tavis: here lari, good to have the on the program, sir. -- hugh laurie, a bit too heavy on the programile the clip was playing, you have them turn the monitor around. you have a problem watching yourself? >> i do, i have a huge problem. worse than watching is hearing. i cannot stand to hear my own voice. what is coming out of my mouth right now sounds fantastically interesting to me. it is rich and light in shade, it goes up and down, but when i hear it on tv are on someone's answering machine, i sound like i have had half my brain removed. tavis: every actor has his or her own process. you don't want to hear yourself and see yourself, how do you critique yourself? >> that is a good question. before that, i would say, white and might even an actor? tavis: wait a minute. we'll start with the actor part. >> if it's really that unbearable, what am i doing? and i don't know the answer. it is some deep-seated need that i cannot explain. i wish i could. i am going to have to come up with something right now. tavis: you can come back on the show again. >> i don't know, i suppose actors crave

>>reporter: last winter, helped by healthy snowfall, the ski resort of st lary in the french pyrenees sold 600 thousand ski passes bringing in around 16 million dollars. not bad for a small resort, but the industry is on a tricky slope. hiking the price of lift passes, already close to 40 dollars a day, in these tight economic times is not an option. the solution - make the most of the resort in the summer. >>bockman: just 10% of western europeans go skiing each year and in fact that number is going down.so right now ski resorts have to look for new business opportunities elsewhere. >>reporter: the local authorities have invested close to 80 million dollars here over the past decade. the lifts are a large fixed cost that have to be maintained, so it makes sense to use that assetin the off season. >>bernia: (in french) being open all year is a necessity for us because we have an economy to keepbusy. shops need to be able to stay open all year around, the local population especially the ski staffneed to have a future. its always difficult for seasonal staff to work for just the ski seas

he says oracle ceo lary ellofson knew he was picking a fight with h p and didn't care. >> i think larry knows full well what he is doing. there's no question that he knew this would ring the bell over at h p board and h p executive suite. >>reporter: late today oracle sounded offended calling the h p lawsuit vindictive and said the h p board its making it virtually impossible for oracle and h p to continue to cooperate and work together in the it marketplace. despite hurd signature on multiple confidentiality groou agreements legal analyst say this is not a slam dunk for h p. >> reluctant to restrict employability and not entirely mostly clear to me that the court will agree with h p assessment situation. >>reporter: when oracle made announcement yesterday that mark hurd was joining the comp company, market was closed. today investors reacted and they liked the news. oracle shares were up more than 1.30 and ellofson net worse jumped 1.76 billion dollars. in palo alto, abc 7 news. >>> couple environmental items. state wild life officials have banned fishing along a two and a half mile st