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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...
...BOTTOM LINE: Hollywood heavyweight Barry Levinson tries a cop show. It's good, but it's still a cop show...
...Superman. Barry Levinson, the acclaimed director of the films Diner and Rain Man, was commissioned by NBC some time ago to develop a TV series based on David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, an account of real-life Baltimore homicide detectives. With a Hollywood heavyweight taking a crack at one of TV's most durable genres, the project seemed like a good...
...reporter, Joe Mathews, spoke with 11 of the 15 members on the committee, and none of them (including Lewis) knew anything specific about budget numbers. Furthermore, in his letter, Lewis completely ignores the $30,000 boondoggle known as Red Top, the heavyweight crew team's Connecticut resort. What does the committee think about this unusual arrangement...
Mike Tyson wears that number now as a guest of the Indiana penal system, after being convicted for raping a teenage beauty-pageant contestant. In doing so, the heavyweight ex-champ forever damaged the genial stud image of star athletes and threatened to give boxing an even blacker eye. Evander Holyfield, the titleholder in Tyson's absence, had a Mr. Olympia physique but the charisma of a C.P.A. -- until November, when he fought challenger Riddick Bowe. Holyfield lost the decision, but in standing up to Bowe's horrifying piston punches he proved himself the champ Tyson could never...