye is still the best way to spot a reject. >> women, we're told are the best corkers, but technology and design are transforming an industry that heard the wake up call. suddenly, cork and and treaty are words used in the same sentence. >> it's the product -- >> reporter: yes, it's a cork

umbrella, made out of cork sliced so thin it's flexible and can be sown like fabric. sandra corraia calls it cork skin. >> you'd never dream. >> corraia started her company after the millenia when disappointing champagne sales left the family's cork business with a glut of raw materials. >> we needed to develop cork. it came from from the bark. on to something new, something that the world doesn't have. >> reporter: this does not look like cork. >> we wanted to make it more fashionable. and to make this, we want to reproduce the leather crocodile bags with cork. >> sandra now exports to the rest of europe and to the united states. not just her line of fashion accessories, but something

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and color. the more we give in to the magic of this place, the more we'd like to stay. oaxaca. live it to believe it. >> you got to the bar. >> i was at home, got a newspaper, and went to the beach. >> charles: ben affleck plays a husband suspected of killing his wife in gone girl. it's a best selling novel gone hollywood. in a bit of a twist, the novel's author is in the spotlight as well as we hear from rita braver. >> reporter: you don't expect to see the screenwriter getting selfies at a film

premiere. how often does a novelist with no film experience get to write her own screenplay. >> they say, oh, it's so cute. you did the screenplay, now go away forever. >> reporter: but no one is telling gillian flynn to go away. her 2012 blockbuster novel, gone girl has sold more than eight and a half million copies, and is well on the way to becoming a blockbuster film starring ben affleck as nick and amy dunne. >> i think you made it. >> what's your name? >> amy. >> reporter: so about giving anything away, how would you describe the story of gone

girl? >> a couple who on the surface look quite lovely, handsome and beautiful, and the wife goes missing on her five year wedding anniversary, and very quickly the husband becomes the source of media fascination and dissection. >> the hallmark of a sociopath is a lack of of empam aegts. >aegtsathy. impathy. >> are you trying to tell me that this photo is remotely -- >> reporter: it is a dark and twisted tale, and flynn says she always hoped that david fincher known for films such as girl with the dragon tattoo, and the social network would do it. >> the difference between facebook and everybody else, we don't crash ever. >> reporter: behind the surfaces and underneath the psychology. >> did you have the same casting. >> from the beginning i was like ben affleck.

it has got to be ben affleck. >> i didn't know that. she's probably a revisionist. it's got to be brad pitt. it's got to be ben affleck. >> reporter: but neither aflec or director david finch ser joking about the screenplay produced. >> it's a good script. it's simple as well. gillian writes like an artist. she's that 13-year-old girl with a bucket of pop corn in her lap watching the movie. >> reporter: much of the film turns on whether you believe nick dunne is a killer. >> you seem pretty laid back. type b, speaking of which -- >> vito look it up. >> you don't know what she does all day, and you don't know -- >> are you sure you were married? >> why did you take the part? >> because i thought the character was really

interesting. when you get a play a part with a guy you don't know how much you respect this person -- how much you're going to judge this person, how comfortable you are with this person, it's playing a character lead. and that's what gillian wrote. >> amy told me she dumped you, and you completely unraveled. you stalked her, and threatened her, and attempted suicide in her bed and were institutionalized. >> gillian flynn now 43 grew up in kansas city, lives in chicago and sets her books in the midwest. a midwest so sinister that readers are spriedsed when they see her in person. >> i think sometimes they are disapointed because i'm not nearly as freaky and weird as they hope i'm going to be. >> reporter: she's the daughter of two community college professors. her mother taught reading. her father taught film.

because your dad taught film, you saw a lot of age inappropriate movies. you have a distinct thrilling memory of him, and psycho, and the vcrs. >> reporter: after getting a masters degree in journalism, flynn landed a job as a reporter for entertainment weekly and started writing novels on the side. >> you've always been interested in women who have some kind of dark or even >> not really. >> what's interesting about that? >> i think women have just as much issues with aggression and anger. i just think they express differently than men do, and i felt like that was something that -- >> reporter: the sounding board is her husband, attorney brett knolland. they married in 2007. did you find yourself saying

where did you get this idea? >> the only time i paused was gone girl. the first time i -- the first draft i read of that. all right. maybe there is something. we need to talk. >> called me at work. >> what did he say? >> he said sleep with one eye open. >> reporter: now the parents twof children, they say the story of nick and amy dunne is a cautionary tale for couples who start to grow apart. >> you can't go on. >> it's not good enough for you. >> it's two selfish people, and they don't share because they can't for different reasons. that's why they grow into their own separate spheres. >> now your wife is a world famous writer. what impact is that for you? >> nothing much, frankly. i think our marriage is still the same as it was before gone girl came out.

>> it wasn' was great before go girl and still is great. >> reporter: they're working on a new home, and gillian is working on a new tv series, and fans are waiting for her next book. >> the stakes are higher now. >> what i say is there's never going to be another gone girl for me. i think i'll write other good books. i have faith in that, but i have to accept the fact that this is a great fantastic moment that will never come again. enjoy it while it lasts. >> charles: ahead, oh, baby.

>> charles: it happened just this past week in sweden. a medical first that holds the promise of helping thousands of women around the world. doctors at the university of gottenberg announced a 36-year-old birth to a baby boy after receiving a transplanted womb. the new mother born without a uterus is one of nine women who underwent the operation. the procedure involves removing a uterus from a donor, placing it on ice, flushing it with preservatives and then implanting it in the

hopeful mother to be. remarkably enough in the case of the woman wo gave birlgt, the donor was a 61-year-old family friend who had already gone through menopause. after making sure all it well, the doctors placed an embryo createed in a lab did she with the mother's egg and the father's sperm. the parents have asked they not be identified. they have released a baby picture, and told us the name. it's vincent, chosen because it means to conquer. and this may not be the end of the birth announcements. there are two other womb pregnancies at least 25 weeks along. >> will the review matter? >> don't say that. >> what are you trying to do to it. >> charles: just ahead. the curtain going on with

lesley stahl and

>> charles: to hear actors break a leg is nothing new. the actors break their silence on and off stage about the critics who will be reviewing their show is something else again. here's lesley stahl of 60 minutes. >> reporter: ever wonder what's going on behind closed doors just before the curtain goes up at a broadway show? >> it's 40 minutes before the opening. >> yes. >> do you still get nervous? >> oh, yeah. >> you do? >> kind of nervous. gets your blood up. it's hard to believe after 53 years. >> past the bar. >> reporter: as the audience is arriving, award winning theatre, film and television shore, f. murray abraham turns the stage into a workout

studio. >> reporter: what are you doing? >> physical exercises much stretches, push-ups, sit-ups. >> reporter: really? >> yeah, and then vocalize. and i do it with the audience in mind, i can hear them. >> reporter: backstage, fellow cast members and broadway hit, tony winner, faith an lane, and newcomer mica stock run through the opening scene. >> are you in the business? >> no, sir. i didn't mean to pry. so you're an unemployed actor. >> i'm an actor. >> reporter: on this day the show's four time tony winning playwright karen mcnally. >> you laughed all the way >> a big fan of the work. >> there's no going back. >> reporter: lane says he and stock will probably do is this

before every show for good luck. most of the actors have superstitions and tricks to chase away the butterflies and demons. we asked one of them, the star of the harry potter movie, and tony winning stage and screen stars, matthew broderick, and channing. >> i don't. >> you remember the show? >>reporter: due still get nervous? >> yes. >> reporter: every night? >> yeah, always on the first entrance. [ applause ] >> reporter: boy, it doesn't show. you come bounding out there. >> it's the first line. >> reporter: one of the many roars of laughter in the show.

this entire run is already nearly sold out. >> waiting for ben brantly and what tonight is all about. who cares what a non-entity like me thinks. >> it's a play about a play. or precisely, a play about the review of a play. >> this is exciting. can we do a selfy first. >> reporter: it takes place in the upstairs bedroom at the opening night party. a group of narcissists back bite and gossip waiting anxiously for the critics verdict. >> i love him, i love him. >> oh. i wish i had a camera. >> broderick's character is the playwright. lane plays an actor and his best friend. >> i don't think it's like our relationship is exactly -- our relationship is familiar to me. i have a friend like that. i have an actual writer friend, a best friend. >> it's going to be the biggest hit on broadway since

god knows when. >> god knows when? oh! >> reporter: the play's ditzy producer is played. >> i'm supposed to be getting lady gaga her coat. >> reporter: an aspiring actor is there to check coats. >> and grint is the hot new director. and chaning is the drug addicted actress. >> he reminds me of nothing so much as a female impersonator and such a female to impersonate. >> and abraham is an infamously cruel critic. >> you changed your name. >> after all of you, i change my face. >> you know here's the thing. it's a little dangerous to play. people don't like to talk about it. they don't want to talk about reviews at all. you only get in trouble when you talk about critics. we've entered into the

forbidden zone. >> reporter: the whole play? >> the whole play is forbidden. >> reporter: i wonder how a critic can criticize it. >> especially certain critics. >> reporter: particular critics. >> if you can't give unanimous raves -- >> reporter: in the play, they're waiting for the review by the "new york times" chief critic, and they say his name, ben brantly. the actual critic. >> i know. >> reporter: pretty bold. do you think they'll send him to review the play? >> i would think, unless he feels he's involved in the play. who knows. >> reporter: opening night of it's only a play approaches, there's a sention of life imitating art. >> this is a scary time waiting for reviews, just like what happens in the play. this is really happening. >> it's going to be hard. >> reporter: you are in a

wonderful position, because the play is already a hit. >> don't say that. >> don't talk about it. you shouldn't be saying that. >> reporter: i guess what i'm asking in light of the fact that it is basically sold out already, will the review matter? >> don't say that either, leslie. what are you trying to do to us. >> it's a good point, i think, they don't want to say either. but if people bought tickets, in some ways that's good news. >> it means that the audience is enjoying it, and it's a word of mouth play. we're doing our jobs, in that we're bringing -- >> reporter: have any of you been in a play where -- >> we are entertaining the audience right now. >> reporter: have any of you been in a play where the opening night review was a

downer, and the play closed. that was it? >> my broadway debut. it was called no hard feelings. çlaughterñ i know, it's true. >> it actually happened, and it closed in one night. >> rita moreno in a turban. >> reporter: part of what makes it's only a play so funny are all the shots at real people. >> see the face when introduced at theatre of error. çlaughterñ >> this is a naughty play, which is interesting, because i've never heard so many people gasp or go whoo when things are said. >> reporter: when you know that the person who is the butt of the joke is in the audience, does that change

anything? >> i wouldn't want to know faye dunaway is in the audience. >> i know she used to be good. she was wonderful. that was faye dunaway. >> reporter: what would -- do you pull the punch? >> no, you've got to do the play. >> barbara streisand was stopped -- çlaughterñ >> something about barbara. >> reporter: anything less wouldn't just disappoint audiences. >> something happened to barbara streisand! >> reporter: it would let down the cast. >> doesn't anybody care? >> i met this young lady one night. >> charles: still to come. >> billy idol. >> are you sober now? >> for the record, what did you say >> i said, can you take my son if i die. >> charles: the family affair.

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>> charles: sometimes the person appears. that's what happened to the woman steve hartman tells us up. >> reporter: claims to have seen anc angel after diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and admited to hospital in harrisburg, pennsylvania. she was recovering from a procedure here when in walked this nurse. >> observe she even said anything, i just felt comfort. it was almost like somebody put a warm blanket on me. >> reporter: that's quite a nurse. >> yes. i never saw anything like that before. never any other connection with anybody else. rx*ch this is that angel. >> i really enjoy the job. i really like it a lot. >> her name is tricia seaman. she's worked as a nurse for 15 years, and praised by many. no patient has ever given her

a greater compliment than trisha somers did. that happened on a subsequent trip to the hospital when leslie found out she might not see her birthday. the cans ser terminal. >> what do you say to somebody? she's frief years old. i just gave her a hug. she said. stopped n because i didn't think that i would get to see you again. i have something i need to ask you. >> i just asked her and burt blurted it out. i said can you take my son? will you raise him if i die? >>reporter: and she was completely serious. >> she was a stranger. >> reporter: it was a gut feeling. >> trisha's ex-husband is out of the picture and she had nobody to turn to which is why she asked her nurse, who after

consulting with her family agreed. not only to take in leslie, but his mom too. >> how you doing? since may, they've been living with the seamans. trisha, her husband, and their four children. >> we love her. >> i think she loves us like we love. >> reporter: without the generosity of this family. trisha somers would have spent final days in a nursing home, and who knows who would have happened to her son. >> they need to be together. >> reporter: that's more than she asked for? >> i know, but that's what we're supposeed to do. >> reporter: you talking as a nurse or as a person? >> as a person. >> reporter: an angel would know. >> yeah. >> i tried to be honest.

>> charles: rocky billy idol tells all.

it's sunday morning on cbc. here again is charles osgood. >> charles: rebel yell. that was a big hit for billy idol in 1983. he has plent tow say about those days in a new book just released by simon and schuster and has plent tow say to tracey smith for the record. >> reporter: in a perfectly generic building on an ordinary street, somewhere in los angeles, billy idol is getting ready for a new u.s. tour. and at a fit 58, he still looks like the bad boy rocker you watched on mtv.

in the 1980s, hotter. ♪hey, little sister ♪hey, little sister. ♪hey >> reporter: with the swagger and the hair, billy idol was practically made for tv. you have this trademark sneer, i guess is the best way to put it. where does that come from? is it just you? >> yeah. i think it's just my attitude, you know. you have to have one hell of an attitude to get anywhere in the music business in the world we came from. >> reporter: and with one of his videos running just about every hour, he quickly became a megastar on mtv and beyond. when you think billy idol music, what is that? >> the best of punk rock, the

best of rock'n'roll, and the best of everything, and somehow cross pollinating it into a bastard child, really. and the bastard child is my music. >> reporter: and a highly successful child. ♪it's a fantasy. >> reporter: throughout his career, he's had 16 songs in the top 40. ♪money money. >> reporter: of course, not all of them were original billy idol tunes. he didn't write the wildly popular hit, money money, but billy idol isn't his real name. ♪eyes without a face.

>> reporter: william michael rod was born in england. dad was a power tools salesman and mom a surgical nurse. billy's childhood looks like anyone else. he went to church with parents and fell in step with the cub scouts. but as a teen he was obsessed with music. and when he announced he was quitting college to join a rock band, his parents hit the roof. you wanted punk rock? >> yeah. well, it was a dream. you want to have fun. it was more glamorous than the power tool business that he wanted me to join. he was a great salesman, fantastic, and i thought to myself, he's selling a product, not just himself. and i managed to work out to make my own product.

>> reporter: young billy followed instifrktstinct and he and formed a punk rock band, generation x. inspired by a teacher, he changed his last niem to idol. the new name fit him pfshl perf. by the 1980s, he was on his own, racking up the hits and the excesses of stardom. his womanizing is the stuff of legends. you had one relationship at least through all of this. >> i did, yes. >> reporter: but it was hard to stay faithful. you couldn't stay faithful? >> impossible. i mean, especially on a 10 month tour on a bus, going from nowhere, from place to place, to denny's, carls junior, truck stops.

you wanted something to break up the monotony, and the only way to do it was a piece of human flesh. >> reporter: he had other appetites as well. when here in new york, his neighborhood in the east village was at times an open air drug market. >> you can score. >> reporter: there's a story about washington square park? >> yes. washington square. i used to walk through here, and the drug dealers would call their drugs -- they saw me come, and says rebel yells is heroin. white weding is crack. and marijuana. i got caught here in a police sting. i was addicted to crack for a while. >> reporter: and stumble he

did. he nearly lost a leg in a motorcycle wreck in 1990. in 1994, idol o.d.'d outside of a l.a. night club. by then he was the father of two children. so he cleaned up his act, or tried anyway. are you sober now? >> i'm not sober. i can do everything, but i'm not doing it. i'm sort of a bit of a -- >> how does that work for you? >> it shouldn't work, really. but if i have faith in myself, and i say i'll never do it again, i'll do it. so i have to say, you can do whatever you want, but there's a side to me saying, but we're not going to. >> reporter: how about coke? >> i don't do coke or any heroin or anything like that anymore >> drinking? >> i drink a little bit. i drink with a meal at a

restaurant, but nothing else. i try not to. i want to be here enjoying today. i don't want to be brain dead. that can happen too. >> reporter: these days, he still has the swagger, anded trademark sneer, and something fans might not have seen before. gratitude. >> life is sweet. why? because i've got an audience, and the audience enjoys what i do. they tell me. i have to say it back to them. thank you for making my life. >> reporter: the man who defied his parents 40 years ago is still a rebel at heart, but they've long since made their piece. and before bill broad senior passed away in august, his son billy went home to say good-bye. >> my dad was in the last stages of cancer and having trouble getting up the stairs orine doing simple things like putting his pajamas on or

brushing his teeth. we had to help him with all of that because he was getting so weak. one night i put him to bed, and he got emotional, and he said, did it upset you that i didn't understand you choosing music as a career? and i thought about that for a couple of seconds. i said, dad, i was crazy to do it. and i was crazy to do it. ♪rebel yell >> reporter: but for billy idol, crazy works. >> go, go, go! [ applause ] >> charles: next. games people play.

>> charles: amazon recently said it was paying a billion

dollars to acquire twitch, a social network for people who watch other people play video games online. >> bill burbank is watching this development waryly. >> let me start off by saying i've always been bad at video games. >> growing up, i spent hours watching my friends find the princess, racking up points and extra lives. meanwhile, when it was my turn, it was pretty much came over as soon as the first weird goomba man showed up. if there's one thing i have a lot of experience with, it's watching other people play video games. let me tell you, it's boring. extremely boring. >> that's why i was shocked to read of amazon's recent acquisition of twitch, a wildly successful online service that allows people to recreate the trauma of my childhood by watching other people play video games all day long. and it turns out, it's not

just twitch. there's actually a huge and growing market for video games as spectator sport. >> game one of the world finals. >> reporter: live tournaments sell out the rei arena in l.a. here's the part i don't get. if video games are themselves a notorious time waster, why would someone want to watch someone else waste their time? what's next. a network that lets you watch people mindlessly scroll through newsfeeds or orange is the new black. the amazing thing about this digital age is that it allows us to observe all kinds of things all around the world that we otherwise wouldn't be able to see. if we squint hard enough t almost seems like it is the real world, but it isn't. i think we've got to remember that. the real world has a smell and

a feel to it, but still can't be recreate online or in any game. here's a fun fact. did you know the real world is broadcasting is 3-d all the time? i know, amazing. the hard thing about the real world is there isn't a controller for it. you can't move people around with super strength or jump over things if they're in the way. the real world is a game you spend your entire life trying to master, and probably never will. it's full of heartbreak and triumphs, and genuinely terrifying moments. it remains, for now, anyway, the most interesting game any of us will ever play.

>> charles: here's a look at the week ahead on our sunday morning calendar. monday kicks off customer service week designed to boost morale, motivation and teamwork of all of those on the front lines of dealing with the public. on tuesday, actor robert deniro receives the highest award of the friar's club, the entertainment icon award joining tom cruise, douglas fairbanks, carey grant and frank sinatra. on wednesday atotal lunar eclipse, the blood moon just before sunrise in north and

south america. thursday, sees the release of the limited edition of the 75th anniversary of batman postage stamps at new york comic-con. on friday, the norwegian nobel committee announces this year's winner of the nobel peace prize. a record 278 people and organizations as well have been nominated. and on saturday, what's described as the world's first large scale hello kitty opens at the japanese american national museum in los angeles.

>> charles: tensions remain high in hong kong this weekend. pro-democracy demonstrators agreed to take down some barricades. but their struggle against the government continues. saegt doeth doane as the sunday journal. >> reporter: to hold their ground this weekend,

pro-democracy demonstrators fighting back residents and people believed to be have ties to criminal gangs. blocked roads, and closed businesses. saturday night, protesters, including teacher joan holdefer were energized and undeterred. >> i want to to see my kids have freedom. it's not just for one or two days or one or two weeks. it's for the future of hong kong. >> reporter: protesters have faced tear gas, while police try to clear streets. they protected themselves from pepper spray with umbrellas, and a symbol of what's called the umbrella revolution. at the core, these protests are about democracy, and specifically they're about who can be on the ballot. in 2017, hong kongers can go to the polls to elect there'd chief executive, their top leader, but beijing decreed

any candidate must be vetted by a committee that's loyal to the communist government. >> that's beijing. >> reporter: american michael davis has been a professor of law in hong kong for nearly 30 years. >> we're talking about one election, 2017, years away. how important is this? >> it is really personality, because what they're witnessing over the past few years is a kind of dysfunctional government that seems to represent beijing more than it represents hong kong. >> reporter: hong kong is a british colony until 1997 when it was handed over to chinese rule. it's governed by a policy called one country, two systems which allows some autonomy from china, grants legal freedom, and is on display here. freedom of speech. this push for democracy is the most public challenge to communist china since that other student led movement in

1989, tiananmen square. a free democratic election could result in a hong kong leader with sympathys to the west. that's not nothing china's president. xi jinping would like to see. beijing's reaction to all of this remains clear in the communist country's mouth piece newspaper. it has published editorials that have called the protesters goals a day dream, and says the protests were allowed to continue, and there could be chaos in the streets. so protesters are being careful to police themselves, helping each other over barricades, misting each other to keep cool, offering free food and even haircuts. they're being called the politeest protesters in the world. >> this shows we deserve democracy. >> reporter: we met 27-year-old barry hoi manning

a booth of donated splice. you admit beijing is unlikely to acquiesce to the demands. >> yes. >> why be here day after day. >> because all of us have hope. >> reporter: some of the protesters are telling us they feel they've won, simply by raising the issue and taking the fight for democracy in china into the streets and on to the world stage. >> charles: seth doane reporting from hong kong. now to bob schieffer in washington for a look at what's lad ahead on "face the nation". >> good morning, what to do about the situation with ebola. and we'll have an interview with israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. >> charles: thank you. and next week here on sunday

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