look out, joe, frazier, joe frazier. was it all a joke. and i laughed, and howard bingham comes in and takes pictures, all these pictures of me laughing. >> rose: he actually did that with ed bradley in a "60 minutes" piece and ed was surprised, totally surprised. and really the joke was on him. mickey mantle, your boyhood hero, other than comedy. >> amaze they go got to know him. from the first time i saw him i was eight years old. he signed a program in the clubhouse that came out for us. my dad took us to the game it was sort of kismet. we had louie armstrong seats and the program came out, i kept it all these years, he signs the same program for me 20-something years later. and then we became, like with mohammed we became frebz, and sometimes you shouldn't meet heroes, you know, but because you're going to find a part of them that's not as attract itch as it may be-- as you may want. and i was with him many times where-- the drinking was bad, and -- >> rose: and the drinking becomes abusiveness. >> and sadness and regrets. and it was r

we have names like joe frazier, george forman, leon spinks and larry holmes. what boxing would give to have talent like that. >> are there a few household names -- i'm no boxes expert. there aren't names like that anymore? >> absolutely not. it's more about the money earned rather than the boxing itself. nowadays many fights are pay-per-view events and that fight last week cost $70 for people in the united states to watch. very hard for people to watch boxing and doesn't have the global reach it did in the 1970s. >> how do you think that ken norton will be remembered? >> a man with an extremely powerful punch, a punch that would have knocked down most heavyweights these days as well. if you broke muhammad ali's jaw, you must be something special. >> thanks very much. >>> lots more coming up here on al jazeera. u.s. officials seize a new york skyscraper over ownership links to iran. >> translator: how else will i survive and feed myself if i don't come here? >> the plight of india's widows cast out by their families and with little to survive on. >>> all the sp

fought joe frazier. what a career in the big ring.on's first showdown in the ring, considered the underdog. in the course of a 12-round bout with ali, broke with jaw and won the fight. ali never let him win again. won the next fight and the rubber match. beating muhammad ali was something. in every case he came back against frazier, against norton, later against leon spinks as had it in the ring with trevor burdick. the time to walk away from the ring. the greatest champion we've ever had. >>> you fear he won't mind? >> really doesn't care about anything. >> must be exhausting. >> wow. which political story will make news in the next 24 hours? back with us, chris. your thoughts about that clip? >> well, here's my thought, chris. i wrote about this today. basically, "the washington post" did a poll. fascinating results. 59% of people do not want to raise the debt ceiling. 59% don't want to, also believe not raising the debt ceiling would do serious harm to the country's economy. i played this clip, a nihilistic streak out there, among

he's saying talk about joe frazier. and i hear it, "you got it. you got it! was like, what, what. my first i'm on television and i'm getting heckled. "sit down, sit down, drew. we know your story. we've seen you." this is about mohammed. i just handled it and when i finished he said you're my little brother and we've been like that for a long time. >> rose: do you still see him? >> i do still see him. >> rose: how is he? >> he's better than people think. >> rose: because of the speech. >> and he helped me raise $1 million for my hometown, for long beach, sackedy relief. >> rose: by an appearance? >> there's an organization called fight night, and it's in phoenix every march, and jimmy walker put this together and they raise money for parkinson's research -- >> rose: not the comedian? >> no. i've never seen an evening with as many sports and entertainment people mingled together, and the money that is raised in phoenix is unbelievable. and all ali, was there, of cour. he and his wife, lonnie-- who is a phenomenal person-- saw the damage on cnn. she called me a

. >> i wanted to beat joe frazier. i wanted to be the greatest of all time. associated with you is when harry met sally. tell me how the scene when she fakes an orgasm. was it on the page that way or was there a lot of improv in the shooting? >> it started in the rehearsal where she said women fake orgasms and he was shocked and i said well they haven't faked one with me which became a line. >> right. >> so we were on the lower east side about the shoot the scene and we talked about it and in that rehearsal meg said i should i fake one. like in a public place. >> like a restaurant with a lot of people. >> a huge one. >> yeah and then there should be an older woman that says waiter i'll have what she is having. >> is that really how it happened? >> that's exactly how it happened. rob is a great director. nora was great and meg was the perfect partner. >> when you saw it on film and the audience reaction -- >> went crazy. i was sitting in the back. the first screening was in passadena and the funny part about it was in rehearsal before we shot it meg was a litt

joe rosato jr. sat down with a woman who had a long connection with the bay area's less glamorous bridge. >> i took all these pictures from 1933 on. >> there are two scrapbooks 99-year-old louise frazier keeps. >> i hadn't even taken these. >> clippings of the golden gate bridge. but frazier has even more pictures. >> there's a story on the bay bridge. >> the day the bay bridge officially united oakland and san francisco. >> when you went on the ferry in san francisco, the trains went right alongside the bridge, so you got to see them as they were being built. >> when san francisco held the parade to celebrate the opening of both bridges, frazier was picked along with several fellow cal students to represent oakland on a float. she remembers her father working on the trains, which originally carried passengers across the bay bridge, and she remembers a toll when the family would head into san francisco. >> it was 25 cents, and they said oh, it will be 25 cents for too many years and after that it will be free. >> reporter: frazier loved the grace of the western suspension towers. the eastern, not so much. >> the eastern part was just a bridge. called the working man's bridge. >> repor