#bobby riggs

[porterdavis]

Fifty years ago tonight

Billie Jean King defeated Bobbie Riggs in straight sets to win the so-called 'Battle of the Sexes'. (Yes, she was allowed the doubles alleys but that patently didn't matter). I was tending bar in a sports bar/meat market in Denver (anybody remember the Bull & Bush?) and every TV was on the match.

The atmosphere slowly changed from raucous chauvinism to stunned silence as the whuppin' unfolded. People forget that in the early 70s there was a grim recession which pretty much ended the 'women's lib' movement as women were forced into the workforce (and bras were required).

In 1973 women couldn't open a bank account in their own name, or have a credit card. The 'weaker sex' wasn't a throwaway line, it was a belief. This night was one of the first cracks to appear in the macho world. As the Virginia Slims ad had hopefully said a few years earlier -- "you've come a long way, baby". There was/is still a long way to go.

[citizenscreen]

#OnThisDay in 1973, in the “Battle of the Sexes,” tennis match, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in the Houston Astrodome.

[oldshowbiz]

1979.

Arte Johnson meets Bobby Riggs.

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(⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠♪ MORE!

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yes, it’s soooo unfair to have women beating a man like that! 😂😉

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💰 5 milhões de dólares é mais do que as atletas da WNBA ganham ao longo de toda sua carreira.

💲 O maior salário da história da WNBA é de US$ 242.000. O salário mínimo da NBA é de US$ 1,1 milhão.

🕓 Uma atleta que ganha o maior salário da história da WNBA precisaria de 21 anos para ganhar 5 milhões.

📅 A temporada da BIG3 deste ano durará no máximo 10 jogos distribuídos ao longo de 10 semanas.

🙉 Agora, pensa você lá na cabine do Silvio Santos e chega a seguinte pergunta: "Você trocaria 21 anos de trabalho por 10 semanas de trabalho ganhando a mesma coisa?" 🗣👍✅

Que isso! O basquete feminino pode estar prestes a mudar para sempre!

Depois do que Sabrina Ionescu fez no fim de semana das estrelas e vendo Caitlin atrair multidões para os seus jogos, Ice Cube reconhece a oportunidade. Não apenas do potencial de audiência de Clark, mas também do impacto geracional que ela vem tendo no esporte. O dinheiro que a Big3 ofereceu é maior do que Caitlin conseguiria ao longo de toda sua carreira na WNBA.

Pelo menos por enquanto.

Antes de ir aos comentários me explicar como funciona a relação entre receita e audiência, calma. Eu sei.

A maior audiência da história da WNBA atingiu 728.000 nas finais de 2023. A audiência média da temporada regular da NBA hoje é de 1.620.000.

O basquete feminino não gera receita suficiente para salários mais altos. Ainda. Isso pode finalmente mudar com a Caitlin Clark.

A WNBA vai precisar correr atrás de dinheiro pra atingir o patamar que suas potenciais futuras atletas estão estabelecendo. E se isso significa ter mais audiência, é disso que terão que correr atrás.

Antes de dizer que é impossível, lembre-se: em 1980, a NBA estava à beira da falência.

Surgiram dois rookies chamados Magic Johnson e Larry Bird que mudaram a liga para sempre e ajudaram os jogadores a serem bem pagos.

E Jordan levou isso a um novo patamar. Kobe. LeBron. Steph.

A próxima: Caitlin Clark.

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[guardianreadersofthegalaxy]

My ★★★★½ review of Battle of the Sexes on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/5YuSjL

Sports films are so much better than actual sports! There was this one really hard return BJK did that made me whoop.

Is this technically a biopic? If so, it avoids the usual pitfalls by being (to paraphrase Patrick H. Willems) 'a story about Billie Jean King, rather than the Billie Jean King story'.

It conveys the frustrations of fighting institutional misogyny, but balances that out with plenty of female bonding so you don't get too depressed.

Comparatively, issues surrounding BJK's sexuality got fairly short shrift, which made Alan Cummings' little speech at the end feel a bit unearned. It's tough, because it'd be disrespectful not to address it but also this is such a tight 2 hours and I wouldn't want it to be any longer.

Did they go too easy on Bobby Riggs by saying his sexism was all an act? I think if you say the sexist things he said, even cynically for the sake of your own advancement, you're still promoting male chauvinism. Steve Carell's inherent likeability might have defanged the feminist message but on balance it did make the film more entertaining, without lowering the stakes of the final game. So I'm not too bothered, and besides Bill Pullman's character is genuinely horrible.

Great score from Nicholas Britell. I need to see more from these directors too.

[women-tennis-colorizations]

Bobby Riggs given the U.S. Championship’s Trophy from Sarah Palfrey Cooke, 1941

[scifipinups]

HAVE CATSUIT, WILL TRAVEL

Who'd I miss?

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Looking back at the older Saw movies, I’m wondering now if the series would have a better reputation if it had been treated more like an anthology. Because the two best movies in the franchise (1 and X) are the ones that could stand on their own, while the lower-tier ones are the ones that deal with the convoluted timeline.

I’m thinking something along the lines of Scream in which it’s the “same” villain, Jigsaw, but with different people in the role. There was a different Ghostface in every Scream movie, which worked for that franchise. Maybe Saw could’ve done it like that.

In fact, just off the top of my head, here’s how Saw could’ve looked as a semi-anthology:

Saw 1

* It’s the same

Saw 2

* It’s mostly the same, but John Kramer has to die at the end of it (he probably dies from Eric Matthews’ beatings). Saw 2 ends conclusively, as if this was the end of the franchise.

Saw 3

* Takes place two years later.

* Jeff and Lynn Denlon are the subjects.

* The story is centered around a copycat Jigsaw, who is revealed to be Amanda Young. Amanda secretly became John’s apprentice and has now taken his place.

* Amanda escapes at the end.

Saw 4

* Takes place simultaneously as 3.

* Daniel Rigg is the subject.

* Here, it’s revealed that Amanda was working with someone, meaning there were 2 copycat Jigsaws the whole time. The ending reveals that the 2nd copycat is Mark Hoffman, one of the lead detectives.

* Mark gets away and picks up Amanda, who has just left the game from the previous movie.

(NOTE: I want to emphasize that even though this takes place at the same time as 3, this movie is meant to be seen as a standalone. You don’t have to watch 3 to understand 4 is what I mean)

Saw 5

* Takes place a few weeks later, brings together the events of 3 and 4.

* Amanda and Hoffman put together a new game (the five-become-one teamwork trap) while trying to avoid the police.

* The movie ends with Hoffman betraying Amanda and shooting her dead, only for him to fall for one of Amanda’s booby traps (the closing walls trap that killed Strahm). So, 5 ends with Hoffman getting smushed as Amanda bleeds to death.

Saw 6

* Takes place a few years after 4 and 5.

* Detective Zeke Banks is the subject.

* A new Jigsaw copycat - also known as the Spiral Killer, to distinguish them from the other Jigsaws - pops up. The ending reveals that the new Jigsaw/Spiral is William Schenk, one of the detectives working the case.

* Schenk gets away with his crimes, setting up the 7th movie.

Saw 7

* A direct continuation of the 6th movie.

* William Easton is the subject, but has more of an involvement with Jigsaw/Schenk.

* Schenk dies at the end of it, but not before taking Easton down with him.

Saw 8

* Takes place a year after 6 and 7.

* The subjects are Bobby Dagen, his wife Jill Tuck-Dagen, and their family and friends.

* First twist: Just like the original series, Jill is revealed to be John’s ex-wife.

* Second twist: This Jigsaw is revealed to be Melissa Sing and that the reason why she’s testing Bobby, Jill, their family and their friends is vengeance for her husband’s death (Detective Steven Sing).

* Bobby and Jill survive while Melissa is arrested at the end.

Saw 9

* At least takes place several years after the 1st movie. The timeline isn’t as important for this one.

* Revealed that Dr. Gordon from the first movie did survive since John saved his life. Instead of asking him to become his apprentice, John allows him to return to his life. However, his life since surviving the bathroom trap has been horrible, leading him down a downward spiral.

* Main story: When Gordon learns his colleagues have been involved in a scam targeting the terminally ill, disgusted by their actions, he decides to put them through a series of brutal tests.

* Basically, in this alternate timeline, Gordon became a Jigsaw copycat through his own volition rather than John recruiting him.

* Gordon escapes at the end and decides to retire from the Jigsaw role.

Saw 10

* Takes place a few weeks after the 9th movie.

* Focuses on a manhunt for a Jigsaw copycat (assumed to be Gordon). It’s only at the end that we learn Gordon was in an entirely different state during the events of this movie.

* The new Jigsaw is revealed to be Logan Nelson, the coroner who appeared earlier in the movie. Since Melissa and Gordon were one-off Jigsaws, Logan is set up to be the new main Jigsaw.

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You can read the revised, semi-anthology timeline like this:

The John Kramer arc is 1 and 2

The Amanda and Hoffman arc is 3, 4, and 5

The Spiral Killer arc is 6 and 7

8 and 9 are standalone movies

10 is the beginning of the Logan Nelson arc

Even though the movies do lead into each other, the arcs are meant to stand on their own and the timeline is much less convoluted. Also, not everything ties back to John, which I feel would give the franchise more creative freedom.

[citizenscreen]

50 years ago today: in the highly publicized "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match, top women's player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men's player. #OnThisDay (September 20, 1973)

[oldshowbiz]

1974.

[monboyfs-seesaw]

Those quote slideshows, but Saw pt. 1

[eatmarcus]

Carl n Eleven doodles based on actual Chandler and Millie photos :3

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Wrestling With Sin: 484

This is the 484th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder!

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list of saw characters criminally underdiscussed by fans

daniel rigg: one of the few actually likable cop protagonists in the franchise even though he has a penchant for police brutality more than once! because we see the one heroic (though detached from reality) facet of police work through him: his desire to save people from harm. the fact that hoffmann’s test for him is made to try and scrub what little humanity rigg has left for him to become the ultimate cop, ie jigsaw, by making him let go of the idea that people deserve to be saved? poetic. strahm’s offer to join hoffmann could never honestly.

brit and mallick: i’m a huge fan of the fatal five trap because it’s the only trap that could have been solved with minimal bloodshed up to the end and i find the way brit was going “we won” at the end of her game like… CHILLING victim falling for the jigsaw philosophy. one of those rare examples of characters that could have actually made logical and interesting apprentices. here we have two guys capable of doing messed up things, were punished for it, got the emotional rush of “atoning” for it but their moral flaw was literally not addressed because how the hell is torture supposed to fix that! so of course they would believe in the jigsaw philosophy at the end of it all!

simone: literally the one person in the franchise to directly call out jigsaw’s fucked up philosophy to jigsaw himself and to other victims when they foolishly try to give their suffering meaning only to end up falling back on jigsaw’s trash personal responsibility philosophy. queen.

bobby dagen: can we talk about how jigsaw’s philosophy is dangerously similar to bankable self help industry bullshit about personal responsibility that throws people in vulnerable circumstances (such as addicts, poor people and abuse victims) under the bus? oh, you mean there was a character we could have used to talk about it and we’re NOT TALKING ABOUT IT??? HELLO???

matt gibson: the pinnacle of the mainline saw franchise’s subtle discussions on police brutality exemplified and i am in love with it. we found THE single cop that saw police brutality, reported it, got demoted, was expected to save a horrible woman that let countless crimes happened and still saw she had the right to be protected from being murdered, and then failed to save her and everyone. because cops can’t save anyone. policing doesn’t save anyone. the end. the grisly tragedy of it all…

brad and ryan: honestly hilarious these two dipshits were the final accomplices with lawrence considering brit and mallick were right there but i am 99% sure lawrence hooked them in with some incel bullshit talking points after his wife left him and these chucklefucks were furious to find out how dina played them. which only goes to show how deep the rot in jigsaw’s philosophy goes. so many avenues of exploration.