reporter: started with her grandson walter huston. >> you are so dumb you -- >> he won an oscar for the treasure of the sierra madre and directed by anjelica'shn huston who took home an oscar too. >> growing up did you feel that the family name was a bit of a burden? >> no. i always liked being a huston. >> and i always felt like it was my right and it was my birthright and it was who i was. >> reporter: acting is in her blood, over the course of more than 50 movies she has played some pretty imposing characters. like her oscar nominated role as the con artist in the grifters. >> you are working some angle don't tell me you are not because i wrote the book. >> you took that money from the mob. >> that is me. that is who i am. >> reporter: and ghoulish mortician in the adam's family. >> don't torture yourself, gomez. >> that is my job. >> the her love of acting started early growing up on a country estate in ireland. >> it was the stuff of fairy tales, the riding horses with her father and mingling with his famous friends while her life may have been glamorous, she didn't think she was. >> because i never felt that i would particular, i was p

i'm pleased to have anjelica huston back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: how does one decide it's time to write about my life? >> well, grayden carter said to you "when are you going to write about your life?" (laughs) >> rose: grayden knows what interesting lives are all about. >> grayden absolutely does and i was inspired by him at christmas. i got a lot of exercise books for angelica's memoirs written on the front and he sort of made it impossible for me not to. >> rose: couldn't say no? >> i could not say no. >> rose: made you an offer you couldn't refuse. so what do you do now? first you have to decide what the process is, what you're going to cover because you're going to do in the two books. >> i didn't decide then it was going to be in two books. that decision was made for me by my publisher nan graham at scribner. >> rose: so you wrote one long book -- >> i wrote a slew of pages by hand with a number two pencil. >> rose: by hand? no computer for you. >> no computer. >> rose: why not? >> i didn't grow up typ

. >>> oscar winner anjelica huston is in our toyota green room."cbs this morning. >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald >>> good morning. 8:26. i'm frank mallicoat on your tuesday. get you updated on some bay area headlines now. u.s. safety regulators are investigating fires in tesla model s electric cars. the probe affects more than 13,000 vehicles. the agency wants to examine risks from under carriage getting struck. the tesla ceo says he welcomes the investigation. >>> happening today, people up in sonoma are voting on a measure that has the north bay city divided. measure b would police department new hotels and hotel -- would limit new hotels and hotels expansion to 25 rooms or less. >>> george lucas has support for his plan to build an art museum at crissy field. the email support for lucas plans include yahoo's ceo, steve jobs' widow and mc hammer. >>> traffic and weather coming up after the break. stores good morning. it is slow now both directions of 80 through berkeley. there is a new crash. it's counter-commute eastboun

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