Broadway, Hollywood composer Marc Shaiman on being a "sore winner"

Sunday Morning Broadway and Hollywood composer Marc Shaiman on his new memoir, and being a "sore winner" By Tracy Smith Tracy Smith Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a wide range of subjects, producing revealing interviews with news-making artists to moving, in-depth reporting. Read Full Bio Tracy Smith Updated on: March 1, 2026 / 10:12 AM EST / CBS News Add CBS News on Google There's a line from an old movie that says no man is a failure who has friends, and by that reasoning, meet the most successful man in town: Marc Shaiman, the legendary composer, Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-winner, and a guy with friends like Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Steve Martin who'd brave a New York snowstorm to see him. The event, held a few weeks ago at the legendary New York City restaurant Sardi's, was a book party for Shaiman's new memoir, "Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner" (Regalo Press) And with close to 50 years in the business, he has had a few things to be happy about. For starters, Shaiman has scored some of the best-loved films of a generation ("Sleepless in Seattle," "Sister Act," "City Slickers"), and scored seven Oscar nominations along the way, one of them for the music from the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." He also played the young news theme writer in the 1987 film "Broadcast News." Shaiman wrote the music for the hit Broadway musical "Hairspray," and won a Tony along with his writing partner (and former life partner) Scott Wittman. And back at Sardi's, it seemed everyone in the room had a favorite Marc Shaiman musical moment. "I loved Marc before I ever knew him," said Lin-Manuel Miranda, "because I was the species of theater kid that memorized Billy Crystal's musical montages on the Oscars. And many years later, I learned that Marc wrote those with Billy: It's a wonde...