3 Great Divas

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February 13, 2011 6:19 PM

A Tale of 3 Divas

What did Lady Gaga, Madonna, and Barbra Streisand all do behind the scenes on their "60 Minutes" shoots?


When CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed Lady Gaga for this week's "60 Minutes" show before the Grammys, Gaga did something that only two other famous divas have done in the history of the broadcast.

As you'll see in this video, when Cooper confronted Gaga with the similarity, Gaga seemed pleased, referring to the two older stars as her "sisters."

Barbra Streisand, who is being honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year at this year's Grammy Awards, created a tradition on "60 Minutes" that lives on in 24-year-old Gaga. Watch and enjoy, fans.

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Anderson Cooper's Report

Lady Gaga & The Art of Fame

February 13, 2011 5:00 PM

With her outrageous costumes and mega-hit dance songs, Lady Gaga has become the world's most talked about entertainer. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

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Lady Gaga: Behind the "60 Minutes" Interview
Veteran producer John Hamlin followed Lady Gaga from London to Milan to New York. Hear the stories from the road, get a tour of Gaga's dressing room, and see the pop star's emotional moment we saved from the cutting room floor.


How seriously did Lady Gaga take her 12 and a half minute profile in the "60 Minutes" broadcast? Despite the bejeweled saw she brought with her to an interview, we would argue she took it very seriously.

"Once she was in," says producer John Hamlin, "she was all in." Hamlin, who has profiled dozens of music legends in his 18 years at the broadcast, says Gaga was willing to participate in anything the producers asked of her, giving it her all at every turn (a rare response among the world's biggest stars). At one point during the three-month shoot, Hamlin asked Gaga for five minutes on the Lower East Side in front of the building where she lived before she was famous. Gaga showed up in hotpants and spent an hour on camera, touring the neighborhood, pointing out her old haunts, and even snuck her way into the apartment building where she once lived as a struggling singer-songwriter.

Once inside, as you'll see in this video, Gaga gave the "60 Minutes" cameras an emotional moment that's hard to look away from.

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Gaga: My Bravery Is In My Wigs
Anderson Cooper and Lady Gaga discuss hermaphrodite rumors, fame, and the bravery of fishnets and wigs.


CNN's Anderson Cooper sits down with "60 Minutes Overtime" editor Ann Silvio to share more revealing moments from his series of in-depth interviews with Lady Gaga.

"Lady Gaga: Sometimes I wake up and I don't want to be me. But then I remember my sweet, gorgeous fans looking at me so glassy-eyed from the audience. And I want to brave for them. And my bravery is in my heels. My bravery is in my fishnets. My bravery is in my clothing and in my jewelry and in my nails and in my wigs. "