
This week during the Cannes Film Festival in Paris, filmmaker James Toback will unveil his new documentary, "Tyson," an in-depth look at the life of Mike Tyson. The film contains segments from over 30 hours of interviews with the former champ, plus highlights and lowlights from his career.
"I look at it now and I'm embarrassed I did it," Tyson told the New York Times. "There's a lot of information people didn't need to know. I don't know who I am. That might sound stupid. I really have no idea. All my life I have been drinking and drugging and partying and all of a sudden this comes to a stop. I never thought I would live to this age."
The film will not only talk about the successes the soon to be 42-year old Mike Tyson had in his career, but also his marriage and bitter divorce from actress Robin Givens, his three-year prison sentence for rape and his squandering of 400 million dollars on his way to bankruptcy. Tyson's drug abuse is also looked at in the film, but he's currently been clean for 15 months and is looking to get his life straight and narrow. There's no word on when the film will be hitting theaters in the states, but it said to be a powerful film.
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By: TRUTH on 5/25/2008 4:42PM
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO #10(TRINITY), IM SO IN AGREEMENT WITH U, HOW THE F8CK CAN 400MILL VANISH WITHOUT A TRACE, WHAT A DUMB A** AND NOW HE WANT SYMPATHY FOR HIS IDIOTIC PAST MISTAKES, SUCK IT UP DUMMY, YOU'RE A LOSER AND ALWAYS WILL BE, U CHILD MOLESTING PEDOPHILE. AND FOLKS ALWAYS SAY PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES, HE'S MADE TOO MANY AND DEFINITELY COULD OF BEEN AVOIDABLE, ESPECIALLY HIS PREVIOUS RAPE CASE AND THE BITING OF THAT BOXER'S EAR HE FOUGHT IN THE PAST. LOW LIFE B*STARD TRYING TO MAKE A STARTLING COMEBACK NOW THAT HE'S BROKE AS A JOKE, SO FUNNY!!! I'M SURE ROBIN GIVENS GOLD DIGGING TRIFLING A** LAUGHING HER A** OFF AT HIM TOO, AND I NEVER EVER LIKED HER PERIOD, ESPECIALLY IN ANYTHING SHE HAD A ROLE IN PERTAINING TO FILMS/MOVIES!
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By: BERNARD THOMAS on 5/25/2008 5:45PM
WELL, I'M ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS MIKE AND I ADMIRE HIM FOR HIS GREATNESS IN BOXING AND FAME. SEE, HE GOT CAUGHT UP WITH SOME OF THE WRONG PEOPLE AND A VERY DEGRADINF MARRIAGE WITH ROBIN. MIKE, I WISH YOU LUCK IN THE FUTURE. I NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO FULFILL MY DREAMS ON BECOMING SUCCESSFUL, BUT YOU DID IT AMONGST ALL ODDS
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By: phyllis on 5/25/2008 6:40PM
If what's on the left side of his face don't embarrassed him, I don't see how anything he say or do can.
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By: Shunda on 5/25/2008 8:47PM
Mr. Tyson no one has the power to still your identity for Jesus went to the cross for all. You clearly need to meet a man name Jesus, a comforter, a mind renewer, a redeemer, and your forever friend who has already laid down his life so that you can live. Visit a church home and get to know Jesus as your personal savior and he will reveal himself to you and then you will in turn NO WHO YOU ARE AS WELL AS WHOSE YOU ARE! Be Blessed.
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By: SJponytail on 5/25/2008 9:44PM
Oh well, Its all in the past. He can't take anything back. If he wants to overcome his embarrassment, he has to show what he has learned and how he has grown from his triumps and failures. Everyone makes mistakes. His mistakes were on a whole different scale. I did feel sorry for him, because after the death of his foster father, I don't know if he had anyone around him, who truely had his best intrest at heart.
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By: Larry on 5/25/2008 9:51PM
Trinity you a real live hater,racist fool. I don't want to get into name calling but i call it like i see it.mike you were blessed and is blessed as we speak.don't mind scum like Trinity.you were blessed to have 400 million to blow .You did what you wanted.Welearn from our mistakes.I only wish i could have been blessed with a tenth of that molar.Never mind the haters God bless you my brother.Keep that head up.It's not over yet.
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By: fiesty1007 on 5/25/2008 10:02PM
#49 you need to kick rocks too, now let that truth be told, you need to stop worrying about what mike tyson did with his money and take your no grammer azz back to school, you and trinity is highly upset because you guys did'nt have the honors to even see what money look like. you guys talk so much through your hatred on a black man, but when he was getting his you's two dumb fuccs was cheering him on he was your hero then. let's look at your people that was at stardom, and waisted there money on drinking and drugging, and could'nt face their problem, did'nt have no more of that star money to get high and took their own life. and your wanna be white preist that get there rocks off by touching your little brother, and every sunday you pay them too do it. who is to say what he did in that hotel room was really rape, she told him no when he told her to leave that maybe the only time when no came up, only him and that girl was there, he wouldn't make her his wife after she gave it up, she was mad at that and seen $$$igns. so all you broke hater fall back roll over and smuther yourself.
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By: Raymetria on 5/29/2008 12:32PM
I have never liked MIke Tyson, something about him has always bugged me, he just seemed cocky and gross. I think that his story is a perfect example of karma, what goes around comes around.
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By: bwhite on 8/09/2008 10:12PM
The boxing world sucked Tyson dry. Now the rest of you chumps get a shot.
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