singer suzanne vega tries on a new role as a playwright and actress. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> mason: good evening. six days after his death in pakistan, a new picture of osama bin laden is emerging tonight. in an-- it is almost certainly not one he would have wanted us to see. video seized by the navy seals who raided his compound show a distinctly unheroic-looking terrorist leader which may be why the government selected them for release. homeland security correspondent bob orr in washington begins our coverage. >> reporter: it's a startling image-- a haggerred looking osama bin laden huddled in a blanket and ski cap, holding a remote control, watching television news coverage of himself. the video, one of five released at a by the u.s. government, shows bin laden sitting alone in a drab, run-down room in front of an old tv connected by a bundle of bare cables to a satellite receiver. the government did not release the audio of the home movie but bin laden is watching a broadcast of one of al qaeda's many terror me

suzanne somers. now 65. what led to that going from being an actress to an infomercial? >> careers are cyclical. i was in a low. i was doing two two-hour shows in vegasw, you have to find a way for us to make a living where i don't have to show up. >> reporter: so her manager husband began exploring the world of infomercials when he stumbled upon an unusual fitness contraption. >> it was called the detoner for the upper body but had been sitting around for years, no one had ever done anything with it and i'm looking at it and my inner thighs were just starting to show signs of jiggling and i said would this work for the inger thighs? i used to do aerobics till i dropped then i found thigh master. >> reporter: it didn't just work, the thigh master became an incredible hit. >> squeeze your way to shapely hips and thighs. >> reporter: but that was only the beginning. suzanne would go on to launch more than a thousand infomercial products. >> ink producing the buttmaster. bodyrode. >> in fact, she found an infomercial hasn't worked for everybody. in 1993 cher jumped in. >> i'd like to introduce you to my friend and hollywood's miracle worker miss lori da