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For Your Pre-Oscar Viewing Pleasure: Anderson Cooper Investigates Journalist's Murder on '60 Minutes'

Felix Gillette — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:42:01 -0500

On Sunday's episode of 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper will report a story about the murder of Chauncey Bailey, the late editor of the Oakland Post, who was shot to death last summer while investigating a shady religious group, run out of an Oakland business called "Your Black Muslim Bakery."

According to CBS' press release, for the first time on television Mr. Cooper will interview the man who confessed to killing the award-winning journalist--and who now claims he gave a false confession and knows who the real killer is.

Katie Couric to Senator Hillary Clinton: "Do You Pop Vitamins?"

Felix Gillette — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:12:44 -0500

There have been more than 25 presidential debates already this political season, hosted by FOX, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, and Univision. But to date, CBS News has yet to sponsor a single showdown.

Last night, however, viewers who would like to see Katie Couric questioning the leading presidential candidates on a big stage, got the next best thing: Katie Couric questioning Hillary Clinton on 60 Minutes.

What did Ms. Couric ask?

Over the course of a lengthy back-and-forth, among other questions, Ms. Couric asked if Ms. Clinton popped vitamins, whether she liked Barack Obama, if she felt responsible for a deficit "caused largely by a war" she had authorized, what she was like in high school, and did her teenage classmates really call her Miss Frigidaire?

After the jump: the transcript of the interchange, courtesy of CBS: read more »

Morning Memo: Chris Martin Pops a Paparazzo; Lindsay Lohan Works the Dead Beat

Kira Goldenberg — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:02:41 -0500

"I was scared to death of him," Miss USA Tara Conner says of Trump on his upcoming "E! True Hollywood Story." Imagine what Rosie would say. (Page Six)

Charlie Rose joins "60 Minutes," which continues its refusal to target audiences under 50. (NYT)

Clay Aiken debuts in "Spamalot" today. (Goings On)

Chris Martin attacks a photographer when bringing wife Gwyneth Paltrow home from the hospital. (Page Six)

Lily Allen suffers a miscarriage in her first pregnancy. (US)

Lindsay Lohan has to spend a couple days working at a morgue – drunk driving means dead people, you know? (NYT)

In that weird Tom Cruise Scientology video, he takes credit for saving Ground Zero workers. (Page Six)