People talk 6/10/04

'60 Minutes' creator steps down from show

NEW YORK -- One Sunday afternoon in the late 1960s, Mike Wallace got a call from Don Hewitt, who wanted to come over to talk about his idea for a television news show that became "60 Minutes." "We'd like you to wear the black hat," Wallace recalled Hewitt saying, a reference to Wallace's hard-charging style chasing wrongdoers. CBS feted the 81-year-old Hewitt on Tuesday night as he stepped down as executive producer of the show he started.

George Lopez returning to emcee Latin GrammysNEW YORK -- George Lopez will return as host of the Latin Grammys, the Latin Recording Academy said Wednesday. The fifth annual awards show is set for Sept. 1 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to air live on CBS. Nominations will be announced July 14. Lopez, 43, also was host of last year's Latin Grammys in Miami, where Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes swept the major categories.

-- From wire reports