Peace Not Punches
Twelve years after the ear-biting incident, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield were reunited on Oprah Friday, in a much more peaceful and friendly encounter. Shaking hands, Tyson praised his former f...
The film to watch right now is Tyson. It's a profound expo of the maddening of male personality at the very extremity of maleness. Going into the film I wasn't interested in Mike Tyson or even boxing for that matter, but it left me with ...
Whit Stillman is an Academy Award-nominated writer and director. He has filmed three comedies of manners: Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco. He also published a novel based on The Last Days of Disco
Perfect Teammates?
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My Friend Iron Mike
Ice-T is a Grammy-award winning rapper, actor, and author, who is credited with pioneering gansta-rap in the late 1980s. He currently plays Detective Odafin Tutuola on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
I've known Mike Tyson for 15 years. Or at least I thought I did. James Toback's mindbending documentary reveals the vulnerability and madness that nobody's ever seen.
From O.J. to the Pope: 13 Embarrassing Yawns and Naps
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White House economics guru Larry Summers made headlines this week by falling asleep during a meeting with Barack Obama. He has some formidable company, from Tony Blair to Pope John Paul II. Is fame and power that tiring? VIEW OUR GALLERY of other narcoleptics who could have used some caffeine.
Bloody Brilliant
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
James Toback's documentary Tyson, opening today, offers a harrowing look at the troubled boxer and finds something surprising: He knows what he did wrong.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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