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Totem International, a company that sells "gay" dolls, recently debuted Tyson, an African-American muscleman with a shaved head. So, was the inspiration boxer Mike Tyson and/or male supermodel Tyson Beckford? Totem denies the doll is based on a living person, but toy Tyson does have similarities to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers and squeezing unreasonably large sanctioning fees out of fighters. Prosecutors argue that something needs to be done to restore credibility to the sport following a run of fights demonstrating questionable judging (see: Holyfield-Lewis I) and questionable taste (Tyson and the sucker munch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Takes a Swing at the Boxing Biz | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...WASHINGTON] Mike Tyson, Willard Scott, Robert Duvall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going South | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...teacher how one can tell if one's in love, and she tells him not to worry, since most of us will never fall in love and will end up marrying out of fear of dying alone. Blistering social indictment: what looks like a press conference for a Tyson-like boxer, complete with adoring fans, members of the press and a Don King-like moderator, is really a parole hearing. Perfect ironic timing: Milhouse tells Bart he can't play with him any more because his mother thinks Bart's a bad influence, and Bart replies "Bad influence...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: Twilight of the Simpsons | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...didn't have any scripts or ideas for scripts or even the ability to write a script. This did not deter him at all. It was all so overwhelming and exciting, I forgot to ask him what a manager does. This, I now realize, is probably how Mike Tyson got hooked up with Don King. Because even though I knew the whole thing was completely phony, it made me feel pretty. At one point, Weitzman saw a fellow employee at the restaurant. He brought her over. Like a gunslinger, she whipped her index finger at me and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This How Fellini Got Started? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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