This week on “Sunday Morning” (July 27)

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS Information Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays starting at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” additionally streams on the CBS Information app starting at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Obtain it right here.) 

Visitor host: Tracy Smith

COVER STORY: “The Wizard of Oz” as you’ve got by no means seen it earlier than
This “Wizard of Oz” is not in Kansas anymore. In truth, it is in Las Vegas, the place Sphere is presenting the Judy Garland basic as you’ve got by no means seen it – a 16K immersive expertise on a display screen bigger than 4 soccer fields, with twister results, and artists and AI increasing the visions of Emerald Metropolis. Turner Basic Motion pictures host Ben Mankiewicz provides us a glimpse backstage, and talks with Garland’s daughter, singer Lorna Luft, about what she thinks her mom’s response would have been. 

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ALMANAC: July 27
“Sunday Morning” seems again at historic occasions on this date.

ARTS: The enduring sculptures of Louise Nevelson
It took the artwork world many years to acknowledge Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), however her large, monochromatic sculptures, usually incorporating discovered objects, verged on the monumental. Correspondent Religion Salie talks with Nevelson’s granddaughter in regards to the artist’s affect, and visits exhibitions of Nevelson sculptures in New York Metropolis and Columbus, Ohio.

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THESE UNITED STATES: Coney Island
When the Switchback Railway debuted at New York’s Coney Island in 1884, it signaled the arrival of the amusement park. Correspondent Tracy Smith seems on the origin and evolution of an American establishment.

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MOVIES: Kristin Scott Thomas on the ache behind “My Mom’s Wedding ceremony”
Kristin Scott Thomas, the Oscar-nominated star of “The English Affected person” and “Sluggish Horses,” has directed and co-written her first movie: the heartfelt “My Mom’s Wedding ceremony,” about three daughters who come collectively to attend their mother’s third nuptials. She talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about writing constructed on childhood losses. She additionally discusses overcoming shyness, and making her movie debut in Prince’s personal directing debut, “Beneath the Cherry Moon.”

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers a few of the notable figures who left us this week, together with rocker Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of the heavy steel band Black Sabbath.

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MUSIC: Michael Feinstein on passing his love of nice songs to the following era
Michael Feinstein’s love for the Nice American Songbook goes far past requirements written by Gershwin or Porter. He talks with correspondent David Pogue about his musical roots, and the artists of right this moment whose work, he says, add to the Nice American Songbook. He additionally talks about creating the Nice American Songbook Basis, which goals to protect the cultural legacy of American in style music. 

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HARTMAN: TBD
       

TV: The hidden facet of Johnny Carson
As host of “The Tonight Present” for 30 years, Johnny Carson was the king of late-night TV – the pre-eminent Hollywood expertise dealer, monologist, and nationwide taste-maker. However the public hardly ever noticed the non-public facet of the person who helped tuck tens of hundreds of thousands of Individuals into mattress every night time. Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Mike Thomas (co-author, with Invoice Zehme, of “Carson the Magnificent”) in regards to the late-night host’s enduring affect and personal difficulties; comedians Robert Klein and George Wallace, who describe a “Tonight Present” look as comedy’s Mt. Everest; and actress Dyan Cannon, who says of Carson, “There was no one as huge a star.” (Initially aired March 2, 2025.)

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U.S.: False positives
Erin Moriarty reviews.

This report is revealed in partnership with The Marshall Venture, a nonprofit information group overlaying the U.S. felony justice system. 

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NATURE: TBD

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MARATHON: Trip time! (YouTube Video)
Take a break, with these basic “Sunday Morning” options in regards to the joys (and miseries) of a summer season trip:     

• Martha Teichner on how Individuals’ holidays are too few, and too quick (2000)
• Summer season “assignments”? Nancy Giles needs youngsters to take pleasure in a break from schoolwork (2006)
• Invoice Geist compares an island idyll on “Survivor” with a keep at a tropical resort (2000)
• Charles Osgood on how New York’s Adirondacks turned a trip sizzling spot (1997)
• Jim Gaffigan is not going to ask you about your summer season plans, so do not ask about his (2023)
• Mitch Butler and Josh Landis clarify why you do not take pleasure in holidays as a lot as you hope to (2012)
• Jim Axelrod finds that within the U.S., the place paid break day from work will not be legally required, many simply do not take holidays (2010)
• Religion Salie asks should you’ve used up your trip days but (2014)
• Conor Knighton’s journey round Iceland takes us “full circle” (2014)
• Mo Rocca discovers the thrill of a “digital” trip, goggles required (2021)
• What did Jane Pauley do on her summer season trip? (2017) 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jazz musicians Chuck Mangione and Hole Mangione (Video)
Two-time Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn participant Chuck Mangione, recognized for his hit “Feels So Good,” died Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at age 84. On this “Sunday Morning” story that aired Feb. 15, 1987, correspondent Billy Taylor profiled Chuck and his brother, jazz pianist Hole Mangione, about their early partnership as The Jazz Brothers. The 2 went their separate methods however, 23 years later, regrouped for a sequence of reunion concert events.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jazz singer Cleo Laine and musician John Dankworth (Video)
British singer Cleo Laine, probably the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Friday, July 25, 2025, at age 97. On this “Sunday Morning” report from Sept. 30, 1990, correspondent Billy Taylor spoke with Laine and her husband, musician John Dankworth, about their drive for musical variety, from jazz and opera to Broadway. Taylor additionally reviews on the couple’s backing of Jazz FM, a just-launched British radio station dedicated to jazz, and the music college Laine and Dankworth based, at which they communicate a helpful lesson to aspiring instrumentalists and singers: “Do not ever copy anyone.”

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Prolonged interview: Bridget Everett (Video)
The actress-writer-producer behind the acclaimed HBO sequence “Any individual Someplace” sits down with correspondent Luke Burbank at Joe’s Pub in New York Metropolis, to debate the genesis of her present; her profession as a cabaret star; and the method of writing authentic songs for a sequence by which music performs a central function.

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