This week on "Sunday Morning" (April 28)

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Hosted by Jane Pauley

     
COVER STORY: Take it easy – The importance of being lazy
Social pressures to be productive – not to mention a culture that prizes multitasking – make doing nothing hard to do, for fear of being accused of the dreaded sin of laziness. However, experts say there are rewards for not pushing yourself to the edge all the time. Correspondent Susan Spencer looks at how some of the most productive and innovative people in history allowed themselves to take time out, just to be.

For more info:

• "Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving" by Celeste Headlee (Harmony), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Celeste Headlee (Official site)
• Lonnie Golden, Professor of Economics and Labor-Human Resources, Penn State Abington
• Earl K. Miller, Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

     
ALMANAC: April 28
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.

     
HEADLINES: Campus unrest
David Pogue reports.

For more info:

• "What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party" by Michael Kazin (Macmillan), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Michael Kazin, professor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

 ARTS: Uncovering the artwork of Stanley Whitney
He's been painting for more than 50 years, but artist Stanley Whitney – whose bold, colorful canvases offer vibrant hues and deliberately ferocious brushstrokes – is just now getting his first major retrospective (including many works never before exhibited publicly), at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y. Correspondent Alina Cho talks with Whitney about the breakthrough that came during his artistic journey. 

For more info: 

• "Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon," at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y. (through May 26)
• Exhibition catalogue: "Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon," edited by Cathleen Chaffee (DelMonico Books/Buffalo AKG Art Museum), available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org

• Stanley Whitney (Gagosian Gallery)

MUSIC: Kate Hudson on her "Glorious" album
Kate Hudson made a name for herself as an Oscar-nominated actress in "Almost Famous." But music has always been in her blood, and now Hudson is making a name for herself as a singer-songwriter. She talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her debut album, "Glorious," filled with her songs about life and love, and reveals the one song that truly rips her heart out.

PREVIEW: Kate Hudson says her relationship with her father, Bill Hudson, is "warming up" (with video)

For more info:

• "Glorious" by Kate Hudson will be released May 17
• katehudson.com

To watch Kate Hudson perform the single "Gonna Find Out," from her new album, "Glorious," click on the video player below: 

PASSAGE: In memoriam
"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.

      
BOOKS: "The Demon of Unrest": Recounting the first shots of the Civil War
Beginning on April 12, 1861, over the course of two days, more than 3,300 shells and cannon balls rained across Charleston Harbor towards Fort Sumter, the first shots fired in the Civil War. Correspondent Anthony Mason visits the fort with bestselling author Erik Larson, whose latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," explores the events leading up to the bombardment and what Larson calls "the single most consequential day in American history."

READ AN EXCERPT: "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson

For more info:

• "The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War" by Erik Larson (Crown), in Hardcover, Large Print, eBook and Audio formats, available April 30 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• eriklarsonbooks.com
• Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Charleston, S.C.
• Fort Sumter Tours
• South Carolina Historical Society
• Drone footage by Sumner Crawford of Above All Media
• The Mills House Hotel, Charleston, S.C.

     
HARTMAN: TBD
     

SUNDAY PROFILE: Dan Rather at 92: "You're either gonna be involved or you're gonna be totally irrelevant."
It's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," at the network where he spent 44 years covering wars, politics, and the assassination of JFK – and where he mentored a young correspondent named Lee Cowan. Rather, now 92, talks with Cowan about his illustrious career; about the story that gave him (and CBS) a black eye; and his post-CBS years, writing books and finding a new, younger audience on social media.

For more info:

• Follow Dan Rather of Twitter/X and Facebook
• Thanks to the LBJ Presidential Library, Austin
• The documentary "Rather" debuts on Netflix May 1

U.S.: A zoo for rescued animals, beneath a Key West jail
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office Animal Farm, a small zoo on the grounds of a detention facility in Key West, was started by accident in the mid-1990s when word got out that the sheriff had rescued some ducks from a nearby road. Since then, many animals – abandoned, abused, confiscated or donated – have been brought to the farm, which is maintained by a small team of people incarcerated there. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on a zoo that is making a difference in the lives of those incarcerated as well as the more than 100 animals currently residing there.

For more info:

• Monroe County Sheriff's Office Animal Farm, Key West, Fla.

SPORTS: The pageantry of the 150th Kentucky Derby
2024 marks the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, the longest continuously-held sporting event in America. Correspondent Jim Axelrod visits Churchill Downs to explore the history and spectacle of the "Run for the Roses."

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ode to Secretariat (Video)
Charles Kuralt presents this remembrance of one of the truly great racehorses: Secretariat (1970-1989), whose monumental 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes in 1973 was a run for the ages. We also hear from Penny Chenery Tweedy, Secretariat's owner; Heywood Hale Broun, who covered Secretariat's Triple Crown win; and Arthur Boyd Hancock III, the owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding operation in Paris, Kentucky, who looks over the very last foal of Secretariat, Risen Starlet. Originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" May 3, 1992.  

For more info:

• The 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, May 4
• Kentucky Derby Museum, Louisville
• Coolmore Farm, Versailles, Ky.
• Jockey Mike Smith
• Second Stride, Moserwood Farms, Prospect, Ky.

       
NATURE: Wildflowers in Missouri
      

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WEB EXCLUSIVES:

     
THE BOOK REPORT: Reviews by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles
Recent picks from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles.

For more info: 

• Ron Charles, The Washington Post
• Subscribe to the free Washington Post Book World Newsletter
• Ron Charles' Totally Hip Video Book Review
• Bookshop.org (for ordering from independent booksellers)

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Jerry Seinfeld on comedy, directing, and Pop-Tarts (YouTube Video)
In this extended conversation with "Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca, comedian Jerry Seinfeld goes deep when talking about the precision of his approach to comedy, and how he made a fondly-remembered part of his youth – the breakfast staple Pop-Tarts – the subject of his directorial debut, the Netflix comedy "Unfrosted." 

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David Morgan

David Morgan is senior producer for CBSNews.com and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning." He writes about film, music and the arts. He is author of the books "Monty Python Speaks" and "Knowing the Score," and editor of "Sundancing," about the Sundance Film Festival.

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