lee cowan, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: she will be missed. ahead we've got an important recall that could affect what you pack in your kid's lunch. that's next. >> o'donnell: kraft heinz food issued a recall today of a popular cold cut, customers are told to throw out or return a specific batch of oscar mayer ham & cheese loaf. the problem 2400 pounds of the sandwich meat may have been cross contaminated. the cold cuts were produced on october 109 of this year with a sell by date of february 7th, 2023. >> all right, to san francisco now where lawmakers are taking a second look at the use of weaponnized police robots. last week city officials voted to sub mit the use of remote controlled robots armed with explosives in extreme situations where lives are at stake. today's vote sends the controversial issue back to the committee for further evaluation. >> forbs picks the most powerful women in the world, who made the cut? that's next. >> o'donnell: forks released its list of the worldee 100 most powerful women today, ursula von der lay end of ge

cbs sunday mornings' lee cowan has a look back. >> hi, boss. >> you shut your fat face right now!nd on the house for kirstie alley, the spirited actress who played the manager of a neighborhood bar where she truly made a name for herself. >> i'm going to show you how a really gracious winner behaves. read 'em and weep, farm boy! >> reporter: her character on "cheers," rebecca howe, hid behind a veneer of holding it together. >> i love him. >> reporter: she was really a hot mess. her longtime co-star, ted danson, said today that her ability to play a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown was both moving and hysterically funny. she was hardly meek. there was a directness about her that she said came from her kansas upbringing. ♪ come along and be my party boy ♪ >> reporter: critics called her refreshing. those who disagreed with her politics called her something else. she was open almost to a fault, including her very public weight loss journey. >> john goodman's got his own show and jason alexander looks like a frickin' bowling ball. >> reporter: her children called their mothe

"cbs sunday morning's" lee cowan has a look back. >> good morning, boss!u shut your fat face right now! >> reporter: a round on the house for kirstie alley, that spirited actress who played the manager of a neighborhood bar, where she truly made a name for herself. >> i am going to show you how a really gracious winner behaves. read them and weep, farm boy! >> reporter: her character on "cheers," rebecca howe, hid behind a veneer of holding it together-- >> i love him so much! >> reporter: --but was really a hot mess. her long-time costar ted danson said today that her ability to play a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown was both moving and hysterically funny. ( laughter ) she was hardly meek. there was a directness about her that she said came from her kansas upbringing. >> ♪ come along and be my party boy! ♪ >> reporter: critics called her refreshing. those who disagreed with her politics, called her something else. she was open, almost to a fault, including her very public weight loss journey. >> john goodman's got his own show, and jason alexand

lee cowan catches up with the smothers brothers. >> quiet on the set! expected to be back on camera at this point in their lives. >> i have to get him really irritated to have him do a good interview. >> take one. >> reporter: they didn't think they would appear here on cbs. >> cbs presents this program in color. >> reporter: after all, ours is the network that famously canceled their top rated show back in 1969. >> it's "the smothers brothers comedy hour." >> reporter: they turned prime did the time tv upside down. ♪ my old man is a sailor ♪ >> reporter: tommy was on guitar. dick was the straight man on the base. ♪ my old man is a chicken plucker ♪ ♪ what do you think about that ♪ >> i think you better not make a mistake. >> we looked so naive and pure and clean. >> what about socks? >> reporter: did you think of y yourselves as standup comedians? >> no. folk singers. ♪ stupid song ♪ >> what did you say? >> i don't want you angry. i want you to know it's a stupid, dumb song. >> reporter: they were almost an instant hit. just two weeks after the show pr

lee cowan is in conversation with brendan fraser. >> reporter: we didn't expect brendan fraser to build since he had a pretty nasty cold. what we really didn't expect was for him to start quoting her man melville. >> i know not all that may be coming, but come what will, i will go to it laughing. 1851, her man melville. >> reporter: it meant a lot to him lately, ever since whispers of a best actor rumor came out. >> it's a tomorrow thing. i'm staying in today. >> reporter: before we show you his performance, just take a look at the reaction it's getting. a six-minute standing ovation, first at the venice film festival and then a five minute one at the london film festival. >> that was unexpected. i got choked up. >> reporter: chances are, you may get choked up, too. >> do you ever get the feeling, people are incapable of not caring? people are amazing. >> reporter: that's "the whale." it's the story of charlie, a man living with obesity, who is trying to right a few wrongs in his life. >> i'm sorry. >> don't. >> reporter: he says it's the most demanding role of his long career. one of t