After The Fall

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"I don't know who I am," former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson says to N.Y. Times contributor Tim Arango in a 5.11 piece about James Toback's Tyson, a pared-down but altogether touching doc that will show later this week in Cannes. "That might sound stupid," Tyson continues. "I really have no idea. All my life I've been drinking and drugging and partying, and all of a sudden this comes to a stop."

The line this most recalls, of course, is the one from Wim Wenders' The American Friend, spoken to Dennis Hopper's Tom Ripley character: "I know less and less about who I am, or who anyone else is."

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AH says ...

I am finding it really hard to feel any kind of sympathy for this guy, not that he cares about my feelings or anything.

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thevisceral says ...

He's faded into Bolivian.

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Mgmax says ...

Maybe he and Terence Davies can find group counseling somewhere together?

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Mgmax says ...

Apropos of nothing except perhaps a certain Lear-esque quality to this post, as well as the recent discussions of a recently deceased actor:

BBC Radio just rebroadcast a thing called Dionysos with Paul Scofield and Chiwetel Ejiofor. I haven't heard it but I very much liked both a Troy three-parter and the Narnia adaptations they did with Scofield, so it'd be worth checking out. It'll be up until next Sunday as streaming audio:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/sunday/

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Rich S. says ...

Didn't this clown find religion during one of his stints in the pen? Maybe he can look to his Chairman Mao, Che or Arthur Ashe tattoos for inspiration.

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frankbooth says ...

That's actually a fairly common sentiment among the recently recovered.

(And wasn't that line spoken by Ripley himself, rather than to him? That's how I remember it, though I could be wrong.)

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Michael says ...

Based on that shot with Tyson above, I'd have guessed this was directed by Amber Waves.

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BurmaShave says ...

thevisceral, you beat me to it you bastard. A defining quote for our age in its own way.

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