Mike Tyson Undisputed Truth: He Loves BARBRA STREISAND

Mike Tyson does indeed offer the "undisputed truth" in his new best-selling autobiography. He tells of his drug abuse, his orgies, and his violent childhood. He does it without bragging; he repeatedly calls himself all kinds of names, including "smuck." (It's only after you finish the book that you notice in the back, a page on "Lexicon," in which he states that "smuck" is a term he's coined for someone too low to even be called "schmuck."

Yes, we sometimes get too much information (Mike winning a championship while suffering from a painful and drippy venereal disease). More startling is how often Mike talks about being tearful...crying and sobbing over his doubts and miseries and yes...sensitivities. In what could be some kind of blockbuster revelation (after all, he's already snarled his innocence about his rape conviction, and growled about Don King) he admits...to loving Barbra Streisand and her music. That's a pretty shocking truth:

"Barbra Streisand…is very soulful and I'm not saying this from a black or an ethnic perspective. She just makes you feel good in your soul with her singing. People get jealous and put down people like her because they can't give off that kind of energy and love, they can't woo people';s hearts like Barbara can. I was enraptured the whole show. Afterwards we went back to her dressing room and took a picture with her…The next day I was still emotionally drained. It was so exciting to be around her and to have seen her sing. She's meant so much to my mother and other people in my life. I'm just happy to be alive when she's performing."

Well people who love Barbra, are the luckiest people in the world.

"Undisputed Truth" is over 500 pages, but some of it speeds along like Tyson hitting a speed bag. He hits on every topic you'd want to know about, and a lot more.

Mike says it ain't easy being in debt and a recovering alcoholic (who has relapses). He is suffering the miseries of aging, which includes a lessened libido and a greater irritation with life itself: "I thought you're supposed to get more mellow as you age but I'm getting more irritable and bitter."

He's tried various religions and isn't too keen on any of them. He doesn't believe in an after-life: "Put me in the dirt, no casket or anything..." But it seems that one way to snap him out of any anxiety or depression would be...a ticket to see Barbra. That's heaven. ""They say that only Muslims are going to be in heaven. If I go to heaven and there's only Muslims and I'm not with my friends that I know and love, I don't want to be there..."