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TELEVISION Queen and Fallen Champ: two racial sagas...
SHOW: FALLEN CHAMP...
...fictional mini-series seems stuck in a creative dead end, nonfiction is flourishing. From finely crafted American Experience documentaries to the video verite of Cops and 48 Hours, dramatic artistry & seems to reside more in the sensitive shaping of reality than in the sentimental shams of fiction. Witness Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson...
...hour NBC movie is, surprisingly, not another "based-on-fact" TV drama, but a documentary using clips, interviews and some startling home-movie footage. Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple (American Dream; Harlan County, U.S.A.), Fallen Champ is not overtly about race. But it could be the discordant final chapter of the Roots story...
Tyson's story, of course, has a tragic ending: the heavyweight champion was convicted of raping a contestant at the 1991 Miss Black America Pageant and is serving six years in federal prison. Fallen Champ recounts that notorious case with evenhanded sensitivity and an absence of polemical heat. Queen is overwrought but ultimately comforting; Fallen Champ is understated and as punishing as a left...