This week on "Sunday Morning" (October 27)

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COVER STORY: Election 2024

        
ALMANAC: October 27
"Sunday Morning" looks backmost astatine humanities events connected this date.

Leonardo da Vinci's insatiable curiosity and quest for knowledge led to tremendous advances successful science and nan arts.   From "Leonardo da Vinci"/PBS

TV: Portrait of a genius: Ken Burns connected Leonardo da Vinci
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, renowned for his documentaries connected specified topics arsenic nan Civil War, baseball, jazz and nan Statue of Liberty, has now focused connected 15th period Italian creator and intelligence Leonardo da Vinci. Correspondent David Pogue talks pinch Burns and his producing partners, girl Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon, astir their PBS documentary connected nan man Burns calls "one of nan astir incredibly absorbing quality beings who has ever walked nan Earth."

To watch a trailer for nan Ken Burns documentary "Leonardo da Vinci" click connected nan video subordinate below:

For much info:

• "Leonardo da Vinci" debuts connected PBS November 18
• kenburns.com
• American Museum of Natural History, New York City
• Clos Lucé, Val de Loire, France

See also: 

• The brilliant of Leonardo da Vinci ("Sunday Morning")
• BOOK EXCERPT: Walter Isaacson's "Leonardo da Vinci"
• WEB EXTRA: Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance painting ("Sunday Morning")

Maze designer Adrian Fisher leads Seth Doane done 1 of this puzzles.  CBS News

WORLD: Amazing Mazes
British designer Adrian Fisher has created hundreds of mazes astir nan activity – useful of creation that tantalize and confound those who effort to navigate done hedgerows, maize stalks, yew trees, aliases lights. Correspondent Seth Doane gets mislaid successful our fascination pinch puzzling mazes, and sets retired to complete Fisher's monumental maze connected nan grounds of Leeds Castle successful Kent, England, wherever location is nary Google Maps to thief you find your measurement out.

For much info:

• Maze designer Adrian Fisher
• The Maze & Underground Grotto, Leeds Castle, Kent, England

Ralph Fiennes arsenic a cardinal starring nan predetermination of a caller pope successful "Conclave" (left), and arsenic Odysseus returning from nan Trojan War successful "The Return."  Focus Features/Bleecker Street

MOVIES: Ralph Fiennes
Oscar-nominated character Ralph Fiennes is returning successful 2 caller acclaimed films. In "Conclave," astir nan intrigue of papal politics, he plays a Vatican insider who oversees a gathering of cardinals who must elite a caller pope. In "The Return," Fiennes – reunited pinch his "English Patient" costar Juliette Binoche – plays Odysseus, who has returned location pursuing nan Trojan War. Fiennes talks pinch analogous Martha Teichner astir nan tie of playing characters pinch contradictions, and nan thrill of uncovering a caller role.

To watch a trailer for "Conclave" click connected nan video subordinate below:

For much info:

• "Conclave" opens successful theaters October 25
• "The Return" opens successful theaters December 6
• Villa Medici, Rome

       
PASSAGE: In memoriam
"Sunday Morning" remembers immoderate of nan notable figures who near america this week.

      
U.S.: One Texas separator town's divided identity
Most of nan 30,000 residents of nan separator municipality of Eagle Pass, Texas, are of Latino aliases Mexican descent, and are proud of nan town's bi-national, bi-cultural, bi-lingual traditions. But nan metropolis has besides go a flashpoint successful nan nationalist speech astir immigration. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks pinch locals who person seen their municipality go a tie for migrants, politicians, and Texas National Guard.

For much info:

• City of Eagle Pass, Texas (Official site)
• City of Eagle Pass Art & Culture Center, Eagle Pass, Texas (Facebook)
• Eagle Pass Border Coalition (Facebook)
• Operation Lone Star (Texas Governor's Office)

Singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks.  CBS News

MUSIC: Stevie Nicks connected "The Lighthouse," her rallying outcry for women's rights
Stevie Nicks became a superstar arsenic lead vocalist and songwriter for nan '70s set Fleetwood Mac, and a platinum-selling solo artist. She talks pinch analogous Tracy Smith astir composing her latest song, "The Lighthouse," that was inspired by her ain acquisition pinch abortion, and a beardown desire to "do something" pursuing nan Supreme Court determination overturning Roe v. Wade. She besides discusses nan nonaccomplishment of her bandmate Christine McVie successful 2022, and really she continues to salary tribute to her.

To watch Stevie Nicks execute "The Lighthouse" click connected nan video subordinate below:

For much info:

• Stevie Nicks (Official site)

       
HARTMAN: TBD
        

SPORTS: A sojourn pinch "Mr. Baseball" Bob Uecker
During six undistinguished seasons successful nan awesome leagues, Bob Uecker ne'er played an inning for nan Milwaukee Brewers. But during much than half a period arsenic nan team's play-by-play announcer, he has go a mascot for nan crippled – and for nan metropolis of his birth. He talks pinch "60 Minutes" analogous Jon Wertheim astir his emotion for baseball, and really it has manifested successful his adjacent careers arsenic actor, commercialized pitchman, and TV talk show guest.

For much info:

• Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Brewers

      
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Notable Deaths successful 2024 63 photos

GALLERY: Notable Deaths successful 2024
A look backmost astatine nan esteemed personalities who've near america this year, who'd touched america pinch their innovation, productivity and humanity.

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