positano in the 1990's. there you go. dr. positano: that's a scary picture.ughter] charlie: then there is one where we posed for a photo in the studio. rock, congratulations. this is a book you should've written people who care about , sports and heroes would want to read this. it is really a first-person account of your life with joe dimaggio. dr. positano: i appreciate that. just to quote the great dimaggio, when he signed the baseball, he put, "to charlie rose, the best of the best. account of your life with joe dimaggio. you will always be charlie." charlie: thank you very much. the book is called "dinner with dimaggio: memories of an american hero." ♪ charlie: a friend of this program, brad grey, died sunday after a battle with cancer. he was 59 years old. he served as ceo of paramount pictures from 2005 to earlier this year. he had several billion-dollar franchises including transformers, star trek, and mission impossible. he also green lit several smaller academy award-winning films, such as there will be blood, no country for old men, and the big shor

rock positano was one of them. he first met dimaggio in 1990 when the exball player visited the foot specialist to treat an injury that plagued him for decades. over the next several years the two men became good friends. positano looks back on that friendship in his new book, din we are dimaggio. memories of an american hero. i'm pleased to have rock positano back at this table. i'm pleased to consider him a friend and pleased that he mentioned me in his book. why din we are dimaggio? >> charlie, first i have to say it took me 17 years, two days and 15 and a half hours to make it back to this table. thank you, thank you so much for allowing me to come back. that's a long time. >> rose: well, you finally wrote the book we wanted you to write. >> that's true. that is exactly true. i'm sorry. >> rose: and we're glad to have you back. why the title din we are dimaggio. >> again, charlie, dinner with di najio-- dimaggio speaks about how important the dinner table was to joe dimaggio. being a person of italian extractio