And because I’m uncomfortable, I’m thinking a lot. Should it dominate every conversation about him forever? I’m not saying it shouldn’t. Maybe all the questions are for myself: this conviction is more than 20 years old and he served his time long ago. Maybe it’s for the HBO execs, who by this time have left the stage. It’s really, really uncomfortable the way people laugh, the way they call him “champ,” it makes me uncomfortable.īut I’m not sure I have a question about it, exactly, and if I do, I’m not sure it’s for either of these guys. But as Holmes sat there, not asking about it, the clubbiness of the situation started to eat at her. And it doubtless didn’t help that Lee is known as a tough interview, voluble when he’s in showman mode but tight-lipped and withdrawn when challenged. Club critic Todd VanDerWerff for his “very aggressive” questioning (VanDerWerff says he was just talking over another critic, which is almost impossible to avoid in group situations), can be charming: With his tiny voice and beaming smile, he still seems almost like a child. So it’s not surprising that when Spike Lee and Mike Tyson took the stage to talk about Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, which will air on HBO in the fall, no one asked about Tyson’s 1992 conviction for the rape of then-18-year-old Desiree Washington, who said that Tyson pinned her to a bed in his hotel room and sexually assaulted her. Park Chan-wook Reacts to Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Remake: All the ‘Details Were Completely Different’

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