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"Mike Tyson Update!
Friday, November 30 2007
By Lisa Scott
In an effort to remain on the straight and narrow, Mike Tyson chose to return to rehab immediately after serving his 1 day jail sentence in Tent City. According to Rush & Malloy of the NY Daily News, Tyson feels most secure at the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles where he spent the past year battling his various addictions. The former heavyweight champ has become such an inspirational star on the AA circuit that his handlers are now fielding television and speaking engagement offers from people who want to hear how Tyson KO'd his demons. Additionally, 'Iron' Mike will be the focus of a major motion picture documentary by noted director James Toback that is expected to be released next year. The film, which is produced by Toback and Tyson (as well as Tyson's handlers Damon Bingham and Harlan Werner), follows the path that Tyson took after both his championship losses and his eventual fall from grace. Toback, who put Tyson in his 1999 film ‘Black and White' (in which the fighter played himself and has a ‘must see' improvised scene with Robert Downey Jr.), has told entertainment media that he has amassed over 30 hours of interviews with the former champ which took almost a year to complete. "Mike was honest about all the things that have highlighted his life," said Toback. "From his bitter divorce, the ear biting, prison, to his becoming an addict. Mike is self-aware, smart and a totally fractured personality, and he made himself completely vulnerable in this film" Of Tyson's first few months in rehab, Toback stated: "I was waiting for him to fall off the wagon. But he never did." In describing the documentary on himself, the 41 year old Tyson said: "The movie is like a Greek tragedy. The only bad thing is that I'm the subject."
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Friday, November 30 2007
By Lisa Scott
In an effort to remain on the straight and narrow, Mike Tyson chose to return to rehab immediately after serving his 1 day jail sentence in Tent City. According to Rush & Malloy of the NY Daily News, Tyson feels most secure at the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles where he spent the past year battling his various addictions. The former heavyweight champ has become such an inspirational star on the AA circuit that his handlers are now fielding television and speaking engagement offers from people who want to hear how Tyson KO'd his demons. Additionally, 'Iron' Mike will be the focus of a major motion picture documentary by noted director James Toback that is expected to be released next year. The film, which is produced by Toback and Tyson (as well as Tyson's handlers Damon Bingham and Harlan Werner), follows the path that Tyson took after both his championship losses and his eventual fall from grace. Toback, who put Tyson in his 1999 film ‘Black and White' (in which the fighter played himself and has a ‘must see' improvised scene with Robert Downey Jr.), has told entertainment media that he has amassed over 30 hours of interviews with the former champ which took almost a year to complete. "Mike was honest about all the things that have highlighted his life," said Toback. "From his bitter divorce, the ear biting, prison, to his becoming an addict. Mike is self-aware, smart and a totally fractured personality, and he made himself completely vulnerable in this film" Of Tyson's first few months in rehab, Toback stated: "I was waiting for him to fall off the wagon. But he never did." In describing the documentary on himself, the 41 year old Tyson said: "The movie is like a Greek tragedy. The only bad thing is that I'm the subject."
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