Taking your ass back to 1997. Ving Rhames nails his performance portraying the always electric Don King in this biopic. Before Ving played Melvin in Baby Boy, and after he was Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction he knocked out his portrayal of an American icon, Don King.
Made exclusively for HBO by HBO. This is Ving Rhames' best acting performance. A lot of people thought Don King was playing himself in this movie. In part because many people can't really identify Don by anything other than his hair, but mostly because Ving captured his persona perfectly.
I don't have a top 10 or 20 list of my favorite movies and I don't think I could make one. I just have movies that I will always like. This is on the list of my favorites.
I can't find too many quality scenes on the net, but here is one of the more memorable scenes where Don gets George Foreman to sign with him for the Rumble in Jungle.
Memorable quotes from this movie:
"I wash my hands before I touch my d**k"
"It's entertainment, baby! You love my black ass! 'Cause I'm exciting! "
"If you didn't have Don King, you'd have to invent him."
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