Above: Dennis Budesheim's balancing act.
Above: Dennis Budesheim's balancing act.
(Images by Matthew Rettenmund)
Had a blast at my second screening of Battle of the Sexes, a feel-good movie about the celebrated tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The great Billie Jean King herself was there, and happily answered many questions from moderator Sarah Kate Ellis of GLAAD as well as from the audience ...
Tennis fan Kenneth Walsh turns in a much more nuanced review of Battle of the Sexes, the Billie Jean King/Bobby Riggs film I raved about this week. (He liked it a lot, too.)
Walsh examines the film's choice to leave out the part of King's affair with Marilyn Barnett where Barnett became a paraplegic while living in Mr. and Mrs. King's home and sued Billie Jean for palimony, effectively outing her in '81. (She would not acknowledge she is a lesbian until 1998.)
There is a lot to the story the film doesn't (can't? possibly shouldn't?) contain, but at the very least, an epilogue would've been appropriate. Keep reading for this and more of the hottest links of the day on...
I went to a screening of Battle of the Sexes — the story of Billie Jean King's herstoric tennis match vs. Bobby Riggs — thinking it would probably be tons of fun since King herself was supposed to be in attendance.
Alas, King wasn't able to make it (though the directors and some co-stars came), but the film was more than enough on its own, a crowd-pleasing, spirited retelling of the story of how a clownish, faded tennis star and one of the greatest female athletes of all time used a ridiculous event to further their own agendas ...
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The rest is even better! [Image via Kenneth in the (212)]
Kenneth in the (212): Kenneth's latest hairy-dude-in-a-Speedo snap might be the best yet.
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Daily Beast: Apparently intent on steering him ever closer to out-Nixoning Nixon, Steve Bannon advises Trump to keep an enemies shit list.
Also, he's never bothered to fix this typo from yesterday. Illiterate buffoon. (Image via Twitter)
ExtraTV: Elton John's 70th b'day bash was a who's LGBTQ of glitterati: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry (she more than kissed a girl), the Neil Patrick Harrises, the Billie Jean Kings ...
Inside @eltonofficial's star-packed 70th birthday: @katyperry, Stevie Wonder & more! https://t.co/ABgy6dVnSw pic.twitter.com/zorLGcIa0D
— ExtraTV (@extratv) March 26, 2017
Keep reading for good video of Gaga singing “Born This Way,” “Bad Romance” and renditions of “Happy Birthday” with Stevie Wonder ...
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Women who posed for iconic statue by Stonewall reflect on nearly 40 years of progress.
Emma Stone pays tribute to the incredible achievements of Billie Jean King on tonight's VH1/Logo Trailblazer Honors.
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