The Early Show (CBS) Online Edition - 2005-11-01

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[0:00] I'm Harry Smith and you're watching the

[0:01] Early Show online. Today, what are

[0:03] Prince Charles and Camila really like?

[0:05] We'll have an insider's view of the

[0:06] royal couple. Also, we'll meet an

[0:08] incredible family that has taken in

[0:10] countless kids with special needs. And a

[0:12] treat for Star Wars fans of the young

[0:14] Darth Vader himself, actor Hayden

[0:16] Christensen. Those stories are just

[0:19] ahead on the Early Show online. As we've

[0:21] been reporting, Great Britain's Prince

[0:23] Charles and his new bride Camila will

[0:25] arrive today in the United States for

[0:26] their first official visit outside of

[0:28] England as husband and wife. CBS News

[0:31] correspondent Mark Phillips has more on

[0:32] the royal couple from some friends and

[0:34] admirers back home.

[0:39] It's a little late for a honeymoon and

[0:41] frankly the United States would not seem

[0:43] a restful first choice for Prince

[0:45] Charles and Camila now Duchess of

[0:47] Cornwall. both have gone through a

[0:49] successful public relations rehab

[0:51] program at home, particularly since the

[0:54] wedding.

[0:54] >> She's a shy woman. Um, she doesn't want

[0:57] to be center stage and I think that that

[1:00] has all gone extremely well and everyone

[1:02] who's met her has been enchanted.

[1:05] >> But the US is historically Diana

[1:08] country. Camila in any number of ways

[1:11] has a tough act to follow. Can she avoid

[1:14] the inevitable comparison though? Won't

[1:16] every everybody be saying glamorous? No.

[1:21] Young, no.

[1:22] >> Oh, how hang on, hang on, hang on. I

[1:25] think she is rather glamorous. I mean,

[1:27] flip it around the other way. Look at

[1:30] Camila and there she is wearing fabulous

[1:34] clothes. I mean, she's now got the

[1:35] clothes thing, right? There's hope for

[1:37] 58 year old women. You too can go out

[1:41] wearing an old bag and marry a prince.

[1:43] It's terrific. It was even seen as good

[1:46] news by the young princes William and

[1:48] Harry who have seemed genuinely pleased

[1:50] with their new no longer wicked

[1:52] stepmother. William lovers get on really

[1:56] well with her

[1:57] >> and the couple's friends like the hugely

[1:59] popular novelist Jill Cooper have been

[2:01] lining up to support them.

[2:03] >> You can obviously see them they're in

[2:04] love. She looks after him. She makes him

[2:06] laugh like mad. They have and they have

[2:07] fun together and um they work very hard

[2:10] and the boys love them. Still, if you're

[2:12] going to test run the new royal model,

[2:14] you could find easier roads than to

[2:16] travel to America, which is maybe why

[2:19] they're coming. Yet, for supporters of

[2:21] the royal cause, and particularly for

[2:23] Camila's friends, it'll be an anxious

[2:25] time.

[2:26] >> You tell them to be kind to her.

[2:27] >> I will tell them to be kind.

[2:29] >> Why don't you tell them to be kind?

[2:30] >> Please, please, in America, be kind to

[2:32] my friend Camila because she's lovely

[2:34] >> and a little nervous. Mark Phillips, CBS

[2:37] News, London. The folks you're about to

[2:39] meet are heroes in every sense of the

[2:41] word. Years ago, Janette and John Murphy

[2:44] adopted a child with special needs. Then

[2:46] they adopted another and another. And

[2:49] today, they have a very big, wonderful

[2:52] family.

[2:53] >> Get beat up real good. Okay,

[2:56] >> this is breakfast at the Murphy house.

[2:58] >> All the kids love to cook their own eggs

[3:00] in the morning. They don't want us to

[3:01] cook the eggs. They each want to do it

[3:03] so it can go on and on and on all

[3:05] morning. John and Janette Murphy are the

[3:07] parents of 17 adopted children who are

[3:10] all developmentally disabled. 13 have

[3:13] Down syndrome.

[3:14] >> To us, it's just normal. It's there's

[3:16] nothing abnormal for us. But I I know

[3:19] people when they first come here

[3:20] overwhelmed.

[3:21] >> Yeah, you got an H. Good.

[3:24] >> John, who was a licensed nurse, met

[3:26] Janette when both were working at a

[3:27] group home for the mentally impaired.

[3:29] Both felt a calling to help those with

[3:32] special needs. Our goal at that point

[3:34] was to start working with children when

[3:37] they're very young to teach them how to

[3:39] become more skilled at different things

[3:41] and be more independent.

[3:42] >> Hey, you're getting it, B. That's S

[3:45] >> Snakes.

[3:46] >> Back in 1983, the couple had two

[3:48] biological children of their own when

[3:50] they adopted Shannon, a severely brain

[3:53] damaged 5-year-old. And over the years,

[3:55] the family steadily grew and grew.

[3:58] >> We never thought we were doing something

[4:00] to help the world. We just knew we were

[4:03] doing something that we love doing and

[4:05] we were helping individual children. I

[4:07] never dreamed that we would adopt this

[4:09] many. But in the end, they just kept

[4:11] coming. I mean, we got phone calls, the

[4:13] referrals or, you know, parents actually

[4:15] coming out here and looking and meeting

[4:17] us and saying, "This is where I want my

[4:19] child to be."

[4:20] >> In the Murphy household, nobody is

[4:22] waited on. The children are expected to

[4:25] help with the chores, and everyone

[4:27] pitches in.

[4:28] It's important to to give them a a

[4:30] feeling of selfworth, you know, by

[4:32] getting up and doing things and uh

[4:35] instead of just having things done for

[4:36] them all the time. We start with little

[4:38] things and then they get they accomplish

[4:40] that and they do other jobs. It's pretty

[4:43] neat how they can learn. You know, it's

[4:45] they're pretty hard workers.

[4:46] >> The Murphy's say they don't know where

[4:48] their children would be today if they

[4:50] hadn't adopted them, but it's doubtful

[4:52] any would have found a family that loves

[4:54] them more. What our kids get here is

[4:58] what every child needs and it's it's a

[5:01] family. It's parents that care about

[5:03] them and they also have brothers and

[5:05] sisters they bond with and everything we

[5:07] feel like they need in a family.

[5:10] >> People magazine senior editor and early

[5:12] show contributor Jess Kaggel has details

[5:15] in today's home theater. Morning Jess.

[5:18] >> Good morning Harry. We're going to go to

[5:19] the dark side. Many Star Wars fans agree

[5:21] that the third time was definitely the

[5:23] charm. from Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge

[5:25] of the Sith, earned $380 million at the

[5:29] box office, and many thought it did the

[5:31] best job of recapturing the spirit of

[5:33] the original movies.

[5:40] In Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the

[5:43] Sith, writer director George Lucas gives

[5:45] us the ultimate battle between good and

[5:47] evil, Jedi style. This is the film where

[5:50] young Anakin Skywalker is finally

[5:52] transformed into Darth Vader, seduced

[5:54] into the dark side of the Force by the

[5:56] evil Chancellor Palpatine. All who gain

[6:00] power are afraid to lose it, even the

[6:03] Jedi.

[6:04] >> Hayden Christensen plays Anakin. The

[6:06] Chancellor is Ian McDermad. They

[6:08] recently had a reunion at George Lucas'

[6:10] new state-of-the-art headquarters in San

[6:12] Francisco, California, within shouting

[6:15] distance of the Golden Gate Bridge. I

[6:17] have a certain affection for sort of the

[6:20] darker sides of people's personalities

[6:21] and getting to explore that and and uh

[6:24] and this was a great character to get to

[6:26] do that with. They don't get much more

[6:27] villainous than Darth Yeah.

[6:33] >> Christensen knew that this was the film

[6:35] Star Wars fans were waiting for, but he

[6:37] took a low-key approach to a great

[6:39] acting challenge.

[6:41] was trying to to not undermine people's,

[6:44] you know, expectations and and trying to

[6:47] create something that will live up to to

[6:49] what they were hoping for. Um, you know,

[6:52] luckily it's just really putting on a

[6:53] costume and you've achieved that. Uh, so

[6:55] it wasn't that difficult. I think

[7:03] >> this kind of fight scene would have been

[7:05] unthinkable back then.

[7:10] Lots of things have changed, mainly the

[7:12] technology, which is one of the reasons

[7:13] George wanted to get back in the

[7:15] director's seat to make those movies.

[7:17] There was so much more to be done with

[7:18] all these brilliant effects. And I think

[7:20] in some kind of way they reached their

[7:22] apotheiois in Revenge of the Sith. I

[7:23] mean, it's oporatic in terms of what

[7:25] he's able to achieve. But in some ways,

[7:27] it hasn't changed that much. You know,

[7:28] George is George.

[7:33] Even though Star Wars made him an

[7:34] international star, Christensen says

[7:37] working with George Lucas is what he

[7:39] values most.

[7:40] >> He's truly one of the great filmmakers

[7:43] and and just a a visionary storyteller.

[7:47] Um so to get to sort of be a part of his

[7:49] world for these past couple of films has

[7:51] been pretty amazing. Uh

[7:53] >> so I I feel greatly indebted to the man.

[7:56] >> You've just seen a portion of today's

[7:58] early show. More stories are just a

[8:00] click away. of the real Camila Parker

[8:02] Bowls. She went from longtime lover to

[8:05] wife of Prince Charles. But what do the

[8:07] insiders who know her best reveal? Find

[8:09] out on the Early Show.

[8:11] >> Be sure to watch the Early Show tomorrow

[8:12] morning at 7 o'clock. For cbsnews.com,

[8:16] I'm Harry