Ali

by Roth, Eric

• ISBN13: 9781557045126
• ISBN10: 1557045127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Newmarket Pr

Summary

Generously illustrated with movie stills, historical photos, and posters in a stunning four-color book design-the only official tie-in to the new film, starring Will Smith and directed by Michael Mann (The Insider). Includes over 200 images, the screenplay, behind-the-scenes stories, and writings by Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Wilfred Sheed, David Remnick, Thomas Hauser, and Pete Hamill, among others. Filmed in five months in six cities throughout America and Africa, Ali focuses on 1964-1974, from the night in Miami when 23-year-old Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title, to the stunning upset in Africa ten years later when the fighter regained his crown from a hugely favored George Foreman. With the real Muhammad Ali involved in the filmmaking, as well as his close friend photographer Howard Bingham (who is also a character in the film), Ali takes us into the ring, the strategy sessions, the bedrooms, and straight into the mind and heart of the man who, as biographer Thomas Hauser wrote, "has become a legend in his own lifetime." Superstar Will Smith trained for nearly a full year before the cameras rolled, transforming himself from a 185-pound actor to a 220-pound athlete.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(7)
Michael Mann
The Resume	13	(3)
Muhammad Ali
The Cast	16	(2)
Round 1 ``I am the Greatest!''	18	(30)
1964...	21	(2)
Clay the Contender	23	(3)
Louisville Boy	26	(5)
Playing an Icon: Will Smith on Ali	31	(3)
In Cassius' Corner	34	(4)
A Fighter Who Can Act	38	(5)
Ali vs. Liston I	43	(5)
Round 2 ``I'm not Clay''	48	(28)
A change gonna come	51	(1)
Citizen of Islam	52	(5)
Malcolm, the Mentor	57	(4)
Discovering Africa	61	(1)
Stand by Me	62	(4)
Road Work: Re-creating Ali's America	66	(4)
Sonji: Scent of a Woman	70	(2)
Ali vs. Liston II	72	(4)
Round 3 ``What's my name!''	76	(20)
Ain't got no quarrel	79	(1)
Champion Under Siege	80	(3)
Ali and the Press	83	(4)
Lacking Due Process	87	(2)
Family Man	89	(1)
Bundini: Poet of the Streets	90	(5)
Ali on the Set	95	(1)
Round 4 ``Ali boma ye!''	96	(24)
1974	99	(2)
Coming Back	101	(1)
Don King's ``Rumble in the Jungle''	102	(5)
The Homecoming	107	(1)
Foreman the Invincible	108	(2)
On Location: Africa	110	(5)
The Once and Future Champ	115	(5)
The Screenplay	120	(56)
Film Credits	174	(1)
Further Reading and Viewing	175	(1)
Acknowledgments	176