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Souljah also criticized the legal system, saying Mike Tyson was not given a fair trial...
...BOTTOM LINE: Alex Haley's tribute to his family sinks in suds; a documentary about Mike Tyson rises on real life...
...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...
Like Queen, Tyson grew up in a harshly segregated society (the Brownsville section of Brooklyn) and was taken in by a white father figure (trainer Cus D'Amato). Like Queen, Tyson had an emotional, childlike personality (in one clip he weeps in anxiety before a match at the Junior Olympics). His encounters with the outside world, like Queen's, leave him bitter and disillusioned. Says Tyson about the various promoters, managers and other gold diggers who fought over him: "My philosophy was, like, people basically suck...
...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...