Despite all the terrible publicity Mike Tyson has gotten over the years, I've never forgotten seeing him nearly two decades ago on "The Arsenio Hall Show," walking out to surprise Muhammad Ali. When Hall asked who'd win if they got into the ring, Ali pointed to Tyson. Tyson, shaking his head said, "I know I'm great. But here all heads must bow and all tongues must confess that this is the greatest of all time." Every bit of scandal since has made me wonder what happened to the generosity and lyricism I saw that night.
James Toback's documentary "Tyson" gives voice to a man who's been regarded as an animal, a thug, a dimwitted brute. Often by his own actions. Talking to Toback's camera in that curiously soft lisping voice, his head shaved and a Maori tattoo encircling his left eye, Tyson, 40 when the film was made, comes off as serious and thoughtful,...
James Toback's documentary "Tyson" gives voice to a man who's been regarded as an animal, a thug, a dimwitted brute. Often by his own actions. Talking to Toback's camera in that curiously soft lisping voice, his head shaved and a Maori tattoo encircling his left eye, Tyson, 40 when the film was made, comes off as serious and thoughtful,...
- 4/22/2009
- by Charles Taylor
- ifc.com
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