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...Dylan M. Tyson, 19, a clerk at the store, said yesterday he had been informing customers that rumors were correct--the store would be closing...
...Tyson refused to comment on whether Sage Jr., which has been in its current Mt. Auburn St. location under the management of owner Charles Sage for the last five years, has been forced to close because of escalating rent...
...tell you the rumors about what's going to be coming in," Tyson said, listing a massage parlor, a bakery and an expansion of Tommy's House of Pizza as among the possible replacements...
Born in a Brooklyn ghetto, Tyson was arrested dozens of times as a child. His talent was first recognized by celebrated boxing trainer Cus D'Amato when Tyson was serving a sentence in a juvenile-detention center. It was D'Amato (played by an absurdly dictatorial, aphorism-spouting George C. Scott) who was determined to make a champion out of the delinquent. Tyson is played with an eerie emotional vacancy by newcomer Michael Jai White. Intriguingly, the actor is not given much dialogue, which serves to emphasize Tyson's position as little more than a pawn of handlers like promoter...
...What Tyson fails to do is offer us any insight into the boxer's complicated psychology. Tyson's rape of a 19- year-old beauty contestant, the crime for which he has just finished serving three years in prison, is dramatized only briefly at the end of the film. During the course of the story, though, he is depicted as a belligerent suitor who chases young women down dark streets and yet, incongruously, is so shy that he hangs up the phone the first time he calls Robin Givens (Kristen Wilson), his future wife...