![]() Paul Winfield’s interpretation of promoter Don King is brilliant. Scott offers a canny, sly turn as a tough nice guy. ![]() Michael Jai White (Universal Soldier) has Tyson’s little-boy voice, shy gaze, and hair-trigger temper down cold. Nonetheless, I couldn’t take my eyes off it, because Tyson is filled with striking performances. Based on Jose Torres’ book, Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson, HBO’s Tyson is the sort of overwrought melodrama you’d expect about this subject, full of hokey dialogue. Two seasons ago, director Barbara Kopple’s remarkable NBC documentary about boxer Mike Tyson offered such a straightforward, harrowing, yet sympathetic view of the fighter that all these months later a docudrama like TYSON (HBO, April 29, 8-10 p.m.) seems superfluous. ![]()
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