BIG IDEAS

One of the toughest adjustments being a Dad of young kids is that I don’t get to the movies much anymore - unless they have talking animals in them. So it was until recently that I caught the movie, TYSON, on pay-per-view. I watched it with two women who I expected to ask me to shut it off after a few minutes. But we were all riveted. It was, in a word, fascinating. Morality play, character study, portrait of a beast, a public cry for help - it was all those things at once. By the end you have to at least feel for the guy.

I guess Oprah saw it too. What else would lead her, at this moment, to have Tyson on? Now she’s having Tyson and Holyfield on together, something I was hoping never to see. I saw that fight and I think Holyfield was completely in the wrong. If you’ve ever been head-butted, you have to think that an ear bite for a head butt is a pretty fair trade if you’re going to fight dirty. A bitten ear might hurt but head to head trauma can blind you, render you incapacitated or, indeed, kill you.

I’m just hoping that if this is a bartered apology, that the apology is mutual.