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3 days ago · Nastase is a compelling, complex character. Born in Romania in 1946, he picked up a racket at a young age and, in his early 20s, teamed up with ice hockey star turned tennis player Ion Tiriac. The ...
5 days ago · If this is a movie about love or desire or anything else, it’s only by way of tennis. ... The “Battle of the Sexes” match in 1973, between Billie Jean King and then-retired Bobby Riggs, ...
2 days ago · Take Billie Jean King, whose Battle of the Sexes with Bobby Riggs had been staged in 1973. “Ironically,” says Wilson, “the contestants did not fit the gender norms of the day.
3 days ago · Battle of the Sexes is a 2017 biographical sports film directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. The plot is based on the legendary 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
The Battle of the Sexes Carl examines the tensions between Lauren Chen and Pearl Davis and reflects on the conservative view of the proper relationship between men and women.
4 days ago · As a boxing movie, Girlfight is a modest, modern battle of the sexes, variously propping up certain sports clichés and knocking others to the mat. But Kusama’s film excels above all as a prescient consideration of how prejudices against gender identity cannot withstand the desires of individual perseverance.
3 days ago · Stone arrived at the Golden Globe Awards alongside tennis great Billie Jean King—whom the actress portrayed in Battle Of The Sexes—in a lacy, one-shouldered, black gown. Joe Maher - Getty ...
