Mike tyson gay threats
Not even unsubstantiated death threats could keep Mike Tyson's adoring fans -- including Diddy -- away from Broadway's Longacre Theater last night, where the former Heavyweight Champion of the World performed his one-man show, Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth. The alter of director Spike Lee could be felt here and there: the ultra-loud pre-show mix of rap classics, spun by D.J. Clark Kent, called to mind the opening montage of Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," as did the banners featuring names of Brooklyn neighborhoods from "Bed Stuy Undertake or Die" to, oddly enough, Park Slope. Once the show began, the overwhelmingly male, mostly alabaster audience cheered every moment Tyson referenced his mythical boxing career -- and guffawed in a way that probably would include made Dave Chappelle squirm every time he said the word "motherfucker." (He said it a lot.) But maybe they were just glad to catch words they recognized, since much of what the champ said was unachievable to understand, thanks to his famous lisp and tendency to mumble.
Still, there was something compelling about Tyson's performance. He's a guy you can care for and/or hate, but indifference isn't really an option. And the script,
Allegations against church leader
Nov. 3, 2006 |
Stunning accusations against a national church leader
I just finished speaking with Mike Jones in his first national television interview. Click here to read the full transcript.
Jones, a former homosexual male escort, is making shocking allegations.
Jones says that Rev. Ted Haggard, the well-known head of the 30-million member National Association of Evangelicals, came to him for sex and methamphetamines on multiple occasions over a three-year period. Rev. Haggard resigned from his position in his church Thursday after Jones first made the accusations.
Just minutes before my interview with Mike Jones, Rev. Haggard admitted to the media on camera that he bought methamphetamines from Jones one time after meeting Jones in a Denver hotel room for a massage… but he denied ever having sex with Jones.
Regarding Jones, Rev. Haggard told NBC affiliate KUSA, “I did call him, to purchase some meth, but I threw it away. I was buying for me, but I never used it.”
In his first reaction to Rev. Haggard’s fresh comments, Jones told me, “Well, that just doesn’t make sense.”
Jones disputes claims that they met in a Denver hotel room at any p
JD Vance’s Munich Speech and the Transatlantic Democracy Divide
Vice President JD Vance’s Munich Security Conference speech in February rocked Europe’s political establishment. Instead of focusing on external threats to the US-led transatlantic alliance, Vance brought attention to what he called the “threat from within,” pointing to Europe’s increasing willingness to restrict political freedoms, especially the speech of Europe’s political right. Though many were critical of Vance, the truth is that European suppression of political freedoms has develop so heavy-handed that even The Economist has taken note. The newspaper recently published an article expressing concern with mainstream Europe’s approach to political freedoms, such as the uninterrupted legal ordeal of Finland’s former interior minister and member of parliament, Paivi Rasanen, enduring legal persecution for using Biblical communicate to discourage the Finnish Lutheran church from sponsoring a Pride event.
European institutions conceptualize free speech differently from those in the United States. The European Convention on Human Rights protects freedom of utterance, but unlike America’s First Amendment, it includes a loopho
Mike Tyson: Cockfight in the Desert
Blood and Neon — Tyson, Smith, Las Vegas, and Boxing
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — In a ring still stained with blood from the heavyweight fight that preceded it, Mike Tyson, at 20 the youngest heavyweight titleholder in boxing history, brings the struggle for unification of the title to James “Bonecrusher” Smith, an aging player at 33, and the only heavyweight titleholder in boxing history to hold graduated from college. Smith will have none of it. Minute follows minute, round follows grinding rotund, as Tyson tries to get inside to fling the rapid-fire combinations for which he is legendary, and Smith clinches, backs away, walks away, clinches again, hugging his frustrated and increasingly infuriated opponent like a drowning bloke hugging something — anything — that floats. For the most part Smith’s expression is blank, with the blankness of worry, a stark unmitigated anxiety without shame, yet shameful to witness. The referee, Mills Lane, exasperated, penalizes Smith by deducting points from him after rounds two and eight. (“I could have deducted a point from him after each round,” Lane said afterward, “but you don
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