His last report for 60 Minutes came in January 2008 when he conducted an interview with Roger Clemens about the former Yankees pitcher’s alleged steroid use.
According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, the percentage of Americans who think former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s real first name is Mittens. It’s not. (It’s actually Willard.) But given Rick Santorum’s recent sweater-vest obsession, if Romney embraces Mittens, 2012 could be the coziest presidential campaign yet.
— The number of commentaries delivered by veteran 60 Minutes broadcaster Andy Rooney before his retirement October 2, 2011. Rooney died Friday at the age of 92 after complications from a surgery.
“I don’t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening.” — RUTH MADOFF, telling 60 Minutes‘ Morley Safer that she and her husband, convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, attempted suicide in an “impulsive” response to hate mail and harassment (via CBS)
Just three weeks after his final sign-off on the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney was admitted to the hospital Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
In his 1,097th commentary on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney declared he’d never quit writing, but bid farewell in his final weekly essay for the newsmagazine after 33 years. “This is a moment I’ve dreaded. I wish I could do this forever, I can’t though. But I’m not retiring, writers don’t retire and I’ll [...]
Enter the American psyche.
This is beginning to get as repetitive as the sport of cycling itself.
Sources have told TIME Magazine that Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, has been detained along with her crew by Egyptian police outside Cairo’s Israeli embassy.
A Final Farewell: Relive Andy Rooney's First-Ever 60 Minutes Segment
Through his classic combination of smart analysis and witty snark, Andy Rooney launched himself to fame as a cultural icon, beginning with his first segment on July 2, 1978.