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Guest host: Tracy Smith

COVER STORY: A “Wizard of Oz” the way you’ve never seen it before
This “Wizard of Oz” isn’t in Kansas anymore. In fact, it’s in Las Vegas, where Sphere is presenting the Judy Garland classic as you’ve never seen it – a 16K immersive experience on a screen larger than four football fields, with tornado effects, and artists and AI expanding the visions of Emerald City. Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz offers us a glimpse behind the curtain, and talks with Garland’s daughter, singer Lorna Luft, about what she thinks her mother’s reaction would have been. 

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ALMANAC: July 27
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.

ARTS: The iconic sculptures of Louise Nevelson
It took the art world decades to recognize Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), but her monochromatic and immersive sculptures, often incorporating found objects, verged on the monumental. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with Nevelson’s granddaughter about the artist’s impact, and visits exhibitions of Nevelson sculptures in New York City 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 looks at the origin and evolution of an American institution.

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MOVIES: Kristin Scott Thomas on the pain behind “My Mother’s Wedding”
Kristin Scott Thomas, the Oscar-nominated star of “The English Patient” and “Slow Horses,” has directed and co-written her first film: the heartfelt “My Mother’s Wedding,” about three daughters who come together to attend their mom’s third nuptials. She talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about writing built on childhood losses. She also discusses overcoming shyness, and making her film debut in Prince’s own directing debut, “Under the Cherry Moon.”

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including rocker Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

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MUSIC: Michael Feinstein on passing his love of great songs to the next generation
Michael Feinstein’s love for the Great American Songbook goes far beyond standards written by Gershwin or Porter. He talks with correspondent David Pogue about his musical roots, and the artists of today whose work, he says, add to the Great American Songbook. He also talks about creating the Great American Songbook Foundation, which aims to preserve the cultural legacy of American popular music. 

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HARTMAN: TBD
       

TV: The hidden side of Johnny Carson
As host of “The Tonight Show” for 30 years, Johnny Carson was the king of late-night TV – the pre-eminent Hollywood talent broker, monologist, and national taste-maker. But the public rarely saw the private side of the man who helped tuck tens of millions of Americans into bed each night. Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Mike Thomas (co-author, with Bill Zehme, of “Carson the Magnificent”) about the late-night host’s enduring impact and private difficulties; comedians Robert Klein and George Wallace, who describe a “Tonight Show” appearance as comedy’s Mt. Everest; and actress Dyan Cannon, who says of Carson, “There was nobody as big a star.” (Originally aired March 2, 2025.)

READ AN EXCERPT: “Carson the Magnificent”

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U.S.: False positives
Erin Moriarty reports.

This report is published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. 

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NATURE: TBD

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MARATHON: Vacation time! (YouTube Video)
Take a break, with these classic “Sunday Morning” features about the joys (and miseries) of a summer vacation:     

• Martha Teichner on how Americans’ vacations are too few, and too short (2000)
• Summer “assignments”? Nancy Giles wants kids to enjoy a break from schoolwork (2006)
• Bill Geist compares an island idyll on “Survivor” with a stay at a tropical resort (2000)
• Charles Osgood on how New York’s Adirondacks became a vacation hot spot (1997)
• Jim Gaffigan will not ask you about your summer plans, so don’t ask about his (2023)
• Mitch Butler and Josh Landis explain why you don’t enjoy vacations as much as you hope to (2012)
• Jim Axelrod finds that in the U.S., where paid time off from work is not legally required, many just don’t take vacations (2010)
• Faith Salie asks if you’ve used up your vacation days yet (2014)
• Conor Knighton’s trip around Iceland takes us “full circle” (2014)
• Mo Rocca discovers the joys of a “virtual” vacation, goggles required (2021)
• What did Jane Pauley do on her summer vacation? (2017) 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jazz musicians Chuck Mangione and Gap Mangione (Video)
Two-time Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, known for his hit “Feels So Good,” died Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at age 84. In this “Sunday Morning” story that aired Feb. 15, 1987, correspondent Billy Taylor profiled Chuck and his brother, jazz pianist Gap Mangione, about their early partnership as The Jazz Brothers. The two went their separate ways but, 23 years later, regrouped for a series of reunion concerts.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview: Bridget Everett (Video)
The actress-writer-producer behind the acclaimed HBO series “Somebody Somewhere” sits down with correspondent Luke Burbank at Joe’s Pub in New York City, to discuss the genesis of her show; her career as a cabaret star; and the process of writing original songs for a series in which music plays a central role.

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