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Anderson Cooper is back to good health after he was recently blinded on the job. Luckily for the "Anderson Live" host, the eye affliction wasn't permanent. 

"Temporarily blinded last week while on assignment," the 45-year-old posted on Instagram with a photo of a large white patch covering his right eye. "UV light bouncing off water. Much better now. Details today on #andersonlive."

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Cooper went on to further explain on his show that the injury occurred while he spent several hours filming a segment for "60 Minutes" in a coastal area of Portugal.

"I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire," he said. "It turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind. I went blind for 36 hours. I took this picture of me after I went to the hospital. I went to see a doctor."

Cooper later consulted with NBC's chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who explained that the blindness was caused by the light reflecting off the water burning his retinas, much like how sunlight reflected off of snow can burn the eyes of skiers and snowboarders.

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Cooper's hospital visit could have been avoided through the use of protective sunglasses.

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And now that he's all better, it's good to hear that Cooper has a sense of humor about the whole ordeal. While sharing another photo of his bandaged eye to his audience, Cooper joked, "That's my new Match.com profile picture, by the way."

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Steven Spielberg.

Steven Spielberg has opened up about his younger years and the bullying he endured that would later influence many of his films.

"I was a nerd in those days. Outsider," the director admitted during an interview that aired on Sunday's "60 Minutes." "Like the kid that played the clarinet in the band and orchestra, which I did."

Spielberg's mom, who also spoke to the CBS TV news magazine, revealed that the Spielbergs lived in a non-Jewish neighborhood and that folks would often yell out, "The Spielbergs are dirty Jews."

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As a result of the constant taunting, the man behind such classics as "Jaws," "E.T." and "Schindler's List" said that for a long time he "denied" his Judaism.

"I often told people my last name was German, not Jewish," the Oscar winner shared. "I'm sure my grandparents are rolling over in their graves right now, hearing me say that."

As a teenager, though, Spielberg discovered the craft that would eventually change his life, and that of moviegoers, forever.

"I had found a way to accept myself in my own life by making movies," he said. "I found that I could do something well."

Spielberg's latest film, "Lincoln," opens Nov. 16.

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Mike Wallace in 2006.

Mike Wallace interviewed hundreds of people and reported on many issues over the 65 years of his journalism career. But the "60 Minutes" legend, who died Sunday at age 93, is best remembered for certain stories. Here are a few of them.

Malcolm X, in 1964, told Wallace about the relationship between black communities and the police, with Wallace addressing him as "Mr. Malcolm." Less than one year later, Malcolm X would be assassinated.

"The Homosexuals" was a report anchored by Wallace in 1967, and he reportedly later regretted the outdated attitudes and wording used. One man featured in the report reportedly lost his job after it aired.

Author Ayn Rand gave her first television interview in 1959, and it was to Wallace. Her book "Atlas Shrugged" was just two years old. In the interview, Rand called herself "the most creative thinker alive."

In 1991, Wallace called singer Barbra Streisand "totally self-absorbed," referring to time spent working with her on his show "P.M. East" in 1961. The singer tried to defend herself against those 30-year-old memories, but the tears flowed.

 In 1958, Wallace interviewed surrealist painter Salvador Dali and also plugged Parliament cigarettes. He would later regret pitching cigarettes and reportedly stopped smokers on the street to ask them to quit.

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Mike Wallace in 2008.

I met Mike Wallace on a waning summer afternoon less than a decade ago. He was golden brown, stripped to the waist and came crashing through the back door of Art Buchwald's porch on Martha's Vineyard.

"Hi, I'm Mike!" he said, extending a hand, his white teeth flashing.

The man was a legend, and I shrunk back instinctively. But instead he proceeded to grill me about who I was, why and where I was a journalist, my next career plans and did they make any sense.

I was smitten. For as long as I could remember, Mike Wallace and "60 Minutes" managed to do what seemed otherwise impossible: great journalism on television.

Wallace always seemed fearless, and in fact on that day -- vibrant and powerful late in his 80s - he seemed timeless too.

Wallace was one of Buchwald's closest friends. They would spend summers on the Vineyard together (that day Wallace had just come up from exercising on the beach, visiting Art who was recovering from a stroke).

And Art was a friend of mine, a late-breaking relationship during which we talked for hours. One of the things we talked about was Art's recurring bouts with depression. It was the thing that he shared with two of his closest friends: William Styron, the novelist, and Mike Wallace.

The three of them would discreetly appear together at support groups, calling themselves "The Blues Brothers," Buchwald told me.

I could understand Buchwald and Styron as suffering from depression: a humorist (a common affliction among them) and a novelist who wrote about the illness in "Darkness Visible."

But Wallace was a surprise. Because he was familiar to us all as the aggressive journalist who asked the fearless questions of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Malcolm X, his struggles with depression seemed hard to fathom.

But it was the case. In 1996, Wallace went public with his illness, and asked the Senate's Special Committee on Aging for more federal funds for depression research.

He told the committee that he had felt "lower, lower, lower than a snake's belly," and had tried to commit suicide. (The depression apparently first appeared after being sued for libel by Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who sought $120 million for a 1982 "CBS Reports" documentary, "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.")

I don't know if Wallace succeeded in winning funds for research. But he overcame his depression and went on to continue one of the most storied careers in American journalism.

He is missed, and a man worthy of our great admiration. RIP, Mike Wallace.

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Mike Wallace, the grand inquisitor of CBS's "60 Minutes" news show who once declared there was "no such thing as an indiscreet question," has died at the age of 93, the network said on Sunday.

Wallace died on Saturday evening with his family by his side at Waveny Care Center in New Canaan, Conn., where he spent the past few years, CBS said in a statement and on its Sunday morning news broadcast.

"His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he has been a force within the television industry throughout its existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS," Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation, said in the statement.

Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, who contributed to "60 Minutes," said in a statement, "Mike Wallace was from the beginning and for many years, the heart and soul of '60 Minutes.' In that role he helped change American television news. Among the ways that this change was for the better: TV news became more investigative, more aggressive and relevant. Mike was sharp and quick of mind, a fierce competitor and a master interviewer."

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan knew Wallace for three-quarters of a century. " "My heart is broken today over the death of my dear friend Mike Wallace," Reagan said in a statement. "My parents introduced me to Mike more than 75 years ago and we've been fast friends ever since. ... Mike was an old school journalist and one of the most astute people I've ever met. The news business will be a different place now, and our lives will be forever changed for having known him."

 A special "60 Minutes" program dedicated to Wallace will be aired April 15.

"It was 65 years from Mike's first appearance on camera -- a World War II film for the Navy -- to his last television appearance, a '60 Minutes' interview with Roger Clemens, the baseball star trying to fight off accusations of steroid use," colleague Morley Safer wrote in a tribute on CBSNews.com.

"It's strange," Safer said, "but for such a tough guy, Mike's all-time favorite interview was the one with another legend, pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The two of them, forces of nature both: Sly, manic, egos rampant. For Mike -- a red, white and blue kind of guy -- Horowitz played 'The Stars and Stripes Forever.'

"It almost brought tears to the toughest guy on television," Safer added.

Just about anyone who made news during the past six decades -- in the United States, but often abroad too -- had to submit to a grilling by Wallace.

In almost 40 years on "60 Minutes," the ground-breaking investigative journalism program, he worked on some 800 reports, won 21 Emmys and developed a relentless on-air style that was often more interrogation than interview.

Wallace also drew criticism for his go-for-the-throat style and the theatrics that sometimes accompanied it. He also became caught up in a $120 million libel suit that resulted in no judgment against him or CBS but triggered a case of depression that led him to attempt suicide.

Wallace interviewed every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy - with the exception of George W. Bush -- and dozens of other world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Ayatollah Khomeini and Deng Xiaoping.

Other interview subjects included everyone from Malcolm X to Janis Joplin, Martin Luther King Jr., Johnny Carson, Vladimir Horowitz and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

When Wallace prefaced a question with "Forgive me for asking ..." or responded to a dubious answer with "Oh, come on," "60 Minutes" viewers knew he was about to get tough. His sometimes-abrasive manner resulted in the nickname "Mike Malice," and some viewers will always remember him as the man who made diva Barbra Streisand cry on camera.

In a 2006 retrospective of his "60 Minutes" career, Wallace summed up his interviewing technique as: "Let's ask the questions that might be on the minds of the people looking in ... 'If I were there in that chair where Wallace is, here's what I would want to know.'"

Reuters contributed to this report.

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