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Just saw a commercial for a new series called "Taking On Tyson" its a series but I dont know what its about but it had Mike Tyson talking so I think it might be a series about him somehow..Seems pretty tight, anybody know anything about it?
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DON'T THINK IT WAS WHAT YOU EXPECTED RUCKUS! LOL
OH, the paths a life may take. Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champion, is now the star of "Taking on Tyson," a new Animal Planet series premiering Sunday that plays off his lifelong love of pigeons. He has raised them since he was a kid; now, for the purposes of this series at least, he wants to race them. (The first punch he ever threw, he says, was at someone who stole and killed one of his birds.) It's a great subject with a great setting - the rooftops of urban New Jersey and New York - but it is repeatedly dragged to earth by the hectic conventions of reality television.
The whipsaw edits - most of the shots last only a second or two - are meant, clearly, to create excitement and movement, but in doing so mask actual movement and fragment space. It is all busy, often arty surface, with no time allowed to stop and look and breathe the air, an especially unproductive approach in a story explicitly presented as a search for peace, for calm, for balance. You are hurried along and allowed no more than a glimpse of places and people who beg for a longer look.
Tyson's affect is oddly childlike, partly because of the way he speaks, partly because of what he says, and partly because the series paints everything between his childhood and what might be termed his post-career recovery - all that boxing stuff, the drugs, the prison time - as just a long detour on his way back to the birds and some lost, truer self. He is "looking for somewhere to belong," we are told - we are told things constantly, as if the producers do not trust you to work these out for yourself.
Although he's the boss, he does indeed seem like just one of the boys in "Taking on Tyson," as he and his team recite the "five P's": "Proper preparation prevents poor performance." There is Mario Costa, an old friend who owns the Jersey City property where Tyson's birds roost. Young brothers Junie and Ricky Roman take care of the coops and also see the birds as the key to staying straight. Vinnie Torre, president of the Lyndhurst Homing Pigeon Club, is the wise old Obi-Wan who comes to school them all.
For all its faults, there remains something deeply appealing. The story of the brute softened by a love of animals does not pale with repetition. (Marlon Brando's washed-up boxer kept pigeons in "On the Waterfront," set not far from Tyson's coop.) Tyson's interest in racing pigeons may have predated the pitching of this show, but its "Rocky" scenario of amateurs taking on the establishment feels buckled on to create dramatic interest. Yet for years, Tyson kept birds merely because he loved them - and that is human interest.
Much-abused city dwellers of noble proportions and heart, pigeons represent both the possibility of flight and the attachment to place, freedom and devotion. "They give you their all," says Torre. "They get home to you; it's the greatest thing in the world, I think."
'TAKING ON TYSON'
Where: Animal Planet
When: 10 p.m. Sunday
Rating: TV-PG-L (may be unsuitable for young children, with an advisory for coarse language)
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HAHA what the fuck!!! Tyson still is a bawse though
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Ya they've been advertising the fuck out of it. Mike talks about pigeons or something and shows him lifting his hands in the air and all the pigeons flying away....
thats all I rememberComment
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yea lol saw this yesterday. Really funny to see tyson like this.
He told he have this pigeon kennel from his age 20. You think he ever visit is pigeon thing with pac and were chilling there? haha
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