How does Lederman score it?
Will Mike Tyson play the Wesley Snipes character or the Ving Rhames guy when they shoot the remake of "Undisputed" ? 'Cuz one way or another, the former champ could be doing more time for doing his latest crime.
The 40-year-old charged with two felonies for drug possession and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence could be sentenced to up to 7 1/2 years if the Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has his way.
"He has run out of second chances, at least in my bood," Thomas said in a news conference reported by the Associated Press on Wednesday. And he wasn't even talking about Tyson's pose for his booking shot.
Tyson was arrested Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz., pulled over after he left a nightclub. An office found bags of cocaine in his back pocket and another in a package of cigarettes in his car, court records say.
Add that to a rap sheet that includes:
-- In 1992, a rape conviction in Indiana.
-- In 1998, a contest plea to misdemeanor assault charges in Maryland.
-- In 1989, an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Central State University in Ohio.
"I don't take any pleasure out of doing this," Thomas said of pursuing jailtime for Tyson. "A week ago, my kids and I were watching 'Rocky Balboa' in the movie theater, and we saw Mike Tyson make a cameo appearance in the movie, and now here we are and he's looking at going back to prison."
About that cameo: Tyson is shown getting into a verbal spat with Rocky's challenger, Mason "The Line" Dixon, seemingly about to bite his ear off.
The next movie Tyson could be preparing for is "Undisputed II," after the 2002 movie where Snipes plays a champion boxer in a prison who is forced to confront the world heavyweight champ (Rhames), who was sent to the hole on a rape charge.
Could Tyson play both parts?
Would he have to fight a woman?
Will this interrupt Tyson's latest "world tour" of four-round sparring sessions that some actually paid to watch on TV?
Thomas said Tyson should be back in court for a preliminary hearing within the next two weeks. Until then, he can work on his prison slang. Remember in '91 when he told Razor Ruddock that "everyone knows you're a transvestite and you love me. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend. I can't wait to get my hands on a pretty thing like you." Stayed tuned.



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