*Discusses Tyson's life in and out of the ring. *Includes Tyson's most colorful quotes. *Includes pictures of Tyson and important people in his life. "Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter." - Mike Tyson A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Iron Mike Tyson was one of the most feared opponents to ever step into a boxing ring. With unbelievable power that floored or stopped all but two of his first 28 professional opponents, Tyson began an unprecedented ascent to the top of the boxing world, becoming the youngest champion in history with a second round TKO over Trevor Berbick, the last man to box and defeat Muhammad Ali. That victory, in November 1986, prompted one British sports reporter to write, "The noble and manly art of boxing can at least cease worrying about its immediate future, now it has discovered a heavyweight champion fit to stand alongside Dempsey, Tunney, Louis, Marciano and Ali." Tyson became one of the biggest names in sports during the 1980s and could literally do no wrong in the ring, compiling a 37-0 record with 33 KO/TKOs. On top of that, he was the face of the iconic Nintendo game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out , a favorite among every video gamer in Generations X and Y. It was a stunning rise for a kid who grew up poor with no father in rough neighborhoods of New York City. Taunted for his now instantly recognizable high voice and lisp, Tyson was quick to fight and a petty criminal who became orphaned upon his mother's death when he was 16. Somehow, 4 years later, he was the heavyweight champion of the world. Unfortunately, as everyone knows today, the unprecedented nature of his rise is rivaled only by his stunning fall from grace. In February 1990, Tyson was knocked out by Buster Douglas in one of boxing's greatest upsets. Though he won his next few fights, his career was derailed by his conviction for raping Desiree Washington, landing him in prison for 3 of his prime fighting years. When Tyson got out of prison, his career simply became surreal. After winning a few belts back, he lost two bouts to Evander Holyfield, infamously biting part of Holyfield's ear off out of frustration during the rematch. He had another stint in jail before the end of the '90s, and his odd comments before his loss to Lennox Lewis ensured that the man once billed as an all time great was now more of a one man circus than anything else. In 2003, near the end of a career that had netted him $300 million, Tyson declared bankruptcy, hitting rock bottom. Today Tyson is nostalgically remembered as one of boxing's great heavyweights, but that shares the pedestal with his controversial quotes and antics. American Legends: The Life of Mike Tyson looks at the life and career of Iron Mike both inside and outside of the ring, including all his famous ups and infamous downs.
There is a streak of Don Quixote in Marvin... and perhaps in you. In an earlier era, Mike Royko was the Journalistic Don Quixote of Chicago and Marvin's idol. Mike wrote a newspaper column that was syndicated in 600 newspapers around the country. His insights were brilliant, his observations on target and his comments enlightening. When Royko died at the age of 62 in 1997, Marvin tried to pick up his lance and started to write commentaries for a few friends and relatives. Although obviously, no one can replace Mike Royko, today hundreds of people enjoy reading and commenting on the Political Updates from Marvin. In this book, Marvin encourages us to enjoy and understand the politics that shape our society. Just like Don Quixote, we seem to be up against impossible situations. But by reviewing a similar key election cycle of ten years ago we can better understand and react to our current challenges. Marvin writes about why we should care more about the politics that are shaping our lives, and maybe even chase some windmills along the way. The Political Updates are about life, current events, and of course, ourselves as citizens, voters, non-voters and... dreamers. Although he hopes these old Updates are enjoyable to read, they allow us to reminisce about how we felt about a very similar political situation and hopefully help us understand our current challenges. We can and should learn from the past as history often repeats itself. But for better or worse and for your enjoyment, education or confusion, here are the Political Updates from Marvin for 2004 and 2005. And if you don't like them or disagree with the commentaries, Marvin says... You can blame it on Mike
S' tant adress au FBI pour obtenir communication du dossier de Michele (Mike) Schirru, fusill le 29 mai 1931 Rome pour son projet d'attentat contre Mussolini, l'auteur s'est vu r pondre que 'Mr Schirru ne fait pas l'objet d'un dossier personnel du Bureau': il dispose pourtant de la preuve crite du contraire... L'existence de cachotteries, tant d'ann es apr s les faits, a toujours de quoi surprendre, mais c'est aussi que l'enjeu d passe la personne de Michele Schirru: il y a aux Etats-Unis tout un public, qui m me sans illusions, serait choqu d'apprendre que dans sa promiscuit avec les dictatures le d partement d'Etat allait jusqu' glisser chaque mois l'ambassadeur fasciste Washington la liste des opposants en partance pour l'Italie; que n'importe quel diplomate fasciste en poste dans le pays avait juste besoin de d crocher le t l phone, pour obtenir du FBI tout ce qu'il voulait; et que la pratique de l'ouverture du courrier tait d j bien plus pr sente que ne veulent bien le dire ceux qui font jouer au seul John Edgar Hoover le r le du m chant. Cet aspect policier du dossier est peu voqu toutefois dans ce premier tome qui est surtout consacr ce qui se place aux sources du projet. Les motivations de Schirru sont connues: le testament politique que ce marchand de fruits de la Little Italy in the Bronx laissa derri re lui (et qui fut publi apr s sa mort dans l'hebdomadaire L'Adunata dei Refrattari dont il tait proche) est un mod le de clart venu avant tout rappeler que la libert ne perd jamais ses droits -quel que soit le pays et quelle que soit l' poque. Il y indique aussi, avec une bonne cr dibilit , avoir t d s 1923 partisan de l' limination physique de Mussolini: tous n'avaient pas t aussi lucides, on le sait; et l'id e que le fascisme tait un... ph nom ne passager trouva plus d'un cr dule pour la faire sienne. Mais, entre le fait d'avoir t toujours partisan d'un acte, et celui d' tre soi-m me volontaire pour sa r alisation: il y a plus qu'une simple distance. L'auteur ne pr tend pas r pondre la question - laquelle Schirru lui-m me n'aurait probablement pu r pondre: qu'est-ce qui peut faire qu'un homme heureux en famille, et la t te d'une bonne situation (il ne fut pas ruin par 1929), en arrive cette d cision ? L'objet ici est plut t de porter, plus modestement, un clairage d'historien: - sur le parcours personnel de Schirru, de sa Sardaigne natale de l'avant-1914 son Am rique d'adoption des ann es vingt en passant par Turin et la premi re guerre mondiale. - sur une culture politique, qui tait ici celle d'un socialisme de jeunesse vite abandonn pour l'anarchisme. - sur le contexte de l' poque, c'est- -dire une poque o il n'y avait pas encore d'Hitler au pouvoir "mais seulement" un Mussolini qui tait alors le pape du fascisme mondial. D'o une erreur bien compr hensible de r partition des r les, mais qui n'enl ve rien la pr monition: dans son texte (r dig en d cembre 1930) Schirru d signe Mussolini -et non Hitler- comme le 'monstre qui d'ici peu, toujours par soif de pouvoir et avec la complicit de tous les autres fascismes d'Europe, d clenchera sur tout le genre humain le fl au exterminateur d'une nouvelle guerre'. Ouvrage consacr un homme, donc, et lui seul; et hommage avou . Mais par la quantit d'informations qu'il contient et la ma trise des sources il s'adresse galement celles et ceux qu'int resse plus largement l'histoire de l'antifascisme "de terrain", celle du vieil anarchisme (celui qui tait bas sur l'Id al, et pla ait la Libert au-dessus de tout), ou encore l'histoire de cette p riode qui dura pr s de vingt ans et durant laquelle rien ne laissait pr sager qu'un d barquement en 1944 en Normandie -ou m me un d barquement en 1943 en Sicile, dans le cas de l'Italie- puisse venir un jour mettre fin la tyrannie. Une dition en langue
A psycho haunts the hills of Hollywood....It's 1961. The Berlin Wall goes up, the Bay of Pigs invasion flops, punks cruise the Boulevard with their tops down blasting Chubby Checker's "Pony Time," and women are being savagely butchered on LAPD cop Mike Montego's beat. Something's got to give, and it won't be Montego.
While the baby boomer generation gets a lot more press (not to mention prestige) these days, author Peter F. Young isn't ready to let war babies-those born between 1938 and 1946-fade into the night without a turn in the spotlight. Like others in his generation, Young came of age during the early years of rock 'n' roll-and promptly fell in love with the so-called "devil's music." Like scores of other kids in small towns across America, Young not only worshipped rock stars, he dreamed of becoming one himself. But, unlike most of those other kids, he almost made it. In this charming, irreverent, and hilarious memoir, Young recalls his boyhood and teenage years in the small towns of rural Vermont and Northern New York State, home of the almost-famous Mike & the Ravens. Despite their shoddy equipment and decidedly un-rock 'n' roll upbringings, Young and his band mates managed to get signed by a record company, become regionally famous, pull a ton of stunts-including causing a rock album to be played over a church's robust belfry speaker system at 2:00 a.m. and land in jail like real rock stars-and still grow up to become productive, contributing members of society.
It's a series of BOOKS It's a COMIC-STRIP It's a series of ANIMATED SHORTS It's a CD It's THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG MAGIC MIKE'S CASTLE Magic Mike Likey's prequel to his original 1980's/'90's television show. The location: young Magic Mike's parents' castle, where Mike, a magic enthusiast, artist, and musician, fantasizes numerous adventures both terrestrial and not, with his constant companions, "Desmond Dragon" and "Forgetful Lion", in reality, two stuffed toys, but who miraculously come to life and join Mike on his adventures In the end, Mike's parents interrupt his daydream adventures by coming home, entering his room, or calling him for dinner. Mike never loses his sense of wonder, sense-of-humor, nor his passion and imagination. The story-books are in comic-book format, and often satirize society, politics, and life in general. Sometimes there are even life lessons, messages, and above all, love and humanity between the whimsical and humorous writings. The author/animator is Dr. Michael Likey, who brought his original vision of his television-show to life in the 1980's and '90's, producing, hosting, writing, creating the sets and props, and performing the songs and magic-tricks culled from his magic-shop, "Merry Minstrel Majick". Together with puppeteer Darrell Scarrett, (the voice-talent and creator of the original Desmond and Forgetful) the original "Magic Mike's Castle" (in reruns and web-clips) still bring joy and nostalgia to the long-watching audiences of all ages Today, Mike's web-series "The New Magic Mike's Castle" captures the charm of that original series We are proud to welcome "Adventures of Young Magic Mike's Castle" to the "Magic Mike Likey Universe".
When you give your life to the Circus, the Circus can take your life.130 years of grievance comes to the fore within one travelling carnival when one of the troupe is killed in suspicious circumstances.In a world full of captive animals, big personalities, and silent protesters, Detective Sergeant Mike Bridger finds himself in the middle of a strange and ancient existence. an existence where everyone has an agenda and will stop at nothing to pursue it.'Sometimes the Clowns don't laugh.
The Adventures of Sammy and Mike. Come and see how three year old farm kids, Sammy and Mike, spend their day. Come meet their animals. Come with them as they run, work and play. Come with them as they explore the wonders of their world. You will be very happy that you did....
The Adventures of Sammy and Mike. Come and see how three year old farm kids, Sammy and Mike, spend their day. Come meet their animals. Come with them as they run, work and play. Come with them as they explore the wonders of their world. You will be very happy that you did....
