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Joe Frazier

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

    Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Heavy D, R.I.P.

    ​Mount Vernon-raised rapper Heavy D passed away yesterday. The artist, born Dwight Errington Myers, was found having problems breathing outside his home in Beverly Hills; he was taken to the emergency department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and died later in the afternoon. For many, Heavy D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Joe Frazier: No One's Second Banana

    ​Joe Frazier's death on Monday from liver cancer was overshadowed by the Penn State sex abuse scandal. Wasn't that always the way with Joe? Something or somebody always seemed to steal his thunder. He was one of the greatest heavyweight champions who ever lived, losing fights only to Muhamm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Joe Frazier, R.I.P.

    ​Yesterday the heavyweight legend Joe Frazier passed away at 67 from liver cancer, and the Times has a lengthy rundown of tributes to the man. But few of them focused on the boxer's music career; while he didn't have the best voice, he produced a smattering of recordings that melded funk, soul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Mean Streets Was Almost a Blaxploitation Flick!

    ​ In Corman's World -- the captivating documentary about renegade director Roger Corman, due in December -- Martin Scorsese reveals that he originally brought his 1973 project Mean Streets to Corman. Corman urged the young hotshot to change all the characters and make them black to keep it in ... More >>

  • Film

    June 29, 2011

    Muhammad Ali Time Capsule in Long-Lost Movie

    ​ In Corman's World -- the captivating documentary about renegade director Roger Corman, due in December -- Martin Scorsese reveals that he originally brought his 1973 project Mean Streets to Corman. Corman urged the young hotshot to change all the characters and make them black to keep it in ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

    And proud of it

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    10 Profoundly Depressing "Celebrity" Sightings at This Year's Big Apple Comic Con

    The special guest line-up for this past weekend's Big Apple Comic Con read a lot like a wish list for VH1's The Surreal Life: classic TV-show refugees (Different Strokes' Todd Bridges, Silver Spoons' Erin Gray, Dukes of Hazzard's Tom Wopat); cartoony wrestlers (Ric Flair, The Iron Sheik, Bushwacke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Jockbeat: The Beguiling Power of Mike Tyson

    In the interest of full disclosure, James Toback owes me money.  At a party in 1992, he assured me that if Evander Holyfield ever met Mike Tyson, Tyson would surely destroy him. We made a $100 bet. You know how that one turned out.  At a memorial service for Pauline Kael in the winter of 2 ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 8, 2009

    Matt Drudge Gay? Zooey Deschanel Sane?

    LaBute's stimulating latest; Jill Hennessy in the Lymelife.

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    The Gentleman Boxer

    Well-educated, well-off, from a good family . . . what makes Tor Hamer fight?

  • News

    November 21, 2006

    Letters

    Well-educated, well-off, from a good family . . . what makes Tor Hamer fight?

  • NYC Life

    September 5, 2006

    The Way We Were

    Well-educated, well-off, from a good family . . . what makes Tor Hamer fight?

  • News

    December 21, 2004

    Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

    Well-educated, well-off, from a good family . . . what makes Tor Hamer fight?

  • News

    November 26, 2002

    Smash Sequel

    Gatti-Ward: The Hits Kept On Coming

  • News

    January 15, 2002

    Technicolor Knockouts  

    Gatti-Ward: The Hits Kept On Coming

  • News

    January 1, 2002

    Sports

    Gatti-Ward: The Hits Kept On Coming

  • News

    November 6, 2001

    Err Jordan

    Mike Was the Champ. Now He Wants to Be a Contender?

  • News

    October 23, 2001

    Fighting for Their Rights

    And Their Lefts. Women Foment a Boxer Rebellion

  • News

    May 29, 2001

    Jersey’s Swamp Goblin

    And Their Lefts. Women Foment a Boxer Rebellion

  • News

    October 24, 2000

    Ceeeeeeel-e-bra-tion Time, Come On!

    There's a Party Going On Right Here

  • News

    May 2, 2000

    Waxing Poetic

    Political Prognostications Abound in Giuliani Camp

  • News

    March 30, 1999

    Celluloid Hero

    Political Prognostications Abound in Giuliani Camp

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