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- Baddest man : the making of Mike Tyson / by Kriegel, Mark,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality, trauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing history. On an evening that defined the Greed is Good 1980s, Donald Trump hosted a raft of celebrities and high rollers in a carnival town on the Jersey Shore to bask in the glow created by a 21-year-old heavyweight champion. Mike Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks that night, and in 91 frenzied seconds earned more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined. It had been just eight years since Tyson, a feral child from a dystopian Brooklyn neighborhood was delivered to boxing's forgotten wizard, Cus D'Amato, living a self-imposed exile in upstate New York. Together, Cus and the Kid were an irresistible story of mutual redemption-darlings to the novelists, screenwriters and newspapermen long charmed by D'Amato, and perfect for the nascent industry of cable television. Long before anyone heard of Tony Soprano, Mike Tyson was HBO's leading man. It was the greatest sales job in the sport's history, and the most lucrative. But the business of Tyson concealed truths that were darker and more nuanced than the script would allow. The intervening decades have seen Tyson villainized, lionized, and fetishized-but never, until now, fully humanized. Mark Kriegel, an acclaimed biographer regarded as "the finest boxing writer in America," was a young cityside reporter at the New York Daily News when first swept up in the Tyson media hurricane, but here measures his subject not by whom he knocked out, but by what he survived. Though Tyson was billed as a modern-day Jack Dempsey, the truth was closer to Sonny Liston. Tyson was Black, feared, and born to die young. What made Liston a pariah, though, would make Tyson-in a way his own handlers could never understand-a touchstone for a generation raised on a soundtrack of hip hop and gunfire. What Peter Guralnick did for Elvis in Train to Memphis and James Kaplan for Sinatra in Frank, Kriegel does for Tyson. It's not just the mesmerizing ascent that he captures, but Tyson's place in the American psyche"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Tyson, Mike, 1966-; African American boxers; Boxing;
- The Funeral. by Behram, Orçun,film director.; Rifat, Ahmet,actor.; Türedi̇, Cansu,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Ahmet Rifat Şungar, Cansu Türedi̇Originally produced by Cineverse in 2023.Cemal, a lonely hearse driver, is tasked with transporting murdered girl Zeynep's body. Discovering she's undead and mesmerized by her, he kills to feed her, igniting a serial killer manhunt. Their love story unfolds amidst horror.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Zombies.; Motion pictures--Turkey.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
- Drive my car [videorecording] / by Hamaguchi, Ryūsuke,1978-film director.; Kirishima, Reika,1972-actor.; Miura, Toko,actor.; Nishijima, Hidetoshi,1971-actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada.Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living when there seems to be no road ahead. Contains Korean sign language.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures, Japanese.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adultery; Chauffeurs; Death; Husband and wife; Man-woman relationships;
- For private home use only.
- Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait. by Norbu, Khyentse,film director.; Lhamo, Sadon,actor.; Leung Chiu-wai, Tony,actor.; Dorji, Tshering,actor.; Zhou, Xun,actor.; Dekanalog (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Sadon Lhamo, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tshering Dorji, Xun ZhouOriginally produced by Dekanalog in 2016.A man enters a clearing, dons a mask, plays a flute, and waits. He is soon joined by other masked people carrying machetes, spears, and bows. They take him to a place deep in the jungle where a ceremony is about to commence, and an elder explains the rules. The ritual takes place once every 12 years. It begins with the full moon, and no one may leave until the new moon rises. Identities beneath the masks must not be revealed. "You are here to prepare for the gap between death and birth," the elder explains. "You are here to find out who you really are."Self-discovery lies at the heart of this mesmerizing film from Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians). The Bhutanese lama and filmmaker, recognized by Tibetan Buddhists as the third incarnation of the founder of Khyentse lineage, imbues his films with a rare spiritual wisdom — though not at the expense of the traditional movie-going pleasures of spectacle, character, and suspense. Inspired by the concept of the bardo, a state through which departed souls pass before entering their next incarnation, HEMA HEMA: SING ME A SONG WHILE I WAIT is a colorful plunge into a world where ancient rites can summon our noblest and our basest instincts. Anonymity is intoxicating, the elder warns the participants, and can provoke reckless action. Indeed, between dazzling displays of ritual dance we will witness thievery, violation, and even murder. Can there be such a thing as justice in this self-contained world beholden to the ceremonial rules? As it draws nearer to its climax, HEMA HEMA reveals insights into human nature and how it manifests, not just in the wild, but also in the modern world of endless distraction.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Buddhism.; Detective and mystery films.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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