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(GRUNTS)
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(PANTING)
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BATTLE OF THE SEXES
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(CROWD CHEERING WILDLY)
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SPORTSCASTER 1: A great way
to win a championship.
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With a strenuous
brilliant smash...
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...Billie Jean King is the...
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...1972 champion
of the United States!
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(CHEERING CONTINUES)
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SPORTSCASTER 2: Earlier today,
Billie Jean King continued
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what has already
been a record year...
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...with an exciting
6-4, 7-6 win
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over Rosie Casals
in a sudden-death tiebreaker.
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Billie Jean's triumph
makes her
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the most successful woman
player of all time...
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...and prompts a phone call
from a very special fan:
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President Nixon.
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BILLIE JEAN:
Hello, Mr. President.
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NIXON: Well, I just wanted
to congratulate you.
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And I'm glad to see
a fellow Californian
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gets over $100,000.
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BILLIE JEAN: And I'm glad
to be the first woman
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to do it, too.
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NIXON: Well, I wish you well,
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and you've had
a really marvelous year.
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Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you very much, sir.
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SPORTSCASTER 2:
Being queen for the day
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is not enough for this King.
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I bet you my head's too big.
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SPORTSCASTER 2: She's been
outspoken in her demands
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for higher pay
for all women players.
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Watch out, guys.
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There's no stopping
this little lady.
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Billie Jean King celebrated
her win with a big--
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(TV STOPS)
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ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen...
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...please welcome 1972
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U.S. Open Women's
Singles Champion...
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...Billie Jean King.
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Have you seen this?
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No. Hey, Gladys.
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-You want a dance?
-I want a gun.
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They just snuck this out
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in the middle of the night.
Lowlifes.
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This is outrageous.
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And it's got Jack Kramer's
fingerprints all over it.
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You're absolutely
right it does.
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I know where he's hiding.
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You want to come?
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No. No, you go do your thing.
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But good luck.
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-Thank you very much, honey.
-Sure, Mr. Kramer.
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-Thank you.
-Of course.
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GLADYS: They won't get
away with it.
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Uh-oh.
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DOORMAN:
You can't go in there.
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SANDERS: Excuse me.
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Wait a minute.
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Surprised in their lair.
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This is an unexpected
pleasure. (STUTTERS)
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My goodness, you both look
sensational, if I may say.
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You may not.
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You're not supposed
to be in here, you know.
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Because I'm a woman
or because I'm a Jew, Bob?
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Please, you're welcome here.
Have a seat.
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What can we do for you?
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Would you like
a glass of something maybe?
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BILLIE JEAN: No,
thank you, Jack.
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I find it's best
to be clear before
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committing cold-blooded
murder, so...
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...clarify...
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-...the press release.
-Ah, yes.
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It says here
that you're offering
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the men's winner $12,000...
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...and $1,500 to the women's.
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Those are the terms.
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The men's prize
needs to be that high
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to attract the best players.
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We're trying to make this
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the most prestigious
tournament in America.
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And paying the women
less than ever
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makes it more prestigious.
Uh...
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Well, it's simply a question
of what we can afford.
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People pay to see
the men play.
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They're the draw.
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They're eight times
more of a draw?
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Sorry?
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You're offering
the men's winner
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eight times that of the women.
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Do we bring in
an eighth of the crowd?
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I don't know
percentages, but...
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They sold the exact
same amount of tickets
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to the women's final today
as the men's.
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-Isn't that right, Jack?
-Today, yeah, I suppose so.
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Same sales, same prize money.
Makes sense to me.
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KRAMER: Oh, come on.
Be reasonable.
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There's no way
that we could afford that.
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What's your argument, Jack?
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For one thing,
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the men have families
that they have to support.
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I'm the main breadwinner
in my family.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Look.
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The men are simply...
more exciting to watch.
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They are.
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-They're faster.
-Fact.
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-And stronger.
-Fact.
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-And more competitive.
-Just a fact.
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It's not your fault,
it's just...biology.
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That's not my point. We sell
the same amount of tickets.
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I'm sorry.
It's not going to happen.
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Well, if that's
the way it is...
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...we'll boycott
the tournament.
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Fact.
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Well, now...
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...we'll sure miss your pretty
faces, but go right ahead.
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Not only will we boycott,
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we'll set up
our own tournament.
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Fact.
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At the exact same time
as the Pacific Southwest.
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Fact.
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Be sure and send me tickets.
You have a good night, ladies.
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That'll never happen.
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Are we really gonna do this?
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Sure we're gonna do this.
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How are we gonna do this?
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No idea.
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Right.
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PRISCILLA:
Did you have a busy day?
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Run off my feet.
Not a minute to think.
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(SIGHS) Whatever it is
I'm supposed to be
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doing down there, Priscilla,
I'm not doing it.
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Well, Daddy told me
that he thinks
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you're an integral part
of the company.
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Huh. Integral.
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Like the stapler on my desk.
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PRISCILLA: Well, it's steady,
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and it's what
you need right now.
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BOBBY: I know. I know.
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I wonder how much peppercorns
are in here.
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I don't know, Junior.
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I'd say about a thousand.
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No way! There got to be at
least five thousand in there.
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I'd put a dollar
on a thousand.
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-Young man.
-BOBBY: Whoa, no, no, no.
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Young man, we do not gamble
at the dinner table.
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We do not gamble anyplace,
Bobby.
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Exactly.
We do not gamble anyplace.
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No, we do not.
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(SIGHS)
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(WHISPERS) One dollar.
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(WHISPERS) Come on.
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All right.
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Oh, you know what?
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I just remembered, I need
to go back to the office
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and finish up some work.
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Now?
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Your father has been
so supportive, honey,
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that I don't want
to let him down.
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Delicious. Thank you.
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See you later, kiddo.
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I'm doubling down on Jack.
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Bobby, we got $1,200
on the table!
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-$1,200, buddy!
-(LAUGHING)
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(DOGS BARK)
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KEN: Bobby, you're not allowed
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to have dogs
that good-looking.
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HERB: Miss one!
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BOBBY: We got him on the run,
here we go!
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We got him on the run!
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Put the chair out there!
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Two chairs
and I'll raise you $500 each.
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(DOGS BARKING)
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Give the racket to the dog!
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BOBBY: Oh, too good for you.
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(MEN EXCLAIM)
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Jack, for the love of God!
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JACK: Damn it.
BOBBY: Good game, Jack.
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JACK: I thought I had you
this time, I really did.
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BOBBY:
That was a fine, fine effort.
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Great try, great try.
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HANK:
No, don't come over here.
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What do you expect, Jack?
Bobby's the world champ.
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No, I had an advantage.
It was three against one.
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It was three against one.
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You know what?
He keeps betting me,
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I don't know
what to do about it.
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The thing about Jack is,
he can afford to lose.
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You got to think
about Priscilla, Bobby.
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What is she gonna say?
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-You still married, Bobby?
-BOBBY: Oh, barely.
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He sure will be if he shows up
in a Rolls-Royce.
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He sure as hell won't be if he
shows up in a Rolls-Royce.
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Why?
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Even Bobby will find it tough
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to talk his way out
of that one.
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"Oh, honey, this crazy day!
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"This guy on the corner just
gave me a Silver Shadow."
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Think that'll cut it?
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Talk his way out of it?
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The man just won himself
a Rolls-Royce!
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LORNIE:
Herb, you're not getting it.
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Bobby doesn't gamble anymore.
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HANK:
Oh, he don't gamble anymore!
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No, no, no.
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Gamblers Anonymous
once a week,
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shrink twice a week.
I'm a reformed man.
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-LORNIE: There you are.
-Oh, there you go.
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You know what? Actually,
Lornie's got a point.
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That vehicle's kind
of big to hide.
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Jack, why don't you just
keep it for a little while?
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You saying
I'm not good for a bet?
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No, no, no.
Just keep the engine warm
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-and don't nick up the paint.
-(MEN LAUGH)
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The Hundred Thousand Dollar Girl
Billie Jean King
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LORNIE: "$100,000 Girl?"
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You don't see even a senior
tour making a hundred G's.
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Oh, she reckons she ought
to get more than that.
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Same as the men.
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She's not happy with $100,000?
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That Billie Jean King,
what is her problem?
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Bobby, you got to remember,
nowadays it's all
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equality this, equality that.
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They're burning bras,
for God's sake.
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KEN: Why would they
ever pay the women
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the same as the guys?
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All I can tell you
is that there is nothing wrong
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with a nice girl in a short
skirt chasing a ball.
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BOBBY: You know,
I won the goddamn U.S. Open.
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I could beat Billie Jean King
or any of those women.
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But are they offering me
equal prize money on the tour?
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No, sir, I'm getting peanuts.
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-Hey, there's a bet for you.
-BOBBY: What's that?
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Bobby Riggs
vs. Billie Jean King.
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-I'd pay a lot to see that.
-(HAIR DRYER WHIRRING)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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BILLIE JEAN: Hey, everybody?
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I know
what you're all risking,
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because I'm risking
the exact same thing.
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More.
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BILLIE JEAN: No, not more.
The same.
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We're all putting our careers
on the line for this.
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So I just want to thank you
for your bravery.
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And your balls.
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(WOMEN LAUGH)
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Are we gonna get our hair
done before every event?
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Because I could
get used to this.
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The salon is a once-only
because the press is here.
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And because
I love you so much.
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Tomorrow the press won't be
here and I won't love you.
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This is a budget tour,
ladies--
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which means
you will be sharing rooms.
253
00:11:33,524 --> 00:11:34,566
So you might as well start
254
00:11:34,650 --> 00:11:35,692
getting to know
each other now.
255
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I call bunking with Val!
256
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I thought you were gonna
get us a sponsor, Gladys.
257
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GLADYS: I...was. I...
258
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...am, Rosie.
259
00:11:43,867 --> 00:11:47,788
It's just that right now
we are broke, so shut up.
260
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Well, wait. What about
our prize money?
261
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ROSIE: Oh, Val, why are you
worried about prize money?
262
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-You only get that if you win.
-(LAUGHTER)
263
00:11:54,461 --> 00:11:56,046
All right, you've got
30 minutes before
264
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you show your faces
to the press.
265
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-Hi.
-Hi.
266
00:12:00,134 --> 00:12:01,927
I've been moving around
too much, haven't I?
267
00:12:02,010 --> 00:12:03,137
Yeah.
268
00:12:03,470 --> 00:12:06,306
I'm sorry, I've been, uh...
I'm excited.
269
00:12:07,307 --> 00:12:08,976
Or nervous or something.
270
00:12:09,309 --> 00:12:12,646
-You're all tennis players?
-Yeah. You don't watch tennis?
271
00:12:12,980 --> 00:12:14,982
Oh, no. I don't have a TV.
272
00:12:15,315 --> 00:12:17,317
But I admire
what you guys are doing.
273
00:12:17,484 --> 00:12:19,361
Sounds like you girls are
getting men to pay attention
274
00:12:19,444 --> 00:12:21,238
to what you're saying
for once.
275
00:12:21,405 --> 00:12:22,906
You know what would
really get their attention?
276
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A sex strike.
277
00:12:24,324 --> 00:12:27,161
What? That would punish us
just as much as the men.
278
00:12:27,327 --> 00:12:28,912
VALERIE: I don't think
I'd even miss it.
279
00:12:29,079 --> 00:12:31,331
My ex went about it like
he was fixing the carburetor
280
00:12:31,415 --> 00:12:32,749
on the Oldsmobile.
281
00:12:32,916 --> 00:12:34,710
And he could never
get that damn car to start.
282
00:12:35,502 --> 00:12:36,795
VALERIE: Rosie, come on!
283
00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:38,213
At least women know
where the carburetor is.
284
00:12:40,257 --> 00:12:41,258
So...
285
00:12:41,592 --> 00:12:42,843
...Billie Jean...
286
00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,345
...what do you want?
287
00:12:48,182 --> 00:12:49,516
What do you mean?
288
00:12:51,852 --> 00:12:53,812
With your hair. What do you
want to do with it?
289
00:12:53,896 --> 00:12:55,898
-Oh.
-(BOTH CHUCKLE)
290
00:12:57,274 --> 00:12:58,483
It doesn't matter.
291
00:12:58,567 --> 00:13:00,110
You can just get it
out of my face.
292
00:13:00,277 --> 00:13:02,362
You don't care
about how you look?
293
00:13:03,530 --> 00:13:05,365
Someone as pretty as you?
294
00:13:08,035 --> 00:13:09,870
Uh, it's-- I'm not...
295
00:13:10,704 --> 00:13:12,289
...pret-- I mean, I don't...
296
00:13:13,707 --> 00:13:16,710
Thank you
for...for saying that.
297
00:13:20,380 --> 00:13:21,882
What's your name again?
298
00:13:22,883 --> 00:13:24,051
Marilyn.
299
00:13:29,806 --> 00:13:34,144
Would you let me just...
give you a little trim?
300
00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,233
It'll make you feel like
a whole new person.
301
00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,070
I don't think a haircut's ever
made me feel quite like that.
302
00:13:43,153 --> 00:13:44,154
(CHUCKLES)
303
00:13:48,325 --> 00:13:49,576
Is that perfume?
304
00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,828
It's lavender oil.
305
00:13:52,246 --> 00:13:55,082
I put it on my wrists
just to relax the customers.
306
00:13:55,415 --> 00:13:56,667
It's nice.
307
00:14:37,124 --> 00:14:38,292
I love it.
308
00:14:39,293 --> 00:14:40,294
-(POUNDING ON DOOR)
-ROSIE: Billie Jean!
309
00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:42,129
-Come on!
-I'm coming!
310
00:14:42,296 --> 00:14:43,297
All right!
311
00:14:43,380 --> 00:14:44,464
ROSIE:
What is she doing in there?
312
00:14:45,132 --> 00:14:48,218
-It was nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.
313
00:14:50,387 --> 00:14:51,888
You know what?
314
00:14:52,306 --> 00:14:54,599
We've got a tournament
in San Diego, actually,
315
00:14:54,683 --> 00:14:57,311
next month,
and I have a lot of tickets.
316
00:14:57,477 --> 00:14:59,229
So you could just
bring everyone and...
317
00:14:59,396 --> 00:15:01,315
-ROSIE: Billie Jean, let's go!
-It's a lot of fun.
318
00:15:01,481 --> 00:15:03,025
Yeah, everyone's
invited to come.
319
00:15:03,108 --> 00:15:04,901
Next month in San Diego.
320
00:15:05,068 --> 00:15:06,403
So...thank you again.
321
00:15:06,570 --> 00:15:07,821
Thank you.
322
00:15:08,155 --> 00:15:10,240
-Finally.
-PEACHES: We're gonna be late!
323
00:15:10,407 --> 00:15:12,909
Do you think there'll be
any cute photographers?
324
00:15:13,577 --> 00:15:15,412
GLADYS: Peaches, I know
he's very cute, but let's go.
325
00:15:15,495 --> 00:15:16,663
Girls, get in line.
326
00:15:16,830 --> 00:15:18,832
Get ready, and let's get
these contracts signed.
327
00:15:18,999 --> 00:15:20,125
LARRY: Welcome to the WTA.
328
00:15:20,208 --> 00:15:22,836
Thank you so much
for joining us.
329
00:15:24,004 --> 00:15:25,756
That makes you a professional.
330
00:15:26,173 --> 00:15:27,174
LARRY: Rosie, it's a pleasure.
331
00:15:27,257 --> 00:15:28,342
GLADYS:
Keep this going. Don't dawdle.
332
00:15:28,508 --> 00:15:29,760
ROSIE:
One dollar, Billie Jean.
333
00:15:29,843 --> 00:15:30,927
Yeah, a whole dollar is right.
334
00:15:31,094 --> 00:15:32,763
ROSIE: I'm gonna save it!
335
00:15:33,347 --> 00:15:34,514
Thank you. Welcome to the WTA.
336
00:15:34,598 --> 00:15:35,599
VALERIE: Where do we sit?
337
00:15:35,682 --> 00:15:36,683
Billie Jean.
338
00:15:39,019 --> 00:15:40,437
Guess who showed up.
339
00:15:42,022 --> 00:15:43,523
LARRY: Judy, come on.
Don't be shy.
340
00:15:43,607 --> 00:15:45,776
GLADYS: This is an exciting
day, girls. Look excited.
341
00:15:45,942 --> 00:15:47,444
LARRY: Thank you very much.
342
00:15:48,028 --> 00:15:50,697
Okay, girls. Come on,
let's start sitting, please.
343
00:15:50,864 --> 00:15:52,366
LARRY: It's a big day, ladies.
Kerry, you're next.
344
00:15:52,449 --> 00:15:53,533
GLADYS: We're gonna
take a big picture.
345
00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:54,701
Billie Jean...
346
00:15:55,619 --> 00:15:58,538
...what you're doing here
is a big mistake.
347
00:15:59,623 --> 00:16:01,958
Are you here to give us
another option, Jack?
348
00:16:02,292 --> 00:16:03,710
On behalf of the USLTA,
349
00:16:03,794 --> 00:16:07,297
I'm here to ask you girls
not to do anything hasty.
350
00:16:07,798 --> 00:16:09,466
So what are you offering?
351
00:16:10,217 --> 00:16:11,676
I'm offering to keep you in
352
00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,221
the United States
Lawn Tennis Association.
353
00:16:15,722 --> 00:16:17,224
You're kicking us out.
354
00:16:18,475 --> 00:16:20,227
You do this,
you're becoming our rivals.
355
00:16:20,310 --> 00:16:21,812
We have no option.
356
00:16:23,230 --> 00:16:24,606
I'll sure miss
your pretty face, Jack,
357
00:16:24,689 --> 00:16:26,233
but you go right ahead.
358
00:16:27,234 --> 00:16:29,027
GLADYS: Great.
And then we'll put Billie--
359
00:16:29,111 --> 00:16:31,238
I'm gonna have a very exciting
moment in a second.
360
00:16:31,405 --> 00:16:33,323
This is monumental.
Billie Jean?
361
00:16:33,824 --> 00:16:34,825
BILLIE JEAN: One minute!
362
00:16:34,991 --> 00:16:36,493
If you're not in the USLTA,
363
00:16:36,576 --> 00:16:38,495
you can't play
the Grand Slams.
364
00:16:38,662 --> 00:16:40,247
No Wimbledon. No nothing.
365
00:16:40,414 --> 00:16:41,915
I get it.
366
00:16:42,082 --> 00:16:43,166
But what are your Grand Slams
367
00:16:43,250 --> 00:16:45,419
without the greatest
women players in the world?
368
00:16:45,752 --> 00:16:47,337
They're not so grand.
369
00:16:47,921 --> 00:16:50,340
So I appreciate you coming,
Jack, very much...
370
00:16:50,507 --> 00:16:51,758
...but if you have
nothing to offer us,
371
00:16:51,842 --> 00:16:53,677
I have a contract to sign.
372
00:16:55,595 --> 00:16:56,763
Bye, Jack.
373
00:16:59,683 --> 00:17:03,353
GLADYS: Okay, girls, hold
those dollars up. Beautiful.
374
00:17:04,688 --> 00:17:06,857
Smile, girls.
This isn't a funeral.
375
00:17:07,190 --> 00:17:09,109
Hold up that dollar.
376
00:17:11,695 --> 00:17:12,863
Keep smiling, ladies,
377
00:17:12,946 --> 00:17:14,823
but we've just been
kicked out of the USLTA.
378
00:17:14,906 --> 00:17:15,907
PLAYERS: What?
379
00:17:17,033 --> 00:17:19,536
Wave them
so Jack can see them!
380
00:17:21,288 --> 00:17:25,125
Yep, it's a dollar, girls.
Remember that--one dollar.
381
00:17:38,263 --> 00:17:40,265
Is that it? For all of you?
382
00:17:40,557 --> 00:17:42,058
Can I have some ketchup?
383
00:17:44,436 --> 00:17:45,770
Who died?
384
00:17:46,396 --> 00:17:47,731
PLAYERS: Hey, Gladys.
385
00:17:48,064 --> 00:17:51,109
Oh, I get it.
It's all my fault.
386
00:17:51,276 --> 00:17:53,278
Well, Gladys has got
just the thing
387
00:17:53,403 --> 00:17:55,906
for you miserable ingrates.
388
00:17:59,576 --> 00:18:00,744
Cigarettes?
389
00:18:01,077 --> 00:18:03,246
Ladies and gentle-ladies,
may I present to you
390
00:18:03,288 --> 00:18:05,290
the Virginia Slims
Championships.
391
00:18:05,457 --> 00:18:08,293
A Gladys Heldman/Philip Morris
co-production.
392
00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:10,045
Smoking your guts out across
393
00:18:10,086 --> 00:18:11,421
the United States
of America...
394
00:18:11,588 --> 00:18:13,715
...in exchange for twelve
months funding...
395
00:18:13,965 --> 00:18:16,760
...and prize money
of--drum roll, please...
396
00:18:17,928 --> 00:18:18,929
(POUNDING TABLE)
397
00:18:19,429 --> 00:18:21,097
...$7,000.
398
00:18:21,264 --> 00:18:22,766
-VALERIE: Really?
-Way to go, Mom!
399
00:18:22,933 --> 00:18:24,976
-For every tournament?
-For every tournament.
400
00:18:25,143 --> 00:18:28,104
That ought to perk up
your lousy second serve.
401
00:18:28,438 --> 00:18:29,439
-(HACKING)
-(CHUCKLING)
402
00:18:29,773 --> 00:18:32,108
You do the tennis,
I'll do the smoking.
403
00:18:32,275 --> 00:18:35,111
My girls, from now on
we are fully funded.
404
00:18:35,487 --> 00:18:37,113
I put in a call
to Ted Tinling,
405
00:18:37,155 --> 00:18:40,492
who's gonna be our personal
couturier on tour.
406
00:18:40,992 --> 00:18:42,619
You're each gonna
have your own tennis dresses
407
00:18:42,661 --> 00:18:44,829
-designed specially for you.
-(PLAYERS GASP)
408
00:18:45,163 --> 00:18:46,748
And I put in a call
to every woman
409
00:18:46,790 --> 00:18:48,124
who's ever picked up a racket.
410
00:18:48,250 --> 00:18:49,251
Guess who's already signed on.
411
00:18:49,292 --> 00:18:50,335
Oh. Oh.
412
00:18:50,460 --> 00:18:52,337
Don't guess. Margaret Court.
413
00:18:52,504 --> 00:18:53,505
(ALL EXCLAIM)
414
00:18:53,672 --> 00:18:56,007
ROSIE: "The Arm."
Billie Jean, are you scared?
415
00:18:56,258 --> 00:18:57,467
I can take her.
416
00:18:57,759 --> 00:18:58,927
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
417
00:18:59,135 --> 00:19:00,804
GLADYS: Well, you'll get
your chance soon enough.
418
00:19:00,971 --> 00:19:03,098
Waitress!
Ice cream sundaes all around.
419
00:19:03,139 --> 00:19:05,141
We're in the money.
420
00:19:05,475 --> 00:19:06,476
But...
421
00:19:06,810 --> 00:19:09,187
...not all around.
Just my table and these two.
422
00:19:09,479 --> 00:19:12,148
TED: Let's try the buttercup,
lemony sort of hue.
423
00:19:12,315 --> 00:19:15,360
But I don't really feel it
pops with your complexion,
424
00:19:15,485 --> 00:19:17,153
so let's try the blue.
425
00:19:17,487 --> 00:19:19,322
Oh! It's wonderful, Ted.
426
00:19:19,489 --> 00:19:21,491
-You like it?
-I love it!
427
00:19:21,866 --> 00:19:23,159
And what will the esteemed
428
00:19:23,201 --> 00:19:25,537
Lawn Tennis Association
say about this?
429
00:19:26,204 --> 00:19:28,206
Ladies and gentlemen,
I give you,
430
00:19:28,331 --> 00:19:31,209
for the first time
in the history of tennis...
431
00:19:31,710 --> 00:19:32,836
...color!
432
00:19:33,211 --> 00:19:35,505
The shock will kill
the old dears.
433
00:19:50,395 --> 00:19:51,855
DJ: 87 KMRP.
434
00:19:51,980 --> 00:19:53,481
It's twelve minutes
after 7:00,
435
00:19:53,523 --> 00:19:55,400
and we are privileged,
tennis fans...
436
00:19:55,567 --> 00:19:58,028
...to have the great
Billie Jean King
437
00:19:58,069 --> 00:19:59,904
in the studio with us today,
along with a...
438
00:20:00,196 --> 00:20:02,574
...a lot of very lively
WTA tennis players.
439
00:20:02,699 --> 00:20:03,908
Say hi, ladies.
440
00:20:04,159 --> 00:20:05,327
TOGETHER: Hi.
441
00:20:05,577 --> 00:20:08,204
The word is that you gals
are renegades
442
00:20:08,330 --> 00:20:10,248
from the tennis establishment.
Is that right?
443
00:20:10,373 --> 00:20:11,374
BILLIE JEAN: Yeah.
444
00:20:11,416 --> 00:20:12,834
The U.S. Lawn
Tennis Association
445
00:20:12,876 --> 00:20:14,711
wasn't really giving us women
our fair share,
446
00:20:14,753 --> 00:20:16,046
so we thought...
447
00:20:16,379 --> 00:20:17,881
..."Hey, we'll do it
on our own."
448
00:20:18,048 --> 00:20:20,216
-Taking the bull by the horns.
-That's right.
449
00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:21,760
ROSIE:
Here's the inside scoop:
450
00:20:21,885 --> 00:20:22,927
We do everything.
451
00:20:23,178 --> 00:20:25,221
We are the ones laying down
the courts.
452
00:20:25,388 --> 00:20:27,057
We're selling tickets.
453
00:20:27,223 --> 00:20:28,224
We're doing publicity.
454
00:20:28,350 --> 00:20:30,852
And we have to fit in practice
somewhere in between there.
455
00:20:31,227 --> 00:20:32,729
BILLIE JEAN: We are also
trying to get tennis away
456
00:20:32,854 --> 00:20:34,731
from the stuffy old
country club sport.
457
00:20:35,065 --> 00:20:36,733
We want it to be
for everybody.
458
00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:39,861
It's 1973, so... we could
update a couple things.
459
00:20:39,903 --> 00:20:40,945
(ALL LAUGH)
460
00:20:41,071 --> 00:20:42,197
DJ: Now, you all
play each other
461
00:20:42,238 --> 00:20:43,365
in the tournaments and...
462
00:20:43,615 --> 00:20:45,575
...you room together as well.
463
00:20:45,909 --> 00:20:48,078
So how does that work
when you have to room
464
00:20:48,203 --> 00:20:49,454
with somebody
who just beat you...
465
00:20:49,621 --> 00:20:50,872
...or who you just defeated?
466
00:20:50,914 --> 00:20:52,916
It's fine,
because I usually win.
467
00:20:53,083 --> 00:20:54,876
BILLIE JEAN:
Oh. That's not true at all.
468
00:20:54,918 --> 00:20:56,586
It's fine if you're not
rooming with Rosie.
469
00:20:57,253 --> 00:20:59,756
Oh, okay. Don't room with
Rosie-- that's the message.
470
00:21:00,090 --> 00:21:03,176
We're also, you know,
united for a greater cause.
471
00:21:03,343 --> 00:21:05,053
So it keeps the focus
on something else.
472
00:21:05,095 --> 00:21:06,429
VALERIE:
It's bigger than the match.
473
00:21:06,596 --> 00:21:08,682
Nice to meet you. Bye!
474
00:21:08,848 --> 00:21:12,185
Do you all consider yourselves
women's libbers?
475
00:21:12,519 --> 00:21:14,020
JULIE: Oh, sure.
BILLIE JEAN: I think so.
476
00:21:14,187 --> 00:21:15,939
What we're doing here
is trying to prove
477
00:21:16,106 --> 00:21:18,441
that women should be paid
and respected equally.
478
00:21:18,608 --> 00:21:20,193
We're just as entertaining
as the men.
479
00:21:20,276 --> 00:21:21,736
You're definitely
cuter than the men.
480
00:21:21,861 --> 00:21:23,279
(ALL LAUGHING)
481
00:21:24,114 --> 00:21:26,282
DJ: It must get a little
lonely out there on the road.
482
00:21:26,408 --> 00:21:28,451
Don't you ever miss
your husbands?
483
00:21:29,035 --> 00:21:31,037
BILLIE JEAN:
Sure. Of course we do.
484
00:21:31,371 --> 00:21:33,707
I talk to Larry
on the phone every day.
485
00:21:33,873 --> 00:21:36,292
We're used to it. As pros,
we're not home very often.
486
00:21:36,543 --> 00:21:38,086
And some of us
don't have husbands.
487
00:21:38,128 --> 00:21:39,212
Whoa.
488
00:21:39,295 --> 00:21:40,964
Single men,
you heard it here first.
489
00:21:41,089 --> 00:21:43,299
Some of these ladies
are single themselves.
490
00:21:43,466 --> 00:21:46,052
Especially Peaches.
Come on out.
491
00:21:46,219 --> 00:21:48,221
-Yeah, bring your daughters.
-Or your sons.
492
00:21:48,388 --> 00:21:49,472
Or bring everyone.
493
00:21:49,597 --> 00:21:51,307
You could bring
your whole family.
494
00:21:51,474 --> 00:21:52,726
That's the point of this tour.
495
00:21:52,809 --> 00:21:55,478
It's for everyone,
and it's a whole lot of fun.
496
00:21:55,645 --> 00:21:57,731
You heard it here, folks.
We'll get in more music,
497
00:21:57,897 --> 00:21:59,065
but we got tickets
to give away,
498
00:21:59,149 --> 00:22:00,650
so give us a call.
499
00:22:00,817 --> 00:22:03,486
-Thanks for coming by, ladies.
-Thank you for having us.
500
00:22:03,653 --> 00:22:05,739
-Good luck.
-Come on out!
501
00:22:14,497 --> 00:22:16,833
It's not exactly the Ritz.
502
00:22:18,918 --> 00:22:21,004
Margaret Court!
Welcome to the nuthouse.
503
00:22:21,171 --> 00:22:22,839
-Hi, Ted.
-Hey, Margaret.
504
00:22:23,089 --> 00:22:24,090
Billie Jean.
505
00:22:24,424 --> 00:22:26,843
If you're looking for
the restaurant or the spa
506
00:22:26,968 --> 00:22:29,012
or the swimming pool,
there isn't one.
507
00:22:29,179 --> 00:22:30,346
But if you're looking
for the tickets
508
00:22:30,430 --> 00:22:32,432
you're gonna sell
at the intersection...
509
00:22:32,599 --> 00:22:33,933
they're right here.
510
00:22:34,267 --> 00:22:36,603
Have a lovely evening.
Darling child.
511
00:22:45,528 --> 00:22:46,654
MARGARET:
She's never liked me.
512
00:22:46,696 --> 00:22:48,031
BARRY: Who? Gladys?
513
00:22:48,198 --> 00:22:50,366
MARGARET: No, the great
Billie Jean King.
514
00:22:51,284 --> 00:22:52,368
BARRY:
You just do your talking
515
00:22:52,452 --> 00:22:53,787
on the court, honey.
516
00:22:54,871 --> 00:22:56,623
Come on, cross over!
517
00:22:56,790 --> 00:22:59,375
-You can do it. There you go.
-Watch out for the alligators.
518
00:22:59,542 --> 00:23:00,835
I'm watching out
for the alligator.
519
00:23:00,877 --> 00:23:02,295
You watch out
for the alligator.
520
00:23:02,462 --> 00:23:04,464
I'm going across
the wobbly bridge.
521
00:23:04,798 --> 00:23:07,217
Your mother's always
watching us. Right here.
522
00:23:07,467 --> 00:23:08,635
Right here. Okay.
523
00:23:08,843 --> 00:23:10,053
That'll burn you
right to the bones.
524
00:23:10,136 --> 00:23:11,346
That's quicksand.
525
00:23:11,513 --> 00:23:13,723
That's quicksand, all right.
Acid quicksand.
526
00:23:13,807 --> 00:23:15,225
That's why you never
see any of your siblings.
527
00:23:16,142 --> 00:23:17,852
Two rocks.
Don't fall in the quicksand!
528
00:23:17,894 --> 00:23:19,479
Don't fall in the quicksand!
529
00:23:19,813 --> 00:23:22,482
Okay. One more rock
and we're there.
530
00:23:22,816 --> 00:23:24,818
-Good. You got it.
-What if I don't make it?
531
00:23:24,984 --> 00:23:26,069
You can make it!
You're a Riggs,
532
00:23:26,152 --> 00:23:28,071
you're gonna make it.
One, two, three...
533
00:23:28,822 --> 00:23:30,824
-Whoa, whoa.
-(DOORBELL RINGS)
534
00:23:31,658 --> 00:23:33,493
Well, we almost made it.
535
00:23:37,330 --> 00:23:39,249
Hey, honey!
Could you get that?
536
00:23:39,374 --> 00:23:40,416
PRISCILLA: Okay.
537
00:23:40,583 --> 00:23:42,335
I'm reading Junior a story.
538
00:23:46,422 --> 00:23:47,423
Bobby?
539
00:23:47,715 --> 00:23:49,384
Do you know anything
about a, uh...
540
00:23:49,592 --> 00:23:52,262
Rolls-Royce! Cool!
541
00:23:52,929 --> 00:23:54,430
BOBBY: (SOFTLY) Damn it, Jack.
542
00:23:56,224 --> 00:23:58,393
JUNIOR: Mom, it's got a TV!
543
00:23:59,894 --> 00:24:00,895
Oh, my God.
544
00:24:01,187 --> 00:24:02,939
I know, I know. Um...
545
00:24:03,273 --> 00:24:04,399
It was Jack's idea.
546
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,942
You are like a little kid,
you know that?
547
00:24:06,109 --> 00:24:07,777
Well, you're good with kids.
548
00:24:07,944 --> 00:24:09,445
After everything
we talked about?
549
00:24:09,571 --> 00:24:11,447
Everything you promised me?
550
00:24:16,786 --> 00:24:18,955
Okay, okay, I get it.
Give me those.
551
00:24:20,123 --> 00:24:21,207
(SIGHS)
552
00:24:21,291 --> 00:24:22,959
Where are you going?
553
00:24:23,918 --> 00:24:25,920
-Can I come, too?
-No, you can't come.
554
00:24:26,212 --> 00:24:27,297
Junior!
555
00:24:29,132 --> 00:24:30,133
(ENGINE STARTS)
556
00:24:32,302 --> 00:24:34,304
MARGARET: All right.
BOY: Thanks, Mrs. Court.
557
00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:35,972
Thanks for coming.
558
00:24:36,973 --> 00:24:39,475
-Did you like it?
-It was amazing.
559
00:24:41,227 --> 00:24:43,062
-Thanks for coming.
-Thank you.
560
00:24:43,229 --> 00:24:45,148
-Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.
561
00:24:45,481 --> 00:24:46,649
Nice hair.
562
00:24:47,317 --> 00:24:48,651
You came!
563
00:24:48,985 --> 00:24:51,571
Why didn't you tell me
how good you are?
564
00:24:52,238 --> 00:24:53,573
Ah, well.
565
00:24:55,742 --> 00:24:57,327
Can I ask you a question?
566
00:24:57,994 --> 00:25:00,496
You may. I may not answer it.
567
00:25:01,998 --> 00:25:03,583
MARILYN: Do you like dancing?
568
00:25:05,084 --> 00:25:06,252
I do.
569
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,921
Yeah.
570
00:25:08,338 --> 00:25:09,339
(SONG PLAYING)
571
00:25:12,342 --> 00:25:16,179
I wish she'd come walking over
572
00:25:18,514 --> 00:25:22,435
Now I've been waiting
to show her
573
00:25:25,188 --> 00:25:28,358
Crimson and clover
574
00:25:31,235 --> 00:25:34,530
Over and over
575
00:25:36,616 --> 00:25:38,785
MARILYN: I can't believe
how you move on the court.
576
00:25:38,868 --> 00:25:41,371
It's like watching
some kind of...
577
00:25:41,704 --> 00:25:43,206
...wild animal.
578
00:25:43,456 --> 00:25:45,458
Aw, come on.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
579
00:25:45,625 --> 00:25:49,796
Enjoyed it? I've never seen
anything like it! It was...
580
00:25:50,964 --> 00:25:52,882
It must be intoxicating.
581
00:25:53,466 --> 00:25:55,051
What? Playing tennis?
582
00:25:57,220 --> 00:25:59,055
Being inside your skin.
583
00:25:59,639 --> 00:26:00,974
MAN: Excuse me.
584
00:26:01,641 --> 00:26:04,143
I'm so sorry for doing this.
585
00:26:04,477 --> 00:26:06,813
Mrs. King,
I'm such a huge fan.
586
00:26:06,896 --> 00:26:08,481
Oh. Thank you so much.
587
00:26:08,648 --> 00:26:11,234
-I'm Miles.
-Miles. Great to meet you.
588
00:26:11,484 --> 00:26:13,486
Do you dance
as well as you serve?
589
00:26:13,820 --> 00:26:15,113
Oh, thanks, I don't think--
590
00:26:15,196 --> 00:26:17,240
Tonight we're just gonna
stay here and watch.
591
00:26:17,407 --> 00:26:19,325
-Okay.
-But nice to meet you, Miles.
592
00:26:19,492 --> 00:26:20,576
You, too.
593
00:26:21,327 --> 00:26:22,996
I'd love to dance!
594
00:26:24,664 --> 00:26:26,165
Well, sure thing.
595
00:26:47,770 --> 00:26:50,398
Crimson and clover
596
00:26:50,565 --> 00:26:52,817
Over and over
597
00:26:53,484 --> 00:26:56,070
Crimson and clover
598
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,656
Over and over
599
00:26:59,157 --> 00:27:01,701
Crimson and clover
600
00:27:02,118 --> 00:27:03,619
Over and over
601
00:27:03,745 --> 00:27:05,413
LADIES
602
00:27:05,538 --> 00:27:07,665
Crimson and clover
603
00:27:07,915 --> 00:27:10,376
Over and over
604
00:27:13,796 --> 00:27:15,381
Let me do yours?
605
00:27:16,591 --> 00:27:17,592
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
606
00:27:25,641 --> 00:27:27,060
You're perfect.
607
00:27:28,352 --> 00:27:29,353
(LAUGHS)
608
00:27:32,815 --> 00:27:34,984
-I got to go soon.
-What?
609
00:27:35,318 --> 00:27:36,652
-No.
-Yeah.
610
00:27:36,819 --> 00:27:38,654
I got to get a bus
back to L.A.
611
00:27:38,821 --> 00:27:40,031
No, it's too late for that.
612
00:27:40,114 --> 00:27:41,908
You can't take
a bus right now.
613
00:27:42,825 --> 00:27:44,494
You can stay in my room.
614
00:27:45,328 --> 00:27:47,997
I've got two beds.
Honestly, it's no trouble.
615
00:27:48,664 --> 00:27:49,665
Okay.
616
00:27:50,416 --> 00:27:51,417
Thanks.
617
00:27:51,834 --> 00:27:53,252
Sure. Yeah.
618
00:28:02,011 --> 00:28:03,346
This is me.
619
00:28:03,846 --> 00:28:04,847
Us.
620
00:28:05,264 --> 00:28:06,265
Me.
621
00:28:06,516 --> 00:28:07,558
(MARILYN CHUCKLES)
622
00:28:17,193 --> 00:28:18,736
So, Gladys used to
make us share rooms,
623
00:28:18,820 --> 00:28:20,696
but we can afford our own now.
624
00:28:21,948 --> 00:28:23,449
I usually take the bed
closest to the window.
625
00:28:23,533 --> 00:28:26,285
But it's fine! Take whichever
one you want.
626
00:28:53,396 --> 00:28:54,730
I'm married.
627
00:28:57,733 --> 00:28:59,068
That's okay.
628
00:28:59,777 --> 00:29:02,446
I've got a boyfriend. Sort of.
629
00:29:04,740 --> 00:29:06,242
But you, uh...
630
00:29:07,910 --> 00:29:09,245
...you...
631
00:29:12,999 --> 00:29:15,334
...with women...too?
632
00:29:18,087 --> 00:29:19,088
Yeah.
633
00:29:20,756 --> 00:29:22,758
-Do you?
-No.
634
00:29:24,260 --> 00:29:25,761
No, never. I'm...
635
00:29:27,597 --> 00:29:29,599
There's only ever been Larry.
636
00:29:32,351 --> 00:29:33,686
So...
637
00:29:35,771 --> 00:29:37,273
...can I kiss you?
638
00:30:01,797 --> 00:30:04,550
We can take it slow,
that's okay. There's no--
639
00:30:41,921 --> 00:30:43,339
WOMAN 1: (ON TV)
I have to, Mare.
640
00:30:43,422 --> 00:30:46,092
It's one of the few sure
things I can count on in life.
641
00:30:46,259 --> 00:30:47,301
WOMAN 2: Come on, Rhoda.
642
00:30:47,385 --> 00:30:48,844
You love your mother
and you know it.
643
00:30:49,011 --> 00:30:50,346
WOMAN 1: Of course I love her.
644
00:30:50,513 --> 00:30:51,722
I just think she's holding
a grudge because
645
00:30:51,889 --> 00:30:53,015
I didn't go
into the profession
646
00:30:53,099 --> 00:30:54,350
she picked out for me:
647
00:30:54,517 --> 00:30:55,851
Housewife.
648
00:30:57,478 --> 00:30:58,521
(KNOCKING ON DOOR ON TV)
649
00:30:58,604 --> 00:31:00,439
My mother, she's here!
650
00:31:03,025 --> 00:31:04,026
You're beautiful.
651
00:31:04,193 --> 00:31:05,361
REPORTER:
And in sporting news,
652
00:31:05,444 --> 00:31:07,446
we turn to the world
of women's tennis...
653
00:31:07,613 --> 00:31:10,199
...as Billie Jean King beat
Kristy Pigeon today,
654
00:31:10,283 --> 00:31:12,618
two sets to zero,
in San Diego.
655
00:31:12,952 --> 00:31:15,788
Next, the Virginia Slims tour
heads to Los Angeles.
656
00:31:16,122 --> 00:31:18,708
In baseball, the Yankees
have started 0 and 3
657
00:31:18,833 --> 00:31:21,127
after being swept on the road
by the Red Sox.
658
00:31:21,836 --> 00:31:24,338
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
659
00:31:31,053 --> 00:31:32,054
(TELEPHONE RINGS)
660
00:31:33,389 --> 00:31:34,724
Oh, it's Larry.
661
00:31:35,391 --> 00:31:37,143
Oh, God, what if it's Gladys?
662
00:31:37,476 --> 00:31:39,145
Jesus,
what if it's my parents?
663
00:31:39,312 --> 00:31:41,731
Well, none of 'em can see
down the phone, can they?
664
00:31:41,897 --> 00:31:43,983
Don't joke. Don't joke.
Just don't...
665
00:31:44,317 --> 00:31:45,526
Don't say anything, okay?
666
00:31:45,568 --> 00:31:48,321
Just be quiet.
Just be quiet, okay?
667
00:31:49,989 --> 00:31:50,990
Hello?
668
00:31:51,324 --> 00:31:52,658
BOBBY: Eureka!
669
00:31:52,992 --> 00:31:55,328
-Hello?
-Eureka, Billie Jean!
670
00:31:55,411 --> 00:31:56,412
Who is this?
671
00:31:56,579 --> 00:31:58,247
It's Bobby. Bobby Riggs.
672
00:31:58,414 --> 00:32:00,916
Bobby?
How'd you get my number?
673
00:32:01,083 --> 00:32:02,668
Called every hotel
in San Diego.
674
00:32:02,752 --> 00:32:04,420
Listen, I had a great idea.
675
00:32:04,587 --> 00:32:06,380
Okay. Well, it's after
midnight, Bobby,
676
00:32:06,422 --> 00:32:08,007
so can we talk another time?
677
00:32:08,174 --> 00:32:09,175
You and me, Billie Jean.
678
00:32:09,258 --> 00:32:11,594
Three sets,
five sets--your choice.
679
00:32:12,261 --> 00:32:14,597
-Are you drunk, Bobby?
-No, of course not!
680
00:32:14,847 --> 00:32:17,350
How about this:
"Man vs. Woman."
681
00:32:17,683 --> 00:32:20,519
"Male Chauvinist Pig
vs. Hairy-Legged Feminist".
682
00:32:20,728 --> 00:32:22,605
No offense. You're still
a feminist, right?
683
00:32:23,856 --> 00:32:26,192
No, I'm a tennis player
who happens to be a woman.
684
00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:28,361
That's right.
That's exactly who you are.
685
00:32:28,527 --> 00:32:31,697
And I am a tennis player
who happens to be a man...
686
00:32:31,864 --> 00:32:34,200
...who says that he can beat
any woman on the planet.
687
00:32:34,367 --> 00:32:36,535
Think of the publicity that
we get. Think of the money.
688
00:32:36,619 --> 00:32:37,620
No.
689
00:32:37,953 --> 00:32:39,455
Thirty-five grand.
690
00:32:39,789 --> 00:32:41,415
Where'd you get
that kind of money?
691
00:32:41,582 --> 00:32:43,959
-You see? You're tempted.
-I'm really not.
692
00:32:44,126 --> 00:32:45,753
I'm not interested, Bobby.
Good night.
693
00:32:45,795 --> 00:32:47,088
Don't hang up.
694
00:32:47,254 --> 00:32:49,590
And by the way,
I shave my legs.
695
00:32:50,466 --> 00:32:51,467
(SIGHS)
696
00:32:53,135 --> 00:32:54,637
Who was that?
697
00:32:54,970 --> 00:32:58,140
That was just some crazy old
hustler trying to get a game.
698
00:32:58,808 --> 00:32:59,892
I hope you don't mind.
699
00:32:59,975 --> 00:33:01,811
I borrowed something
to sleep in.
700
00:33:04,146 --> 00:33:05,314
Marilyn.
701
00:33:07,650 --> 00:33:08,651
Ah.
702
00:33:10,653 --> 00:33:12,822
You're gonna give me
the speech, aren't you?
703
00:33:12,988 --> 00:33:14,490
I'm sorry.
704
00:33:15,658 --> 00:33:16,992
Whatever I...
705
00:33:17,827 --> 00:33:20,996
...may feel,
I can't act on it.
706
00:33:23,499 --> 00:33:26,419
There's too much at stake.
I mean the tennis tour and...
707
00:33:26,502 --> 00:33:27,503
Yeah.
708
00:33:27,795 --> 00:33:29,505
And I have my husband.
709
00:33:30,005 --> 00:33:31,590
He's a great...
710
00:33:31,924 --> 00:33:35,261
...person, and he would be
heartbroken if he found out.
711
00:33:35,594 --> 00:33:37,930
And my parents
would never speak to me again.
712
00:33:38,264 --> 00:33:39,598
Hey, hey, hey.
713
00:33:40,433 --> 00:33:41,767
I get it.
714
00:33:42,601 --> 00:33:43,769
Okay.
715
00:33:53,946 --> 00:33:55,197
Oh, hey.
716
00:33:56,031 --> 00:33:57,116
Thanks.
717
00:34:02,621 --> 00:34:04,290
-'Night.
-Good night.
718
00:34:18,804 --> 00:34:20,222
(RUSTLING)
719
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:24,560
Hi.
720
00:34:34,487 --> 00:34:35,488
LARRY RIGGS: Hello?
721
00:34:36,071 --> 00:34:37,740
Larry, are you awake?
722
00:34:38,073 --> 00:34:39,909
-Dad?
-Can I come up?
723
00:34:40,743 --> 00:34:42,077
Okay.
724
00:34:42,203 --> 00:34:43,204
(DOOR BUZZES)
725
00:34:51,003 --> 00:34:52,505
Hey there, kiddo.
726
00:34:52,671 --> 00:34:53,672
Hey.
727
00:34:56,926 --> 00:34:58,427
Just for tonight.
728
00:34:59,845 --> 00:35:01,430
Maybe tomorrow.
729
00:35:01,722 --> 00:35:02,890
Sure, sure.
730
00:35:06,018 --> 00:35:08,020
Oh, a little misunderstanding.
731
00:35:08,354 --> 00:35:10,689
Sometimes Priscilla
goes off the deep end.
732
00:35:11,273 --> 00:35:13,275
Oh, hey... did you see
my Rolls-Royce?
733
00:35:14,193 --> 00:35:16,111
Yeah, that's cool, Dad.
734
00:35:16,445 --> 00:35:17,613
You gonna live in it?
735
00:35:17,738 --> 00:35:19,949
Yeah, well, I could. I could.
It's big enough.
736
00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:22,868
But no, no, no.
I got plans, Larry. Big plans.
737
00:35:22,952 --> 00:35:23,953
Right.
738
00:35:25,621 --> 00:35:28,457
Yeah, well, I've...heard 'em.
739
00:35:29,542 --> 00:35:30,876
All of 'em.
740
00:35:31,627 --> 00:35:33,963
-Good night, kiddo.
-Good night, Dad.
741
00:35:45,474 --> 00:35:47,309
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
742
00:35:50,062 --> 00:35:51,397
Priscilla!
743
00:35:52,314 --> 00:35:53,649
Honey!
744
00:35:54,733 --> 00:35:55,818
Honey!
745
00:35:56,151 --> 00:35:57,861
Honey, come on.
746
00:35:58,195 --> 00:36:00,489
Not even a fresh pair
of underpants?
747
00:36:01,156 --> 00:36:02,491
Toothbrush?
748
00:36:05,202 --> 00:36:07,663
Can't we just talk about this?
749
00:36:12,209 --> 00:36:14,003
You know-- Oh.
750
00:36:17,464 --> 00:36:18,465
Oh.
751
00:36:21,176 --> 00:36:22,511
Thank you!
752
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,687
My name is Bobby
and I am an addict.
753
00:36:31,854 --> 00:36:33,188
GROUP: Hi, Bobby.
754
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,357
BOBBY: At least
that's what Priscilla says.
755
00:36:36,233 --> 00:36:38,694
She's gonna leave me
unless I quit gambling.
756
00:36:40,904 --> 00:36:42,906
Puzzles me, though,
that word: "Gambling."
757
00:36:44,867 --> 00:36:46,577
Whenever Priscilla gets a car
out of the garage,
758
00:36:46,702 --> 00:36:47,870
she's gambling big time.
759
00:36:48,037 --> 00:36:50,497
Never checks the mirror.
Sticks it in reverse.
760
00:36:50,581 --> 00:36:52,374
Puts her foot down,
right out onto the highway.
761
00:36:52,541 --> 00:36:54,877
Jeez Louise, that's gambling!
762
00:36:55,044 --> 00:36:57,421
But here I am,
Gamblers Anonymous.
763
00:36:58,088 --> 00:37:00,257
And your point is what, Bobby?
764
00:37:00,591 --> 00:37:03,427
My point is this:
Life's a gamble, right?
765
00:37:03,761 --> 00:37:05,262
That's the thrill of it!
766
00:37:05,596 --> 00:37:07,014
You know,
you folks aren't here
767
00:37:07,056 --> 00:37:08,515
because you're gamblers.
768
00:37:08,932 --> 00:37:11,769
You are here because
you are terrible gamblers.
769
00:37:11,935 --> 00:37:12,936
Well, let's--
770
00:37:13,103 --> 00:37:16,398
That's the problem. You lose,
and that's why you're here.
771
00:37:16,565 --> 00:37:17,566
Okay, Bobby--
772
00:37:17,733 --> 00:37:18,901
I've been looking at you
guys yammering on
773
00:37:19,026 --> 00:37:20,569
about all of your stuff and...
774
00:37:20,736 --> 00:37:23,113
..."Oh, woe is me"
and "This is terrible."
775
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,907
But you know
what the problem is?
776
00:37:24,948 --> 00:37:26,450
The problem is
you don't have a "thing."
777
00:37:26,617 --> 00:37:28,285
-LEADER: Can we just--
-They don't have a thing.
778
00:37:28,452 --> 00:37:30,120
They need an edge.
You need an angle,
779
00:37:30,245 --> 00:37:31,914
an inside track, something...
780
00:37:32,081 --> 00:37:34,625
...that's gonna turn you from
being a gambler to a hustler.
781
00:37:34,792 --> 00:37:37,044
-All right, Bobby, thank you.
-From a loser to a winner.
782
00:37:37,211 --> 00:37:39,046
Why should we give up
the one thing in life
783
00:37:39,088 --> 00:37:40,255
that we really love?
784
00:37:40,964 --> 00:37:43,217
These folks don't need to stop
what they're doing,
785
00:37:43,258 --> 00:37:44,635
they just need
to get better at it.
786
00:37:44,802 --> 00:37:46,929
-Okay, Bobby, please.
-Who's dealing? Who's in?
787
00:37:47,638 --> 00:37:48,639
Huh?
788
00:37:50,265 --> 00:37:51,600
I'm heartbroken.
789
00:37:51,934 --> 00:37:53,811
I don't know why
she won't meet me halfway.
790
00:37:53,936 --> 00:37:56,146
I mean, is that too
unreasonable to ask?
791
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:57,815
Have you considered
you might be
792
00:37:57,940 --> 00:37:59,483
coming at this from
the wrong angle?
793
00:37:59,650 --> 00:38:02,945
Every angle, Doc. I have tried
every angle, believe me.
794
00:38:03,112 --> 00:38:04,780
I know we've discussed
this before.
795
00:38:04,822 --> 00:38:06,448
Oh, I don't know.
796
00:38:06,615 --> 00:38:09,284
You're an alpha male.
She's an alpha female.
797
00:38:09,451 --> 00:38:10,619
Maybe you have
to face the fact
798
00:38:10,661 --> 00:38:12,454
that she's just not
the right woman for you.
799
00:38:12,621 --> 00:38:14,456
Nah, I understand
what you're saying...
800
00:38:14,623 --> 00:38:15,833
...but Billie Jean would make
801
00:38:15,958 --> 00:38:18,127
the best match
by a million miles.
802
00:38:18,293 --> 00:38:22,297
She is the leader of
these women. The face.
803
00:38:22,631 --> 00:38:25,467
At this rate, she's not even
gonna be Number 1 next season.
804
00:38:25,676 --> 00:38:26,677
She's not?
805
00:38:26,844 --> 00:38:29,012
Nope. Margaret Court.
806
00:38:29,638 --> 00:38:32,349
Really? The Arm's
gonna be Number 1?
807
00:38:33,809 --> 00:38:34,810
Huh.
808
00:38:35,352 --> 00:38:36,520
Stick or twist?
809
00:38:37,688 --> 00:38:38,689
Twist.
810
00:38:40,023 --> 00:38:42,025
Jack of Hearts. Too bad.
811
00:38:42,484 --> 00:38:45,529
The point is, not only is
Margaret gonna be Number 1...
812
00:38:45,696 --> 00:38:47,865
...but she's a different
kind of woman.
813
00:38:48,031 --> 00:38:49,825
You think she'd play me?
814
00:38:49,992 --> 00:38:51,827
She's a nice old-fashioned
girl, Bobby.
815
00:38:51,869 --> 00:38:53,620
She'll do as
she's damn well told.
816
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,169
I shouldn't have had so much
to drink last night.
817
00:39:00,294 --> 00:39:01,503
It's inexcusable.
818
00:39:01,837 --> 00:39:03,338
MARILYN:
You had like half a drink.
819
00:39:03,505 --> 00:39:05,299
Well...that's half
a drink too many.
820
00:39:05,340 --> 00:39:06,675
It's the finals this week.
821
00:39:06,842 --> 00:39:10,179
-Where are my keys?
-I think they're in your hand.
822
00:39:10,846 --> 00:39:12,681
Thank you. Okay.
823
00:39:13,849 --> 00:39:14,975
You should leave now.
824
00:39:15,017 --> 00:39:16,226
Then I'll follow
in about five minutes.
825
00:39:16,351 --> 00:39:17,352
All right.
826
00:39:17,394 --> 00:39:18,729
Or actually that will
seem suspicious.
827
00:39:18,854 --> 00:39:20,063
Maybe you should
just stay here.
828
00:39:20,230 --> 00:39:21,231
Okay.
829
00:39:23,358 --> 00:39:25,694
You said you'd give me a ride.
830
00:39:26,236 --> 00:39:28,238
Right. Right.
831
00:39:28,697 --> 00:39:30,032
Right on. Okay.
832
00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:32,409
-Ready to go? Got everything?
-Yeah.
833
00:39:32,576 --> 00:39:34,745
Sorry about that.
I'm just a little...
834
00:39:42,544 --> 00:39:44,421
TED: Be careful
with that mannequin, Henry.
835
00:39:44,546 --> 00:39:46,381
Of course, Ted.
836
00:39:49,051 --> 00:39:50,886
Well, look what we have here.
837
00:39:51,053 --> 00:39:52,054
HENRY: Late!
838
00:39:52,179 --> 00:39:54,056
And a little déshabillé,
wouldn't you say?
839
00:39:54,223 --> 00:39:57,059
I would, Henry.
I most definitely would.
840
00:39:57,392 --> 00:39:59,353
(SOFTLY) And what
do you think Larry would say?
841
00:39:59,394 --> 00:40:00,687
He must know.
842
00:40:01,897 --> 00:40:03,398
Well, there's knowing...
843
00:40:03,732 --> 00:40:05,067
...and there's knowing.
844
00:40:05,234 --> 00:40:06,443
GLADYS:
Nobody later than four.
845
00:40:06,568 --> 00:40:07,611
Rosie? Where's Rosie?
846
00:40:07,736 --> 00:40:08,737
ROSIE: I'm here.
847
00:40:10,072 --> 00:40:11,907
No more
speeding tickets, okay?
848
00:40:12,032 --> 00:40:14,076
This is tennis, not NASCAR.
849
00:40:14,409 --> 00:40:16,745
And girls, I am begging you,
for God's sake--
850
00:40:16,787 --> 00:40:18,580
some Slims at the photo call.
851
00:40:18,747 --> 00:40:20,374
They've been great to us,
852
00:40:20,415 --> 00:40:22,709
and we need them
to renew our contract.
853
00:40:22,876 --> 00:40:25,420
And I like it.
I mean, look at me. Mmm.
854
00:40:26,547 --> 00:40:27,548
Right?
855
00:40:28,257 --> 00:40:30,217
You're late. And who's that?
856
00:40:31,301 --> 00:40:33,804
This? My, uh, my friend.
857
00:40:34,429 --> 00:40:36,932
Marilyn from the salon in L.A.
858
00:40:37,266 --> 00:40:38,559
Wait, is she coming
on tour with us?
859
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:39,726
That's a great idea.
860
00:40:39,893 --> 00:40:41,103
Oh, no, she is not.
861
00:40:41,270 --> 00:40:43,105
Please, Gladys. With all
the photo shoots we're doing,
862
00:40:43,230 --> 00:40:44,273
we need a hairdresser.
863
00:40:44,439 --> 00:40:46,066
That would be an N
followed by an O.
864
00:40:46,108 --> 00:40:47,276
How's your spelling, Val?
865
00:40:47,442 --> 00:40:49,611
No, no, no. She lives in L.A.
866
00:40:49,778 --> 00:40:51,613
She works at the salon in L.A.
867
00:40:51,738 --> 00:40:53,282
She can't just come
on the road.
868
00:40:53,448 --> 00:40:54,950
-JULIE: Come on.
-It's not-- No.
869
00:40:55,117 --> 00:40:58,412
They're not gonna miss me
for just a few days.
870
00:40:59,788 --> 00:41:01,832
ROSIE: Yeah. I mean,
we could all pay a little bit.
871
00:41:02,082 --> 00:41:03,750
PEACHES: Yes, please, Gladys?
Look at them!
872
00:41:03,792 --> 00:41:05,752
They get in my eyes.
I can't see the ball.
873
00:41:05,919 --> 00:41:06,920
JULIE: Please, Mom?
874
00:41:07,087 --> 00:41:09,256
Please, I've had no time
to get these bangs done.
875
00:41:09,423 --> 00:41:10,591
It's a great idea, Mom.
876
00:41:10,632 --> 00:41:12,301
VALERIE: Imagine having
your own stylist.
877
00:41:12,467 --> 00:41:13,760
JULIE:
Just for a little while.
878
00:41:13,927 --> 00:41:15,596
Can you do anything with this?
879
00:41:15,762 --> 00:41:17,472
Of course! Yeah.
880
00:41:18,724 --> 00:41:20,225
Ugh. Get in the car.
881
00:41:20,475 --> 00:41:21,476
(ALL CHEER)
882
00:41:23,770 --> 00:41:25,606
Is this okay?
883
00:41:26,773 --> 00:41:29,443
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's good.
884
00:41:52,174 --> 00:41:53,175
Hello.
885
00:41:53,342 --> 00:41:55,969
You do know what she is,
don't you? That...
886
00:41:56,303 --> 00:41:57,971
...woman with Billie Jean?
887
00:41:59,598 --> 00:42:00,599
Hairdresser?
888
00:42:01,308 --> 00:42:02,809
I think it's her lover.
889
00:42:04,478 --> 00:42:05,812
That girl?
890
00:42:06,688 --> 00:42:08,190
And Billie Jean?
891
00:42:08,857 --> 00:42:10,108
She's married.
892
00:42:11,026 --> 00:42:12,361
They usually are.
893
00:42:13,654 --> 00:42:16,156
That's what happens on an
all-women circuit, Barry.
894
00:42:16,365 --> 00:42:19,368
Licentiousness. Immorality.
895
00:42:19,993 --> 00:42:20,994
Sin.
896
00:42:21,495 --> 00:42:23,872
Really? Because she shouldn't
be allowed on tour.
897
00:42:24,206 --> 00:42:25,666
On the contrary.
898
00:42:26,166 --> 00:42:28,001
Well, isn't she ashamed
of herself?
899
00:42:28,168 --> 00:42:30,712
She is ashamed.
That's exactly what she is.
900
00:42:31,338 --> 00:42:33,048
And her game's
gonna fall to pieces.
901
00:42:33,173 --> 00:42:34,174
(SONG PLAYING)
902
00:42:34,341 --> 00:42:37,177
She packed my bags last night
903
00:42:37,219 --> 00:42:38,303
Pre-flight
904
00:42:41,556 --> 00:42:44,893
Zero hour, 9:00 am
905
00:42:48,063 --> 00:42:52,025
And I'm gonna be high...
906
00:42:52,067 --> 00:42:53,068
(REDUCES VOLUME)
907
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,196
What happened last night
can't happen again.
908
00:42:57,906 --> 00:42:59,908
We have to stop
fooling around.
909
00:43:00,701 --> 00:43:03,912
I wasn't fooling around.
I was dead serious.
910
00:43:04,246 --> 00:43:05,247
Listen.
911
00:43:05,747 --> 00:43:07,416
Larry doesn't even
come on tour with me,
912
00:43:07,541 --> 00:43:09,251
because I can't have
the distraction.
913
00:43:09,418 --> 00:43:12,045
I have to focus on my game
a hundred percent.
914
00:43:12,254 --> 00:43:14,256
I promise not to distract you.
915
00:43:14,423 --> 00:43:16,591
But you do distract me.
916
00:43:18,051 --> 00:43:20,053
You distract me
just being here.
917
00:43:21,596 --> 00:43:22,931
Who are you?
918
00:43:24,433 --> 00:43:26,435
What are you doing with me?
919
00:43:27,185 --> 00:43:29,104
I'm Marilyn Kathryn Barnett.
920
00:43:29,771 --> 00:43:31,565
I'm good with my hands.
921
00:43:32,399 --> 00:43:34,443
I don't like being
told what to do.
922
00:43:35,110 --> 00:43:37,612
And I just met
the most interesting person.
923
00:43:38,447 --> 00:43:41,116
I'm not that interesting.
I promise.
924
00:43:42,075 --> 00:43:43,744
All I think about is tennis.
925
00:43:43,910 --> 00:43:46,580
We don't have to do anything
you don't want to do. Okay?
926
00:43:47,622 --> 00:43:48,623
Friends?
927
00:43:49,291 --> 00:43:51,126
-Okay.
-Really good friends?
928
00:43:51,293 --> 00:43:52,419
-Okay.
-(GIGGLES)
929
00:43:55,130 --> 00:43:57,966
I swear, I don't know what to
do with myself around you.
930
00:43:59,593 --> 00:44:01,136
Just drive.
931
00:44:02,304 --> 00:44:03,305
(INCREASES VOLUME)
932
00:44:03,430 --> 00:44:05,098
...brings me round
again to find
933
00:44:05,557 --> 00:44:08,602
I'm not the man
they think I am at home
934
00:44:08,643 --> 00:44:11,146
Oh, no, no, no
935
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,940
I'm a rocket man
936
00:44:15,150 --> 00:44:20,280
Rocket man burning out
his fuse up here alone
937
00:44:23,658 --> 00:44:28,497
And I think it's gonna be
a long, long time
938
00:44:30,665 --> 00:44:34,461
And I think it's gonna be
a long, long time
939
00:44:37,589 --> 00:44:41,510
And I think it's gonna be
a long, long time
940
00:44:44,513 --> 00:44:48,683
And I think it's gonna be
a long, long time
941
00:44:52,104 --> 00:44:53,647
And I think it's gonna be
a long, long time
942
00:44:53,772 --> 00:44:54,815
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
943
00:44:57,651 --> 00:44:58,652
(BABY COOING)
944
00:45:00,862 --> 00:45:01,863
(BABY CRYING)
945
00:45:02,322 --> 00:45:03,865
I know. Shh.
946
00:45:04,366 --> 00:45:05,367
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
947
00:45:11,998 --> 00:45:12,999
Bobby.
948
00:45:13,166 --> 00:45:15,544
Barry, how you doing?
Been a long time. How are you?
949
00:45:17,379 --> 00:45:18,713
What do you want?
950
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,382
Five minutes is all.
951
00:45:20,507 --> 00:45:21,550
And if you don't like
what I have to say,
952
00:45:21,675 --> 00:45:22,717
you'll never hear
from me again.
953
00:45:22,843 --> 00:45:24,511
-Is that a promise?
-Let him in.
954
00:45:24,678 --> 00:45:26,179
Hey, Margaret, how are you?
955
00:45:26,346 --> 00:45:27,389
This better be good.
956
00:45:27,472 --> 00:45:28,682
No one's getting
a lot of sleep around here.
957
00:45:28,849 --> 00:45:30,350
Oh, it's good! It's good.
958
00:45:30,684 --> 00:45:32,352
-Who's this?
-That's Daniel.
959
00:45:32,519 --> 00:45:34,020
Daniel! Do you mind?
960
00:45:34,187 --> 00:45:35,522
-May I?
-Yeah.
961
00:45:35,689 --> 00:45:39,192
Oh, Daniel, come here, you.
Oh, you're so big!
962
00:45:39,526 --> 00:45:41,695
Oh, Daniel, hello!
963
00:45:42,028 --> 00:45:44,698
Bobby's gotcha.
Bobby's gotcha.
964
00:45:45,282 --> 00:45:48,034
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, look at you.
965
00:45:48,368 --> 00:45:50,871
Oh, Margaret, he is lovely.
966
00:45:51,204 --> 00:45:53,540
Hi! Do any of the other girls
have kids?
967
00:45:54,207 --> 00:45:56,376
-Nope, just me.
-Just you. Wow!
968
00:45:56,543 --> 00:46:00,046
That has got to be tough.
Tough on your mom.
969
00:46:00,463 --> 00:46:02,132
Playing all day
and then taking care
970
00:46:02,215 --> 00:46:03,717
of you at night. Oh, boy!
971
00:46:04,009 --> 00:46:05,677
That's got to be--
And all the traveling?
972
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,012
You know what?
You need a nanny.
973
00:46:07,220 --> 00:46:09,055
-A nanny. (SCOFFS)
-You know how much they cost?
974
00:46:09,222 --> 00:46:10,974
That's exactly why I'm here.
975
00:46:11,057 --> 00:46:13,643
Because I think $35,000 would
buy you a lot of nanny.
976
00:46:13,810 --> 00:46:15,312
What is your game,
Bobby Riggs?
977
00:46:15,478 --> 00:46:16,563
A match. You versus me.
978
00:46:16,646 --> 00:46:18,857
Two out of three sets.
$35,000.
979
00:46:20,442 --> 00:46:21,484
(CHUCKLES)
980
00:46:21,568 --> 00:46:23,069
Well...why me?
981
00:46:23,236 --> 00:46:24,905
Why you?
Because you're the best.
982
00:46:25,071 --> 00:46:26,698
Billie Jean has been
on me to play her,
983
00:46:26,781 --> 00:46:27,949
but you know what she's like.
984
00:46:28,033 --> 00:46:29,034
Yeah.
985
00:46:29,117 --> 00:46:31,745
And besides, I always say
if you're gonna play...
986
00:46:31,995 --> 00:46:33,496
...play the number one.
987
00:46:34,164 --> 00:46:35,665
Billie Jean's number one.
988
00:46:35,999 --> 00:46:37,584
Not if you beat her tomorrow.
989
00:46:38,585 --> 00:46:41,254
Isn't that right?
Is your mom gonna beat her?
990
00:46:43,089 --> 00:46:46,343
TED: 40 down.
"Lumberjack's tool."
991
00:46:46,676 --> 00:46:48,261
Four letters.
992
00:46:48,595 --> 00:46:49,596
Anything?
993
00:46:49,763 --> 00:46:50,931
-Oh, my.
-What?
994
00:46:51,097 --> 00:46:52,432
-It's Larry.
-Hmm?
995
00:46:52,933 --> 00:46:54,267
Larry King.
996
00:46:55,602 --> 00:46:56,603
Oh.
997
00:46:57,854 --> 00:46:58,855
Oh.
998
00:46:59,064 --> 00:47:01,066
I think I'd better make
a phone call.
999
00:47:08,573 --> 00:47:09,574
(RINGING)
1000
00:47:12,452 --> 00:47:13,453
(GRUNTS)
1001
00:47:13,870 --> 00:47:14,871
Hello?
1002
00:47:15,205 --> 00:47:17,874
Ted here, darling.
A petite heads up.
1003
00:47:18,124 --> 00:47:19,960
Larry is in the building.
1004
00:47:20,293 --> 00:47:21,628
-Shit.
-Be careful.
1005
00:47:21,795 --> 00:47:23,129
Okay. Thanks.
1006
00:47:24,381 --> 00:47:26,132
-Hey. (LAUGHS)
-Oh.
1007
00:47:26,967 --> 00:47:28,301
-Going up?
-Thanks.
1008
00:47:28,468 --> 00:47:30,553
Yeah. 31.
1009
00:47:30,887 --> 00:47:31,888
Me, too.
1010
00:47:45,318 --> 00:47:46,653
Starting early.
1011
00:47:48,571 --> 00:47:49,948
Oh, well, you know
what they say--
1012
00:47:50,031 --> 00:47:51,616
it's never too early
for champagne.
1013
00:47:51,825 --> 00:47:53,660
(CHUCKLES) My kinda girl.
1014
00:47:54,327 --> 00:47:56,830
-You here for the tennis?
-I sure am.
1015
00:47:57,163 --> 00:47:58,164
Me, too.
1016
00:47:58,581 --> 00:48:00,917
I think Billie Jean's
gonna take it.
1017
00:48:02,085 --> 00:48:03,837
Oh, are you a fan?
1018
00:48:05,422 --> 00:48:07,090
You could say that.
1019
00:48:08,341 --> 00:48:09,551
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
1020
00:48:10,343 --> 00:48:11,511
After you.
1021
00:48:22,689 --> 00:48:25,025
LARRY: Well, see you around.
MARILYN: Maybe.
1022
00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:34,701
Hi! Oh.
1023
00:48:34,951 --> 00:48:35,952
Hi.
1024
00:48:36,036 --> 00:48:38,038
-Hi!
-Hi, honey.
1025
00:48:40,665 --> 00:48:42,000
Oh, this is Marilyn.
1026
00:48:43,084 --> 00:48:44,085
Oh.
1027
00:48:44,461 --> 00:48:45,962
-Larry.
-Oh, hi, hi.
1028
00:48:47,047 --> 00:48:49,382
-Marilyn is the, the--
-The hairdresser around here.
1029
00:48:49,591 --> 00:48:51,968
And...Larry is...the...
1030
00:48:52,385 --> 00:48:54,804
-The husband around here.
-The husband around here.
1031
00:48:55,138 --> 00:48:57,474
Peaches wants me
to give her a blow dry.
1032
00:48:57,557 --> 00:48:58,558
Great.
1033
00:48:59,976 --> 00:49:00,977
-LARRY: Marilyn!
-Uh-huh?
1034
00:49:01,144 --> 00:49:03,396
Was the ice
for Billie Jean's knees?
1035
00:49:05,982 --> 00:49:06,983
Yeah.
1036
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,235
-Yeah, I'll get that. Thanks.
-Bye.
1037
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,321
LARRY: Bye.
1038
00:49:13,031 --> 00:49:14,157
Hi.
1039
00:49:18,828 --> 00:49:20,830
Here. Let me.
1040
00:49:21,831 --> 00:49:22,832
Okay.
1041
00:49:59,744 --> 00:50:00,745
(CLEARS THROAT)
1042
00:50:02,956 --> 00:50:04,290
(CLEARS THROAT)
1043
00:50:05,041 --> 00:50:07,544
The roads were clear,
so I made good time.
1044
00:50:12,215 --> 00:50:13,758
I should've called ahead,
1045
00:50:13,842 --> 00:50:15,969
letting you know
that I was coming.
1046
00:50:27,564 --> 00:50:28,898
Leg up.
1047
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:41,244
Switch.
1048
00:50:42,328 --> 00:50:43,329
BILLIE JEAN: Here.
1049
00:50:51,379 --> 00:50:52,380
Uh...
1050
00:51:01,097 --> 00:51:02,849
I'm gonna get another room.
1051
00:51:08,438 --> 00:51:09,481
I've got phone calls to make,
1052
00:51:09,564 --> 00:51:11,774
and you need to rest
for the finals.
1053
00:51:19,866 --> 00:51:20,867
(DOOR CLOSES)
1054
00:52:11,209 --> 00:52:12,252
(CROWD CHEERS)
1055
00:52:12,335 --> 00:52:15,838
UMPIRE:
Point to Mrs. Court. Love-15.
1056
00:52:18,299 --> 00:52:19,259
(EXHALES)
1057
00:52:31,813 --> 00:52:33,231
UMPIRE: Love-30.
1058
00:52:33,565 --> 00:52:35,400
Jesus Christ, Billie.
1059
00:52:37,235 --> 00:52:39,404
Come on, dumby. Come on.
1060
00:52:52,709 --> 00:52:55,587
-UMPIRE: Love-40. Match point.
-(CROWD CHEERS)
1061
00:53:11,185 --> 00:53:14,522
UMPIRE: Game, set and match
to Mrs. Court.
1062
00:53:38,796 --> 00:53:40,131
BILLIE JEAN: That was bad.
1063
00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:44,135
You don't seem yourself.
1064
00:53:50,808 --> 00:53:52,810
I was thinking of
heading home.
1065
00:53:56,147 --> 00:53:57,231
Really?
1066
00:53:59,484 --> 00:54:01,819
There's lots to do
from there and...
1067
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:03,655
...I was thinking...
1068
00:54:03,988 --> 00:54:07,742
...I could give you some space
and let you clear your head.
1069
00:54:08,701 --> 00:54:09,702
BILLIE JEAN: Mmm-hmm.
1070
00:54:16,334 --> 00:54:18,419
-Talk to you soon.
-Yeah.
1071
00:54:25,176 --> 00:54:26,678
MARILYN: Man.
1072
00:54:28,262 --> 00:54:29,430
Damn.
1073
00:54:31,182 --> 00:54:32,183
Hi.
1074
00:54:32,850 --> 00:54:33,851
Hi.
1075
00:54:35,103 --> 00:54:36,771
Have you got a cigarette?
1076
00:54:37,105 --> 00:54:38,106
Nope.
1077
00:54:40,441 --> 00:54:42,193
Billie Jean know you smoke?
1078
00:54:42,276 --> 00:54:45,029
Uh... I guess not.
1079
00:54:45,279 --> 00:54:46,781
She's not a fan.
1080
00:54:47,615 --> 00:54:49,534
Well, I won't tell
if you won't.
1081
00:54:49,742 --> 00:54:50,743
(CHUCKLING)
1082
00:54:50,868 --> 00:54:54,288
Secrets, huh? There's a lot
of those going around.
1083
00:54:56,457 --> 00:54:58,793
Marilyn, you know
how all this gets paid for?
1084
00:54:59,544 --> 00:55:00,545
Yeah, the...
1085
00:55:00,712 --> 00:55:04,382
...the prize money, rackets,
hotels, flights...
1086
00:55:04,882 --> 00:55:06,718
...the food, everything?
1087
00:55:07,385 --> 00:55:08,553
Sponsorship.
1088
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:10,638
And with sponsorship, that
would go away in a heartbeat
1089
00:55:10,763 --> 00:55:13,391
if certain things
were to be made public.
1090
00:55:15,143 --> 00:55:18,146
I only have Billie Jean's
best interests at heart.
1091
00:55:19,063 --> 00:55:20,398
Look.
1092
00:55:20,982 --> 00:55:22,275
You seem like
a sweet girl and--
1093
00:55:22,358 --> 00:55:23,818
-Don't condescend to me.
-(SIGHS)
1094
00:55:24,736 --> 00:55:25,737
Please.
1095
00:55:26,237 --> 00:55:29,073
You know,
I'm not the competition.
1096
00:55:29,657 --> 00:55:32,243
I'm just her husband,
and you're...
1097
00:55:32,326 --> 00:55:33,327
(EXHALES)
1098
00:55:33,578 --> 00:55:35,413
...you're just a phase.
1099
00:55:36,581 --> 00:55:38,583
We're both just sideshows.
1100
00:55:38,750 --> 00:55:40,752
Tennis is her true love.
1101
00:55:40,918 --> 00:55:44,297
And if you get between her
and the game, you'll be gone.
1102
00:55:58,269 --> 00:55:59,270
(DOOR OPENS)
1103
00:56:07,528 --> 00:56:09,280
Met Bobby Riggs last night.
1104
00:56:09,697 --> 00:56:10,782
Funny man.
1105
00:56:11,824 --> 00:56:12,825
BILLIE JEAN:
Tell me you didn't.
1106
00:56:12,992 --> 00:56:14,452
Didn't what?
1107
00:56:16,370 --> 00:56:18,706
He just wants to play
an exhibition match is all.
1108
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:21,042
Now that I'm officially
number one.
1109
00:56:21,375 --> 00:56:24,796
It's not a tennis match,
Margaret. You do know that.
1110
00:56:25,213 --> 00:56:26,547
What do you mean?
1111
00:56:26,798 --> 00:56:29,300
He tried that exhibition
match line on me.
1112
00:56:29,550 --> 00:56:32,220
Oh. And I suppose
you turned him down?
1113
00:56:32,637 --> 00:56:33,679
Are you kidding me?
1114
00:56:33,763 --> 00:56:35,723
You think I want to join
the Bobby Riggs circus?
1115
00:56:36,224 --> 00:56:39,227
He wants to make himself look
great and women look stupid.
1116
00:56:39,727 --> 00:56:41,896
It's not a match. It's a show.
1117
00:56:42,730 --> 00:56:45,983
I can understand why you might
not want to play him, but...
1118
00:56:46,317 --> 00:56:47,819
...I've got nothing to hide.
1119
00:56:57,870 --> 00:56:58,871
(DOOR CLOSES)
1120
00:57:01,165 --> 00:57:03,167
TED: Mind those seams
when taking that off.
1121
00:57:03,334 --> 00:57:05,002
She's gonna play Bobby Riggs.
1122
00:57:05,169 --> 00:57:09,173
The Arm versus The Mouth.
I know where my money's going.
1123
00:57:09,340 --> 00:57:12,635
What if she loses, Ted?
What if she blows it?
1124
00:57:13,010 --> 00:57:14,679
He's never gonna let it go.
1125
00:57:14,929 --> 00:57:17,265
He's gonna make women's tennis
look like a laughingstock.
1126
00:57:17,431 --> 00:57:19,934
Calm yourself,
Madame Superstar.
1127
00:57:20,268 --> 00:57:21,853
Margaret is playing
better than ever,
1128
00:57:21,936 --> 00:57:23,604
and I don't need
to remind you.
1129
00:57:24,689 --> 00:57:26,858
And strictly entre nous...
1130
00:57:27,525 --> 00:57:29,902
...we've had to make some
adjustments in the bicep area.
1131
00:57:29,986 --> 00:57:31,279
Haven't we, Henry?
1132
00:57:31,612 --> 00:57:33,364
About an inch and a half.
1133
00:57:33,531 --> 00:57:34,532
(TED CHUCKLES)
1134
00:57:35,199 --> 00:57:36,409
I'm just glad
you're not playing him.
1135
00:57:36,492 --> 00:57:38,286
Not a chance.
1136
00:57:41,247 --> 00:57:42,582
Best be careful.
1137
00:57:43,124 --> 00:57:44,208
What do you mean?
1138
00:57:45,877 --> 00:57:48,963
The world isn't always
a forgiving place, my dear.
1139
00:57:54,802 --> 00:57:56,971
How are you so free
with yourself?
1140
00:57:58,431 --> 00:58:00,516
Seems like you just do
whatever you want.
1141
00:58:00,683 --> 00:58:02,685
I don't do whatever I want.
1142
00:58:03,561 --> 00:58:06,147
I pay taxes,
visit the dentist.
1143
00:58:06,314 --> 00:58:07,899
You know what I mean.
1144
00:58:09,567 --> 00:58:11,319
I'm one of eight kids.
1145
00:58:11,652 --> 00:58:12,737
So...
1146
00:58:13,487 --> 00:58:15,323
...no one noticed what I did.
1147
00:58:15,990 --> 00:58:17,033
Which is probably
for the best,
1148
00:58:17,116 --> 00:58:19,994
because I would've shocked
the hell out of all of 'em.
1149
00:58:20,453 --> 00:58:21,787
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
1150
00:58:24,248 --> 00:58:25,499
I don't know.
1151
00:58:26,959 --> 00:58:29,712
I live...a private life...
1152
00:58:30,671 --> 00:58:31,672
...and...
1153
00:58:31,839 --> 00:58:35,259
...I guess I never think that
people will care what I do.
1154
00:58:42,183 --> 00:58:45,019
God, I think everyone
cares what I do.
1155
00:58:47,521 --> 00:58:49,523
I'm gonna let them all down.
1156
00:58:51,525 --> 00:58:54,695
When I was a kid,
I played at this tennis club.
1157
00:58:56,864 --> 00:58:58,115
I was...
1158
00:58:58,699 --> 00:59:00,034
...twelve.
1159
00:59:02,203 --> 00:59:05,456
It was team photo time,
which is a very big deal.
1160
00:59:05,539 --> 00:59:06,540
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
1161
00:59:07,541 --> 00:59:09,543
And my mom made me these...
1162
00:59:09,877 --> 00:59:11,003
...white tennis shorts,
1163
00:59:11,087 --> 00:59:13,214
because we couldn't afford
a tennis dress.
1164
00:59:14,131 --> 00:59:15,466
And...
1165
00:59:16,467 --> 00:59:17,843
...the man that ran it,
1166
00:59:17,969 --> 00:59:19,595
we were all lined up
to take the photo
1167
00:59:19,679 --> 00:59:21,305
and he pointed at me
and he said...
1168
00:59:21,639 --> 00:59:24,058
..."That little girl cannot
be in the photo...
1169
00:59:24,392 --> 00:59:26,560
..."because she's not wearing
a tennis dress."
1170
00:59:27,645 --> 00:59:30,064
-That must've crushed you.
-No.
1171
00:59:31,649 --> 00:59:32,984
I just thought...
1172
00:59:33,651 --> 00:59:35,152
...that does it.
1173
00:59:37,321 --> 00:59:39,156
I'm gonna be the best.
1174
00:59:40,157 --> 00:59:43,661
That way I can
really...change things.
1175
00:59:45,579 --> 00:59:47,498
That way I have a voice.
1176
00:59:50,334 --> 00:59:52,003
You have a voice.
1177
01:00:10,438 --> 01:00:12,064
-Dad?
-Larry!
1178
01:00:12,398 --> 01:00:14,734
Sorry I can't stay long.
I'm training.
1179
01:00:15,234 --> 01:00:16,402
What the hell are you wearing?
1180
01:00:16,444 --> 01:00:18,070
Ah. It's a sauna suit.
1181
01:00:18,404 --> 01:00:19,947
It's killing me,
but every time I breathe,
1182
01:00:19,989 --> 01:00:21,115
I lose a pound.
1183
01:00:21,282 --> 01:00:23,117
You hear the news?
Bobby's back!
1184
01:00:23,284 --> 01:00:24,410
Yeah, yeah, I heard.
1185
01:00:24,577 --> 01:00:25,911
You heard, huh?
Isn't it great?
1186
01:00:25,953 --> 01:00:27,246
Is it really happening?
1187
01:00:27,413 --> 01:00:29,665
Oh, it's happening.
It is happening! Say...
1188
01:00:30,750 --> 01:00:32,585
-You want to help?
-What with?
1189
01:00:32,752 --> 01:00:35,421
What with?
With training, with support.
1190
01:00:35,629 --> 01:00:37,465
Hit some balls
for your old man.
1191
01:00:37,757 --> 01:00:39,258
Lornie's coming in.
1192
01:00:39,592 --> 01:00:41,093
I don't know. Why me?
1193
01:00:41,260 --> 01:00:44,096
Why you?
You're my son, that's why.
1194
01:00:44,638 --> 01:00:46,682
Do this thing together.
Come on!
1195
01:00:46,932 --> 01:00:48,934
The Riggs boys
against the world!
1196
01:00:49,268 --> 01:00:50,978
-You think you can beat her?
-Oh.
1197
01:00:51,437 --> 01:00:53,606
This Margaret thing
is just the beginning.
1198
01:00:53,981 --> 01:00:55,608
It's gonna be huge.
1199
01:01:03,115 --> 01:01:04,533
HANK RUPP:
Three-time Wimbledon Champion,
1200
01:01:04,658 --> 01:01:06,952
four times Women's
Single Champion
1201
01:01:06,994 --> 01:01:08,120
in the United States...
1202
01:01:08,829 --> 01:01:10,498
...winner of the Grand Slam
of tennis,
1203
01:01:10,664 --> 01:01:11,999
and current leading
money winner
1204
01:01:12,124 --> 01:01:13,459
of the Women's Pro Tour.
1205
01:01:13,793 --> 01:01:16,003
From Australia,
meet Margaret Court.
1206
01:01:17,004 --> 01:01:18,172
Her opponent...
1207
01:01:18,506 --> 01:01:20,341
...twice the United States
Singles Champion,
1208
01:01:20,424 --> 01:01:21,675
also a winner at Wimbledon.
1209
01:01:22,343 --> 01:01:24,637
A man who in 1967
was enshrined
1210
01:01:24,678 --> 01:01:26,347
into the Tennis Hall of Fame.
1211
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,517
Colorful and controversial
Bobby Riggs.
1212
01:01:29,850 --> 01:01:32,853
Who's your money on, Jack?
Mankind or womankind?
1213
01:01:33,104 --> 01:01:34,772
Bobby Riggs, without a doubt.
1214
01:01:34,939 --> 01:01:37,024
Margaret Court
is a great tennis player,
1215
01:01:37,149 --> 01:01:38,943
there's no mistake
about that, but the...
1216
01:01:39,318 --> 01:01:41,987
...thing about women
is that they find it hard
1217
01:01:42,029 --> 01:01:43,823
to consistently
handle the pressure.
1218
01:01:44,156 --> 01:01:46,492
Some would say
they're not built for it.
1219
01:01:56,377 --> 01:01:57,503
Excuse me!
1220
01:01:57,670 --> 01:01:59,004
ROSIE: It's started already!
1221
01:01:59,171 --> 01:02:00,464
GLADYS:
Virginia Slims coming through!
1222
01:02:00,548 --> 01:02:02,007
ROSIE: Where are the TVs?
1223
01:02:02,174 --> 01:02:04,343
TED: Quickly! Come on, Henry.
1224
01:02:05,010 --> 01:02:06,512
We don't want to miss this.
1225
01:02:06,679 --> 01:02:08,055
Everybody, shut up!
1226
01:02:08,222 --> 01:02:09,890
That's the last
of our laundry quarters.
1227
01:02:11,559 --> 01:02:13,394
JULIE: It's on what channel?
1228
01:02:13,561 --> 01:02:14,728
Can we have some quiet here?
1229
01:02:14,812 --> 01:02:16,021
-Please?
-Where, on four?
1230
01:02:16,188 --> 01:02:17,189
Yeah, it's four.
1231
01:02:17,398 --> 01:02:18,399
TED: Oh! There we are.
1232
01:02:18,524 --> 01:02:20,025
JULIE: Oh, my God.
This is big.
1233
01:02:20,234 --> 01:02:22,027
BILLIE JEAN: Of course
it's big. It's Bobby.
1234
01:02:22,194 --> 01:02:23,404
The one thing that man
can do is hustle.
1235
01:02:23,487 --> 01:02:24,697
TED: I'll say.
1236
01:02:24,864 --> 01:02:26,407
HANK RUPP: Bobby Riggs
is two games away
1237
01:02:26,532 --> 01:02:28,159
from winning this first set.
1238
01:02:28,325 --> 01:02:29,493
KRAMER: Rather easily,
I might add.
1239
01:02:29,577 --> 01:02:30,578
Oh, my God.
1240
01:02:30,828 --> 01:02:32,830
KRAMER: Margaret may not
realize what she's up against.
1241
01:02:32,997 --> 01:02:35,332
I think we should have been
there to support her.
1242
01:02:35,583 --> 01:02:36,917
You have a tournament to play.
1243
01:02:37,001 --> 01:02:38,752
I own you,
Peaches--don't forget that.
1244
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:43,215
TED: What a dreadful choice
of blue!
1245
01:02:43,883 --> 01:02:44,884
GLADYS: Oh, God.
1246
01:02:45,092 --> 01:02:46,760
WOMAN: If she doesn't
start attacking the ball,
1247
01:02:46,886 --> 01:02:48,095
she's gonna
fall into his trap.
1248
01:02:48,262 --> 01:02:49,680
She looks spooked.
1249
01:02:49,847 --> 01:02:51,182
Do we like the dress?
1250
01:02:52,057 --> 01:02:54,059
JULIE: It's one of Ted's.
Are we allowed not to?
1251
01:02:54,226 --> 01:02:56,770
-Right behind you, darling.
-We love the dress!
1252
01:02:56,937 --> 01:02:58,022
Thank you.
1253
01:02:58,105 --> 01:02:59,356
FEMALE COMMENTATOR:
I'm just hoping that Margaret
1254
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:00,691
will really start
hitting the ball
1255
01:03:00,858 --> 01:03:02,735
and follow her serve
to the net.
1256
01:03:02,902 --> 01:03:05,070
I don't see how
she can win staying back.
1257
01:03:05,237 --> 01:03:07,406
HANK RUPP: It looks like
Bobby's just toying with her.
1258
01:03:07,573 --> 01:03:08,949
That's gonna have
a demoralizing
1259
01:03:09,074 --> 01:03:10,201
effect on Margaret
1260
01:03:10,284 --> 01:03:11,577
if she thinks
he's just horsing around.
1261
01:03:11,744 --> 01:03:13,245
TED: Oh, dear.
KRAMER: Let's face it.
1262
01:03:13,412 --> 01:03:15,247
She just can't handle
Bobby's game.
1263
01:03:15,372 --> 01:03:16,373
(ALL GROANING)
1264
01:03:18,083 --> 01:03:19,418
ROSIE: Come on!
1265
01:03:22,588 --> 01:03:23,923
TED: Nice one.
1266
01:03:24,256 --> 01:03:25,299
Bravo!
1267
01:03:27,468 --> 01:03:28,636
JULIE: The Arm'll be fine.
1268
01:03:28,802 --> 01:03:30,304
She could squeeze
the life out of that
1269
01:03:30,387 --> 01:03:32,473
little twerp with one
tweak of her bicep.
1270
01:03:35,809 --> 01:03:36,810
UMPIRE: 40-love.
1271
01:03:36,977 --> 01:03:39,438
TED: No, Margaret.
GLADYS: Wake up, Margaret!
1272
01:03:39,605 --> 01:03:41,232
ROSIE: I'm not liking this.
1273
01:03:41,315 --> 01:03:42,816
Gladys, I think I'm gonna
need a cigarette.
1274
01:03:43,067 --> 01:03:45,069
(GASPS) Finally, one
of my girls smokes!
1275
01:03:46,278 --> 01:03:47,780
UMPIRE: Game to Mr. Riggs.
1276
01:03:47,821 --> 01:03:49,281
Mr. Riggs leads
one set to nothing.
1277
01:03:49,448 --> 01:03:50,491
GLADYS:
There's not a single thing
1278
01:03:50,616 --> 01:03:51,992
I don't hate about
Bobby Riggs,
1279
01:03:52,076 --> 01:03:53,786
not a single thing.
1280
01:03:54,119 --> 01:03:56,330
HANK RUPP: Bobby Riggs
here in the second set.
1281
01:03:56,622 --> 01:03:57,790
FEMALE COMMENTATOR:
Riggs does it again.
1282
01:03:57,831 --> 01:03:59,458
KRAMER:
Bobby's unstoppable today.
1283
01:03:59,625 --> 01:04:00,960
HANK RUPP: Bobby Riggs.
1284
01:04:01,293 --> 01:04:02,628
Again, Bobby Riggs.
1285
01:04:03,295 --> 01:04:04,838
Margaret seems to
be off her game.
1286
01:04:04,922 --> 01:04:06,298
TED: I'll say!
1287
01:04:06,632 --> 01:04:08,968
HANK: 40-love. Beautiful.
ROSIE: This is awful.
1288
01:04:09,134 --> 01:04:11,553
UMPIRE: Game to Mr. Riggs.
ROSIE: Really terrible.
1289
01:04:11,887 --> 01:04:13,305
HANK RUPP: Again, Bobby Riggs.
1290
01:04:13,389 --> 01:04:14,723
TED: Let's get
another cocktail, Henry.
1291
01:04:14,890 --> 01:04:16,725
Well, as I said...
1292
01:04:16,892 --> 01:04:18,477
...it's not that women
can't play tennis,
1293
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,397
it's just that they can't
deal with the pressure.
1294
01:04:22,064 --> 01:04:24,692
Perhaps this will finally put
a stop to women players
1295
01:04:24,858 --> 01:04:27,069
demanding the same prize
money as men.
1296
01:04:27,736 --> 01:04:29,780
As we've seen today,
they're simply...
1297
01:04:29,863 --> 01:04:31,407
not in the same league.
1298
01:04:31,740 --> 01:04:33,450
Let's face it, in business,
1299
01:04:33,534 --> 01:04:35,244
politics, sports,
you name it...
1300
01:04:35,411 --> 01:04:36,829
...whatever they like
to think,
1301
01:04:36,912 --> 01:04:38,580
at the very top
it's a man's game.
1302
01:04:38,747 --> 01:04:40,249
PEACHES: I can't believe this.
1303
01:04:42,001 --> 01:04:43,669
I know what'll cheer her up.
1304
01:04:45,004 --> 01:04:46,672
-I'll be right back.
-Okay, darling.
1305
01:04:46,839 --> 01:04:48,674
KRAMER:
We're at match point here.
1306
01:04:59,768 --> 01:05:00,769
(CROWD CHEERS)
1307
01:05:02,354 --> 01:05:06,358
HANK RUPP: There it is.
Bobby Riggs wins 6-2, 6-1.
1308
01:05:06,692 --> 01:05:07,693
Unbelievable.
1309
01:05:08,027 --> 01:05:09,820
A rather easy triumph against
1310
01:05:09,903 --> 01:05:11,947
motherhood
and women's liberation.
1311
01:05:14,783 --> 01:05:16,285
That was a massacre.
1312
01:05:16,452 --> 01:05:17,494
INTERVIEWER:
Congratulations, Bobby.
1313
01:05:17,578 --> 01:05:18,704
BOBBY:
Well, thank you very much.
1314
01:05:18,787 --> 01:05:20,039
This is my son, Larry.
1315
01:05:20,122 --> 01:05:22,041
Lousy tennis player,
great guy.
1316
01:05:22,207 --> 01:05:24,001
So, now officially Bobby Riggs
1317
01:05:24,084 --> 01:05:26,045
is the number one
ladies player in the world...
1318
01:05:26,128 --> 01:05:27,212
...and any ladies out there
1319
01:05:27,296 --> 01:05:28,339
want to challenge
for the crown,
1320
01:05:28,422 --> 01:05:29,882
you know where to find me.
1321
01:05:30,049 --> 01:05:31,592
And since I have just
proven here today,
1322
01:05:31,675 --> 01:05:33,052
beyond a shadow of a doubt...
1323
01:05:33,218 --> 01:05:34,678
...that men are
the superior animal,
1324
01:05:34,762 --> 01:05:36,221
tell you want I'm gonna do:
1325
01:05:36,388 --> 01:05:37,890
I am gonna triple the bet!
1326
01:05:38,057 --> 01:05:40,893
$100,000 to any woman
who can beat Bobby Riggs.
1327
01:05:41,060 --> 01:05:43,062
The question I ask myself is,
is she out there,
1328
01:05:43,145 --> 01:05:45,898
and does she have the nerve?
1329
01:05:52,821 --> 01:05:54,323
PEACHES: What got into her?
1330
01:05:54,490 --> 01:05:55,866
Fate, sweetie.
1331
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:58,702
Coming at her
like a runaway train.
1332
01:06:02,748 --> 01:06:04,750
Oh...darling.
1333
01:06:08,754 --> 01:06:10,089
REPORTER:
And in today's much publicized
1334
01:06:10,172 --> 01:06:11,673
tennis face-off between...
1335
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:13,133
...Senior Pro Bobby Riggs
1336
01:06:13,217 --> 01:06:15,094
and Woman's No. 1
Margaret Court...
1337
01:06:15,260 --> 01:06:17,054
...the self-styled
"male chauvinist pig"
1338
01:06:17,137 --> 01:06:19,765
beat Mrs. Court
in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1...
1339
01:06:20,099 --> 01:06:21,892
...in what the press
has dubbed
1340
01:06:21,975 --> 01:06:23,602
"The Mother's Day Massac--"
1341
01:06:23,769 --> 01:06:26,939
Oh, for goodness sakes.
It was just a tennis match.
1342
01:06:28,482 --> 01:06:31,276
The Women's No. 1 can't beat
a 55-year-old.
1343
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:32,653
Are you kidding me?
1344
01:06:33,529 --> 01:06:34,780
He's backed me
into a corner now.
1345
01:06:34,863 --> 01:06:36,115
Then don't play him.
1346
01:06:36,281 --> 01:06:38,325
Who else is gonna
beat him, Marilyn?
1347
01:06:38,409 --> 01:06:39,868
I don't have a choice.
1348
01:06:40,035 --> 01:06:42,037
No, you always have a choice.
1349
01:06:42,371 --> 01:06:43,872
You don't get it.
1350
01:06:45,624 --> 01:06:47,126
You don't get it. (SNORTS)
1351
01:06:51,380 --> 01:06:53,382
I don't know how to help you.
1352
01:06:57,469 --> 01:06:59,138
Do you even want me here?
1353
01:07:03,475 --> 01:07:06,478
I don't know. I'm sorry.
I need to think.
1354
01:07:21,660 --> 01:07:25,372
(TENNIS BALLS BOUNCING
THEN HITTING THE FENCE)
1355
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:17,841
(PHONE RINGING)
1356
01:08:21,136 --> 01:08:22,137
Hello?
1357
01:08:22,471 --> 01:08:23,472
BILLIE JEAN: Larry.
1358
01:08:24,389 --> 01:08:27,226
Oh. I was wondering
when you were gonna call.
1359
01:08:27,768 --> 01:08:28,769
(GROANS)
1360
01:08:30,562 --> 01:08:32,231
It was a travesty.
1361
01:08:33,232 --> 01:08:34,233
So?
1362
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:36,902
Call the bozo.
1363
01:08:37,653 --> 01:08:39,154
Tell him it's on.
1364
01:08:40,614 --> 01:08:41,823
But nothing gets agreed on
1365
01:08:41,907 --> 01:08:43,575
without my approval,
all right?
1366
01:08:43,742 --> 01:08:47,663
Venue, date,
TV rights, everything.
1367
01:08:48,163 --> 01:08:49,998
What balls we use.
1368
01:08:50,582 --> 01:08:53,585
I know Bobby. He'll be making
deals on his deals by now.
1369
01:08:53,752 --> 01:08:55,587
I'll call him first thing
in the morning.
1370
01:08:55,754 --> 01:08:58,590
No, now.
He calls me at midnight.
1371
01:08:58,924 --> 01:09:00,676
If we're gonna go, let's go.
1372
01:09:03,345 --> 01:09:04,513
Okay.
1373
01:09:10,102 --> 01:09:11,436
You know something?
1374
01:09:12,020 --> 01:09:13,522
This can be great.
1375
01:09:14,690 --> 01:09:16,358
Really, really great.
1376
01:09:16,525 --> 01:09:19,027
And not just
for women's tennis, you know?
1377
01:09:21,029 --> 01:09:22,698
As long as I win.
1378
01:09:25,367 --> 01:09:27,869
If there's one thing
that I know about you...
1379
01:09:28,370 --> 01:09:32,040
...it's that this is one match
you are gonna win.
1380
01:09:35,544 --> 01:09:37,296
You're a good man, Larry.
1381
01:09:38,213 --> 01:09:39,798
You're a good woman.
1382
01:09:41,883 --> 01:09:43,552
I wish that were true.
1383
01:09:45,387 --> 01:09:48,890
Let's focus on the match.
Everything else can wait.
1384
01:09:52,894 --> 01:09:53,895
Good night.
1385
01:10:11,079 --> 01:10:12,164
Marilyn?
1386
01:10:30,849 --> 01:10:33,018
Honey! I am back on top,
1387
01:10:33,101 --> 01:10:35,604
I've never felt better,
I beat Margaret Court...
1388
01:10:35,771 --> 01:10:37,898
...and now I am playing
Billie Jean King
1389
01:10:37,981 --> 01:10:40,108
for $100,000. What about that?
1390
01:10:40,525 --> 01:10:41,526
And...
1391
01:10:41,860 --> 01:10:44,029
...it's going to be on ABC,
primetime.
1392
01:10:44,696 --> 01:10:46,615
Well, you have some
nerve using all that
1393
01:10:46,698 --> 01:10:48,867
"male chauvinist pig"
nonsense.
1394
01:10:49,201 --> 01:10:50,369
Who do you think's
been bankrolling
1395
01:10:50,452 --> 01:10:53,205
you all these years?
Me. A woman.
1396
01:10:53,372 --> 01:10:55,082
You know something?
You are absolutely right,
1397
01:10:55,165 --> 01:10:56,792
and I am gonna pay you back.
1398
01:10:56,958 --> 01:10:58,460
-Oh, yeah?
-Yeah.
1399
01:10:58,794 --> 01:11:00,295
I don't want it back.
1400
01:11:02,631 --> 01:11:04,132
You want me back?
1401
01:11:04,216 --> 01:11:05,217
(PRISCILLA CHUCKLES)
1402
01:11:11,390 --> 01:11:12,474
So...
1403
01:11:13,141 --> 01:11:15,560
...I'm gonna be on the cover
of Time magazine.
1404
01:11:15,894 --> 01:11:16,937
I won the triple at Wimbledon
1405
01:11:17,020 --> 01:11:18,605
and never got
the cover of Time.
1406
01:11:20,107 --> 01:11:22,609
So after Billie Jean,
there's an offer on the table
1407
01:11:22,734 --> 01:11:24,778
for a million dollars
to play Chrissie Evert.
1408
01:11:24,945 --> 01:11:26,446
A million dollars, huh!
1409
01:11:27,197 --> 01:11:28,532
Imagine that?
1410
01:11:29,616 --> 01:11:31,118
Million dollars.
1411
01:11:32,619 --> 01:11:33,620
Phew.
1412
01:11:36,248 --> 01:11:37,249
(SIGHS)
1413
01:11:38,208 --> 01:11:39,710
I'll tell you something.
1414
01:11:45,132 --> 01:11:48,802
It's a pretty scary...trip
I'm taking right here...
1415
01:11:49,136 --> 01:11:50,470
...and, uh...
1416
01:11:51,722 --> 01:11:53,557
...well, I was, um...
1417
01:11:56,059 --> 01:11:57,561
Well, I need you, honey.
1418
01:12:02,649 --> 01:12:04,818
I feel like we've been
through this before.
1419
01:12:05,152 --> 01:12:08,155
No, I'm a changed man.
Ask the shrink.
1420
01:12:09,156 --> 01:12:11,324
-I did.
-What did he say?
1421
01:12:11,658 --> 01:12:14,494
Nothing.
He just gave me 30 bucks.
1422
01:12:15,912 --> 01:12:16,913
The money that he owed you
1423
01:12:16,997 --> 01:12:18,749
from your last game
of blackjack.
1424
01:12:18,832 --> 01:12:19,833
(GROANS)
1425
01:12:21,168 --> 01:12:22,919
-He was a terrible player.
-(CHUCKLES)
1426
01:12:23,336 --> 01:12:24,921
-Christ.
-(BOTH LAUGHING)
1427
01:12:28,258 --> 01:12:30,093
Bobby, I love you.
1428
01:12:31,595 --> 01:12:33,263
Well, I love you, too.
1429
01:12:34,014 --> 01:12:36,683
I love how you make me laugh.
1430
01:12:37,184 --> 01:12:40,103
I love your crazy ideas
and all your schemes.
1431
01:12:40,437 --> 01:12:43,857
And the way you walk into
a room and you fill it up.
1432
01:12:45,192 --> 01:12:46,693
I love the way
you make me feel.
1433
01:12:46,777 --> 01:12:48,862
I miss that a lot.
1434
01:12:50,363 --> 01:12:51,364
But...
1435
01:12:51,948 --> 01:12:54,034
...I need a husband.
1436
01:12:54,534 --> 01:12:56,870
I need someone who is steady.
1437
01:12:57,370 --> 01:12:59,623
Someone that I can rely on.
1438
01:12:59,873 --> 01:13:01,666
And that is not you.
1439
01:13:02,459 --> 01:13:04,044
And that's okay.
1440
01:13:05,212 --> 01:13:06,630
It is more than okay.
1441
01:13:06,713 --> 01:13:08,632
It is wonderful,
because that...
1442
01:13:08,965 --> 01:13:10,675
...is who you are.
1443
01:13:12,469 --> 01:13:14,971
I just can't be
with that person anymore.
1444
01:13:15,889 --> 01:13:17,307
I just can't.
1445
01:13:19,226 --> 01:13:21,061
I'm so sorry.
1446
01:13:21,478 --> 01:13:22,479
No.
1447
01:13:24,564 --> 01:13:26,066
I'm sorry.
1448
01:13:28,235 --> 01:13:29,236
(EXHALES)
1449
01:13:29,569 --> 01:13:30,737
Okay.
1450
01:13:32,155 --> 01:13:33,156
All right.
1451
01:13:33,406 --> 01:13:34,407
Okay.
1452
01:13:34,574 --> 01:13:35,742
Good-bye.
1453
01:13:45,919 --> 01:13:46,920
(DOOR CLOSES)
1454
01:14:00,767 --> 01:14:01,768
(LINE RINGING)
1455
01:14:03,061 --> 01:14:04,062
(CLEARS THROAT)
1456
01:14:05,480 --> 01:14:08,608
Hey, Jimmy! Bobby here.
How are you, my friend?
1457
01:14:08,942 --> 01:14:10,110
Never better, never better.
1458
01:14:10,235 --> 01:14:12,153
Listen, what are the odds
right now?
1459
01:14:13,822 --> 01:14:15,949
Okay, put 15 grand
on me to win.
1460
01:14:16,658 --> 01:14:18,660
That's right, buddy,
15 big ones.
1461
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:22,330
Okay. Great. Thank you, sir.
1462
01:14:26,668 --> 01:14:28,253
MAN: (ON TV)
In other news, another battle
1463
01:14:28,295 --> 01:14:30,338
in the never-ending
war of the sexes...
1464
01:14:30,505 --> 01:14:31,923
...this one on
the tennis court
1465
01:14:31,965 --> 01:14:33,967
for a $100,000 purse.
1466
01:14:34,134 --> 01:14:35,468
It was announced today.
1467
01:14:35,635 --> 01:14:36,803
Women's tennis champion
1468
01:14:36,845 --> 01:14:38,972
Miss Billie Jean King,
who is 29...
1469
01:14:39,139 --> 01:14:42,017
...accepted the challenge
of 55-year-old Bobby Riggs...
1470
01:14:42,475 --> 01:14:43,810
...the match to be
held at a time
1471
01:14:43,935 --> 01:14:45,478
and place still to be decided.
1472
01:14:45,645 --> 01:14:47,147
Miss King said
she will not play
1473
01:14:47,188 --> 01:14:48,690
for the money but,
in her words...
1474
01:14:48,857 --> 01:14:50,525
..."to put women's tennis
1475
01:14:50,650 --> 01:14:53,028
"and women's lib back
where it belongs."
1476
01:14:53,194 --> 01:14:55,822
Riggs said he issued
the challenge because...
1477
01:14:55,989 --> 01:14:57,490
..."I want to prove
that women are lousy
1478
01:14:57,657 --> 01:14:59,659
"and they don't belong
on the same court as a man."
1479
01:15:00,493 --> 01:15:01,703
Wow.
1480
01:15:04,497 --> 01:15:06,041
BOBBY: Put her there.
BILLIE JEAN: All right, great.
1481
01:15:06,166 --> 01:15:07,167
(CHUCKLES)
1482
01:15:09,544 --> 01:15:12,130
Now, don't get me wrong,
I love women--
1483
01:15:12,172 --> 01:15:13,882
in the bedroom
and in the kitchen.
1484
01:15:14,049 --> 01:15:15,800
But these days,
they want to be everywhere!
1485
01:15:15,842 --> 01:15:17,636
They want to be
doing everything!
1486
01:15:17,844 --> 01:15:19,346
Where is it gonna end?
1487
01:15:19,512 --> 01:15:22,015
Pretty soon us fellas won't be
able to go to a ballgame,
1488
01:15:22,057 --> 01:15:23,475
we won't be able
to go fishing.
1489
01:15:23,642 --> 01:15:26,019
We won't be able to stop
and have a drink after work.
1490
01:15:26,186 --> 01:15:28,021
And that's what this whole
women's lib thing is about.
1491
01:15:28,146 --> 01:15:29,481
And it's got to stop.
1492
01:15:29,648 --> 01:15:31,316
And Bobby Riggs
is the man to stop it.
1493
01:15:31,483 --> 01:15:34,027
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is Custer's Last Stand.
1494
01:15:34,194 --> 01:15:36,988
This is the Lobber
versus the Libber!
1495
01:15:37,197 --> 01:15:38,198
(LAUGHTER)
1496
01:15:39,574 --> 01:15:41,409
Take that. Right?
1497
01:15:42,327 --> 01:15:43,995
Keep talking, Bobby.
1498
01:15:44,162 --> 01:15:45,372
The more nonsense you spout,
1499
01:15:45,413 --> 01:15:46,831
the worse it will be
when you lose.
1500
01:15:47,749 --> 01:15:49,209
Well, I'm the ladies
number one,
1501
01:15:49,250 --> 01:15:51,252
I'm the champ.
Why would I lose?
1502
01:15:51,419 --> 01:15:53,213
Because dinosaurs
can't play tennis.
1503
01:15:53,380 --> 01:15:54,381
(ALL EXCLAIM)
1504
01:15:55,215 --> 01:15:57,550
I'm gonna put the "show"
back in "chauvinism."
1505
01:15:59,886 --> 01:16:00,929
BOBBY: Gentlemen.
1506
01:16:02,597 --> 01:16:04,724
What a beautiful day
to play tennis, huh?
1507
01:16:05,892 --> 01:16:08,061
All right, right here.
Right down the pike.
1508
01:16:08,228 --> 01:16:09,729
All right, I'm coming in.
1509
01:16:10,605 --> 01:16:13,441
I'm coming in! Give me a lob!
1510
01:16:15,068 --> 01:16:16,569
Right? That's how you do it.
1511
01:16:17,404 --> 01:16:19,406
You know what I'm doing?
I'm cooking.
1512
01:16:19,572 --> 01:16:21,574
I'm cooking! Am I cooking?
1513
01:16:22,242 --> 01:16:23,410
Oh...
1514
01:16:25,078 --> 01:16:27,080
Oh, there we go!
1515
01:16:27,455 --> 01:16:28,456
Ah!
1516
01:16:28,915 --> 01:16:30,125
All right, I got it.
1517
01:16:30,250 --> 01:16:31,418
(SONG PLAYING)
1518
01:16:31,501 --> 01:16:33,086
Any time of day
1519
01:16:34,963 --> 01:16:36,506
But if it's not love
1520
01:16:38,425 --> 01:16:40,260
That you need
1521
01:16:41,428 --> 01:16:43,221
Then I'll try my best...
1522
01:16:43,263 --> 01:16:44,264
R I G G S
1523
01:16:44,347 --> 01:16:47,517
They walked right into it.
I'm taking 'em all home!
1524
01:16:47,642 --> 01:16:49,477
They're gonna do my laundry.
1525
01:16:50,145 --> 01:16:51,938
You know what it's like?
Being reincarnated.
1526
01:16:52,022 --> 01:16:53,606
It's the greatest thing
I've ever done.
1527
01:16:53,773 --> 01:16:54,774
It's bigger
than winning Wimbledon,
1528
01:16:54,858 --> 01:16:57,277
bigger than Forest Hills,
bigger than the Pro Tour.
1529
01:16:57,444 --> 01:16:59,320
High point of my career,
maybe my life.
1530
01:16:59,487 --> 01:17:00,989
Hey, sweetie,
how about a cocktail?
1531
01:17:01,448 --> 01:17:02,615
There we go.
1532
01:17:02,782 --> 01:17:04,951
Oh, watch it!
I almost took your arms off.
1533
01:17:06,119 --> 01:17:07,996
(SHEEP BLEAT)
1534
01:17:09,831 --> 01:17:11,291
BOBBY: I'm not saying
that women
1535
01:17:11,332 --> 01:17:12,500
don't belong on the court.
1536
01:17:12,667 --> 01:17:15,795
I mean, heck, who would pick
up the balls otherwise?
1537
01:17:16,337 --> 01:17:19,841
But all of this shouting
and yammering about equality.
1538
01:17:20,175 --> 01:17:22,302
Equality this, equality that.
1539
01:17:22,469 --> 01:17:24,846
Hey, how about some equality
for Bobby Riggs?
1540
01:17:25,013 --> 01:17:27,849
This is my third
nude shoot today.
1541
01:17:28,475 --> 01:17:30,852
I'm this old guy,
trying to make ends meet
1542
01:17:30,977 --> 01:17:32,854
on the senior circuit,
getting paid peanuts.
1543
01:17:33,480 --> 01:17:34,814
But if I can beat the ladies
1544
01:17:34,856 --> 01:17:37,358
and get equal prize money,
thank you very much...
1545
01:17:37,650 --> 01:17:39,486
...well, then all the girls
can just head back
1546
01:17:39,569 --> 01:17:41,654
in the kitchen
where they belong.
1547
01:17:41,988 --> 01:17:43,364
Look, he can talk
all he likes.
1548
01:17:43,490 --> 01:17:45,033
That's one of the few things
he's good at.
1549
01:17:45,366 --> 01:17:47,827
But the only thing that
matters is who wins the match.
1550
01:17:48,495 --> 01:17:53,083
Tell me, what it my life
Without your love
1551
01:17:55,085 --> 01:18:00,256
Tell me, who am I
Without you
1552
01:18:02,842 --> 01:18:04,177
By my side
1553
01:18:08,181 --> 01:18:09,390
LORNIE: Bobby!
1554
01:18:11,059 --> 01:18:12,894
Bobby, let's play
some tennis, man!
1555
01:18:13,019 --> 01:18:14,562
LARRY RIGGS: Damn it, Dad.
1556
01:18:23,238 --> 01:18:25,448
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
1557
01:18:27,867 --> 01:18:29,202
BOBBY: Thank you.
1558
01:18:30,537 --> 01:18:32,539
-Dad.
-Hey, kiddo!
1559
01:18:33,039 --> 01:18:34,707
I thought we were practicing.
1560
01:18:34,874 --> 01:18:35,875
You know what
I have to say to that?
1561
01:18:35,959 --> 01:18:38,545
Margaret Court. 6-2, 6-1.
1562
01:18:38,753 --> 01:18:41,089
I don't need to practice,
I got a secret weapon.
1563
01:18:41,256 --> 01:18:42,549
Rheo Blair, I'd like you
to meet the most
1564
01:18:42,590 --> 01:18:45,051
important person
in my life...apart from me.
1565
01:18:45,385 --> 01:18:46,553
My son, Larry.
1566
01:18:46,928 --> 01:18:48,263
You tell him, Rheo.
1567
01:18:48,429 --> 01:18:50,348
Two words, Larry:
Super Nutrition.
1568
01:18:50,515 --> 01:18:52,016
Super Nutrition!
1569
01:18:52,851 --> 01:18:55,270
-You taking all of these?
-Four hundred a day!
1570
01:18:55,603 --> 01:18:56,604
You're kidding.
1571
01:18:56,771 --> 01:18:58,189
Yeah, I'm rattling
around a little bit,
1572
01:18:58,273 --> 01:18:59,941
but you know what?
I feel better than ever.
1573
01:19:00,525 --> 01:19:02,610
It's the A to Z
of amino acids.
1574
01:19:02,777 --> 01:19:06,364
Vitamins, protein pills,
some fat busters,
1575
01:19:06,447 --> 01:19:07,782
and some of Rheo's Specials.
1576
01:19:08,449 --> 01:19:09,784
What's in those?
1577
01:19:11,286 --> 01:19:12,787
Specialness.
1578
01:19:14,205 --> 01:19:15,373
Specialness!
1579
01:19:15,707 --> 01:19:18,042
Who needs to train?
I'm gonna live forever.
1580
01:19:18,459 --> 01:19:19,961
Yeah, but this, I don't know--
1581
01:19:20,128 --> 01:19:22,964
Oh, would you just relax?
Come on.
1582
01:19:24,299 --> 01:19:25,884
You saw
what I did to Margaret,
1583
01:19:25,967 --> 01:19:27,468
and she beat Billie Jean.
1584
01:19:29,762 --> 01:19:30,763
(COUGHS)
1585
01:19:33,766 --> 01:19:34,767
One down!
1586
01:19:35,894 --> 01:19:37,061
What's next?
1587
01:19:38,313 --> 01:19:39,689
She played like an idiot.
1588
01:19:39,772 --> 01:19:42,150
There's no comparison.
Margaret folds.
1589
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:44,569
You know Billie.
She loves pressure.
1590
01:19:44,903 --> 01:19:47,238
Yeah, but her game's
off right now.
1591
01:19:47,405 --> 01:19:48,948
It is. I mean,
I hate to say it,
1592
01:19:49,032 --> 01:19:50,491
but my money's on Bobby.
1593
01:19:50,658 --> 01:19:52,994
Yep. Mine, too.
1594
01:19:53,328 --> 01:19:54,829
Money that you have
because of Billie Jean.
1595
01:19:55,163 --> 01:19:57,040
It's not personal.
I don't want him to win.
1596
01:19:57,123 --> 01:19:58,833
I just think he will.
1597
01:19:58,917 --> 01:19:59,918
(TOILET FLUSHES)
1598
01:20:10,929 --> 01:20:12,222
I think that
if I had to bet money,
1599
01:20:12,305 --> 01:20:13,681
I would bet on Bobby Riggs.
1600
01:20:13,848 --> 01:20:15,266
Well, my money's
on Bobby Riggs.
1601
01:20:15,350 --> 01:20:16,851
I've played with him.
1602
01:20:17,018 --> 01:20:18,519
The man has
tremendous experience...
1603
01:20:18,686 --> 01:20:20,480
...and the male muscle
is always a little
1604
01:20:20,563 --> 01:20:22,106
stronger than
the female muscle.
1605
01:20:22,398 --> 01:20:24,025
Billie Jean King.
1606
01:20:24,359 --> 01:20:25,693
You're gonna want to see this.
1607
01:20:25,777 --> 01:20:26,778
BOBBY: What? Am I on?
1608
01:20:26,945 --> 01:20:28,112
You got to check this out.
1609
01:20:28,196 --> 01:20:30,615
GRIER: Billie Jean King is an
excellent player.
1610
01:20:30,782 --> 01:20:33,618
I think that besides that,
she's a beautiful lady.
1611
01:20:33,868 --> 01:20:35,370
And I like beautiful ladies.
1612
01:20:35,536 --> 01:20:37,163
I saw Bobby beat Margaret,
1613
01:20:37,247 --> 01:20:39,207
and I think that
he's a really tough player.
1614
01:20:39,374 --> 01:20:41,417
So I'd have to give him
the edge over Billie Jean.
1615
01:20:41,584 --> 01:20:42,585
I like it.
1616
01:20:42,752 --> 01:20:43,962
SPORTSCASTER: The breaking
news from Forest Hills
1617
01:20:44,045 --> 01:20:45,255
is that Billie Jean King...
1618
01:20:45,421 --> 01:20:46,631
...has defaulted
in her third-round match
1619
01:20:46,714 --> 01:20:48,091
against Julie Heldman.
1620
01:20:48,258 --> 01:20:49,926
Looking tired and dispirited,
1621
01:20:50,009 --> 01:20:52,512
Mrs. King left the court
after only one set.
1622
01:20:52,679 --> 01:20:54,013
Speculation mounts
that pressure from
1623
01:20:54,097 --> 01:20:55,682
the upcoming match
against Bobby Riggs...
1624
01:20:55,848 --> 01:20:57,183
...is taking its toll.
1625
01:20:57,558 --> 01:21:00,478
Taking its toll, baby!
I knew it!
1626
01:21:00,812 --> 01:21:03,481
She's crumbling, and I'm
hanging out by the pool!
1627
01:21:04,983 --> 01:21:07,652
Are you scamming me
to get more practice time?
1628
01:21:10,321 --> 01:21:11,572
I'm sick.
1629
01:21:11,906 --> 01:21:13,408
GLADYS: Let me see that.
1630
01:21:17,996 --> 01:21:19,497
Well, you're not dying.
1631
01:21:19,831 --> 01:21:21,332
Try to sound pleased.
1632
01:21:21,666 --> 01:21:24,043
Look, I love
the other girls, but...
1633
01:21:24,669 --> 01:21:26,838
...you're the draw.
You're my giant.
1634
01:21:27,005 --> 01:21:30,174
I'm a giant with the flu.
I don't know what to say.
1635
01:21:34,012 --> 01:21:35,513
Take two weeks off!
1636
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,182
Go somewhere,
do what you need to do, okay?
1637
01:21:38,349 --> 01:21:39,475
But you have a tournament
1638
01:21:39,559 --> 01:21:40,893
the day after that
match with Riggs...
1639
01:21:40,977 --> 01:21:42,437
...and, win or lose,
you're gonna be there.
1640
01:21:43,062 --> 01:21:44,314
Okay, thank you.
1641
01:21:44,772 --> 01:21:46,649
And just so you know,
if you lose,
1642
01:21:46,733 --> 01:21:48,609
I will never forgive you.
1643
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:55,283
(DOOR CLOSES)
1644
01:21:55,366 --> 01:21:57,702
Oh, Jesus, Larry.
1645
01:21:58,036 --> 01:22:01,122
It's too much. No wonder
my body's falling apart.
1646
01:22:10,298 --> 01:22:12,925
Okay, if there's somebody
that you need...
1647
01:22:13,259 --> 01:22:14,761
...that you want me to call...
1648
01:22:16,262 --> 01:22:17,597
...I can call her.
1649
01:22:21,642 --> 01:22:23,311
No, there's nobody.
1650
01:22:25,605 --> 01:22:27,273
REPORTER: And if you mistake
him for a fool,
1651
01:22:27,315 --> 01:22:29,317
you may end up
looking like one yourself.
1652
01:22:29,525 --> 01:22:31,861
Whether he's wearing a dress,
playing with an umbrella...
1653
01:22:32,111 --> 01:22:33,279
...or sporting this season's
1654
01:22:33,321 --> 01:22:35,782
must-have accessory,
a flock of sheep...
1655
01:22:36,115 --> 01:22:37,950
...Bobby has not
lost a match yet.
1656
01:22:38,159 --> 01:22:40,995
And as the Bobby Riggs circus
moves on to the next town...
1657
01:22:41,162 --> 01:22:42,205
...people are beginning
to wonder
1658
01:22:42,288 --> 01:22:44,332
what has happened
to the opposition.
1659
01:22:44,499 --> 01:22:47,168
Has she choked?
Has she fled the country?
1660
01:22:47,668 --> 01:22:51,130
After withdrawing from Forest
Hills with a virus, nobody...
1661
01:22:51,464 --> 01:22:54,342
...has seen even the ghost
of Billie Jean King.
1662
01:22:57,970 --> 01:23:00,139
Hey! Where are you going?
1663
01:23:00,807 --> 01:23:02,308
Where is she going?
1664
01:23:03,309 --> 01:23:04,644
My guess?
1665
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:07,522
Houston.
1666
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:13,569
ROONE: She does know
what time this is--
1667
01:23:13,653 --> 01:23:15,321
Yes, I told you.
1668
01:23:16,197 --> 01:23:17,698
Has she pulled out?
1669
01:23:17,865 --> 01:23:19,200
She was ill.
1670
01:23:19,492 --> 01:23:20,493
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
1671
01:23:22,995 --> 01:23:24,497
Sorry I'm late, gentlemen.
1672
01:23:24,997 --> 01:23:26,833
Hey, honey, how's the flu?
1673
01:23:26,999 --> 01:23:28,709
-LARRY: Flu?
-I heard you were ill.
1674
01:23:28,876 --> 01:23:31,504
No. Don't believe everything
you read in the papers, Bobby.
1675
01:23:31,671 --> 01:23:33,840
But thank you for the flowers.
I gave 'em to Rosie.
1676
01:23:34,006 --> 01:23:35,383
And I put 'em in the trash.
1677
01:23:35,508 --> 01:23:37,552
-Oh.
-(MEN CHUCKLING)
1678
01:23:37,718 --> 01:23:38,886
Billie Jean.
1679
01:23:39,679 --> 01:23:40,680
Jack.
1680
01:23:42,265 --> 01:23:44,517
(CHUCKLES)
What are you doing here?
1681
01:23:44,851 --> 01:23:47,019
Jack's my choice
of commentator for ABC.
1682
01:23:47,186 --> 01:23:48,187
BILLIE JEAN: Jack?
1683
01:23:49,355 --> 01:23:50,731
Oh, that won't work.
1684
01:23:50,898 --> 01:23:52,442
Now, Billie Jean,
no one's complaining
1685
01:23:52,525 --> 01:23:53,734
about Rosie doing
the play-by-play.
1686
01:23:54,193 --> 01:23:55,778
BILLIE JEAN:
Well, Rosie hasn't continually
1687
01:23:55,862 --> 01:23:57,196
tried to dismantle
women's tennis.
1688
01:23:57,530 --> 01:23:58,531
(KRAMER CHUCKLES)
1689
01:23:58,865 --> 01:24:01,075
You overstate
my influence, Billie Jean.
1690
01:24:01,242 --> 01:24:04,036
You blackballed us
from the USLTA, Jack.
1691
01:24:04,370 --> 01:24:06,372
We did you a favor.
Lousy organization.
1692
01:24:06,414 --> 01:24:07,707
Jack's my choice.
1693
01:24:07,874 --> 01:24:09,917
Sure make for
a punchy commentator.
1694
01:24:14,547 --> 01:24:15,882
I won't play.
1695
01:24:16,215 --> 01:24:19,218
Look, I just spent $750,000
on this event.
1696
01:24:19,385 --> 01:24:21,220
You can't pull out
the day before the match!
1697
01:24:22,221 --> 01:24:23,556
Says who?
1698
01:24:24,223 --> 01:24:25,224
KRAMER: Say...
1699
01:24:26,392 --> 01:24:28,269
...I wonder if we could...
1700
01:24:28,436 --> 01:24:30,605
...have a word,
just the two of us.
1701
01:24:42,909 --> 01:24:44,076
Billie Jean...
1702
01:24:44,410 --> 01:24:45,995
...I know we've had
our differences,
1703
01:24:46,078 --> 01:24:48,581
but that's behind us.
1704
01:24:49,248 --> 01:24:51,250
This is between you
and Bobby now.
1705
01:24:51,417 --> 01:24:52,418
Bobby?
1706
01:24:53,294 --> 01:24:55,421
Oh, Bobby's a clown.
1707
01:24:55,922 --> 01:24:57,465
This whole thing's
an act for him, Jack.
1708
01:24:57,590 --> 01:24:58,925
You know that.
1709
01:24:59,467 --> 01:25:02,094
With you it's different.
It's for real.
1710
01:25:02,595 --> 01:25:03,930
What do you mean?
1711
01:25:06,724 --> 01:25:08,392
I don't think
you respect women.
1712
01:25:08,601 --> 01:25:09,602
(CHUCKLES)
1713
01:25:10,811 --> 01:25:12,813
I've been happily married
for 32 years.
1714
01:25:12,980 --> 01:25:15,650
No, I think you like us in the
kitchen and the bedroom.
1715
01:25:15,983 --> 01:25:18,319
I think you are a gentleman,
and I mean that.
1716
01:25:18,486 --> 01:25:19,946
Thank you.
I'll take my compliments
1717
01:25:20,071 --> 01:25:21,656
where I can from you.
1718
01:25:21,989 --> 01:25:24,659
It's when we dare
to want a little bit more.
1719
01:25:25,952 --> 01:25:27,995
Just a little bit
of what you've got.
1720
01:25:28,955 --> 01:25:30,623
That's what you can't stand.
1721
01:25:31,123 --> 01:25:33,459
-Oh. Really?
-Yeah.
1722
01:25:34,126 --> 01:25:35,628
And to have you telling
the American public
1723
01:25:35,753 --> 01:25:37,630
what to read into every serve?
1724
01:25:38,297 --> 01:25:39,632
Every point?
1725
01:25:42,176 --> 01:25:43,261
I'm sorry, Jack.
1726
01:25:43,302 --> 01:25:45,012
If you're commentating,
I'm not playing.
1727
01:25:45,346 --> 01:25:46,472
How do you think
that's gonna make
1728
01:25:46,597 --> 01:25:48,349
the great Billie
Jean King look?
1729
01:25:48,516 --> 01:25:49,642
Backing out at the last minute
1730
01:25:49,767 --> 01:25:52,144
just because she didn't like
the commentator?
1731
01:25:52,311 --> 01:25:53,437
I think it's pretty
similar to how
1732
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:55,523
it'll make the great
Jack Kramer look.
1733
01:25:56,023 --> 01:25:57,316
Shutting the whole thing down
1734
01:25:57,441 --> 01:25:59,318
because he didn't
get to participate.
1735
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:03,698
No. That's not gonna happen.
1736
01:26:04,031 --> 01:26:05,825
You're not gonna do this.
1737
01:26:05,992 --> 01:26:09,036
This means too much to you.
You and your Sisterhood.
1738
01:26:09,203 --> 01:26:10,663
You'd never throw it
1739
01:26:10,788 --> 01:26:12,039
over something like this.
You won't.
1740
01:26:12,206 --> 01:26:15,042
Do you remember the last time
you thought I was bluffing?
1741
01:26:15,710 --> 01:26:17,044
One dollar.
1742
01:26:22,550 --> 01:26:23,676
You know
the difference between
1743
01:26:23,718 --> 01:26:25,553
a good player and a great?
1744
01:26:25,886 --> 01:26:29,056
The great players never let
emotion get in the way.
1745
01:26:29,515 --> 01:26:31,517
It messes with their game.
1746
01:26:42,194 --> 01:26:43,529
Sorry, Bobby.
1747
01:26:50,202 --> 01:26:51,579
REPORTER: Any last
minute thoughts, Billie Jean?
1748
01:26:51,704 --> 01:26:53,039
Are you going to win?
1749
01:26:53,205 --> 01:26:54,540
Of course she's gonna win.
1750
01:26:54,707 --> 01:26:56,542
Against an old guy
like Bobby Riggs, sure.
1751
01:26:56,584 --> 01:26:58,878
Let her play Rosewall
or Nastase.
1752
01:26:59,253 --> 01:27:01,422
Men are better. End of story.
1753
01:27:01,589 --> 01:27:03,090
I'm not saying
women are better.
1754
01:27:03,215 --> 01:27:04,425
I've never said that.
1755
01:27:04,675 --> 01:27:06,385
I'm saying
we deserve some respect.
1756
01:27:07,386 --> 01:27:09,597
More than Bobby Riggs
or you are giving us.
1757
01:27:09,764 --> 01:27:11,432
Sir, do you have a daughter?
1758
01:27:11,599 --> 01:27:14,101
Or a sister? You sure as heck
have a mother.
1759
01:27:14,268 --> 01:27:15,686
Is your father better
than your mother?
1760
01:27:15,728 --> 01:27:17,521
Just because he's a man?
Do you believe that?
1761
01:27:17,938 --> 01:27:18,939
No.
1762
01:27:19,065 --> 01:27:20,274
But that's what
you're saying...
1763
01:27:20,399 --> 01:27:21,734
whether you think
you are or not.
1764
01:27:21,901 --> 01:27:24,278
If I beat Bobby Riggs,
will you stop saying it?
1765
01:27:24,612 --> 01:27:25,613
Okay.
1766
01:27:25,946 --> 01:27:27,782
Sir, I'm gonna
hold you to that.
1767
01:27:27,948 --> 01:27:29,784
If I see you,
I'm gonna hold you to that.
1768
01:27:29,950 --> 01:27:31,077
Thank you.
That's it for today.
1769
01:27:31,118 --> 01:27:32,620
We'll see you at the match.
1770
01:28:18,290 --> 01:28:19,417
Let's get this show
on the road.
1771
01:28:19,458 --> 01:28:20,793
Here you go, Bobby.
1772
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:28,801
(COUGHS)
1773
01:28:33,139 --> 01:28:34,974
-Dad?
-Yeah?
1774
01:28:35,725 --> 01:28:37,727
I'm just gonna watch it here.
1775
01:28:40,062 --> 01:28:42,982
What do you mean?
This is it. This is the day.
1776
01:28:43,315 --> 01:28:45,067
I'm sorry. I'm...
1777
01:28:45,943 --> 01:28:47,278
...I'm not coming.
1778
01:28:50,239 --> 01:28:52,408
You don't think I'm gonna
lose, do you, kiddo?
1779
01:28:52,491 --> 01:28:53,492
No.
1780
01:28:53,576 --> 01:28:56,746
You'll do great.
You don't need me.
1781
01:28:57,079 --> 01:28:58,414
Good luck, Dad.
1782
01:29:05,838 --> 01:29:07,506
This one's from
Jennifer in Tucson.
1783
01:29:07,590 --> 01:29:09,925
"Good luck, Billie Jean,
we're all rooting for you."
1784
01:29:10,259 --> 01:29:11,594
This one's from Annie
from New York.
1785
01:29:11,677 --> 01:29:13,012
"Go, Billie,
we know you're gonna win."
1786
01:29:13,179 --> 01:29:15,431
You've lost weight.
I have to take this in.
1787
01:29:15,598 --> 01:29:17,600
-We don't have time.
-TED AND HENRY: We have time.
1788
01:29:17,767 --> 01:29:20,186
-How you feeling, honey?
-Do you need anything? Water?
1789
01:29:20,352 --> 01:29:21,520
No, I'm good, thank you.
1790
01:29:21,687 --> 01:29:23,189
Twenty minutes to game time.
1791
01:29:23,272 --> 01:29:25,858
Rosie Casals,
they need you in the studio.
1792
01:29:27,109 --> 01:29:28,444
You're gonna kill him.
1793
01:29:29,862 --> 01:29:32,198
-I'll see you guys in a bit.
-Good luck out there.
1794
01:29:32,531 --> 01:29:34,950
Now, I have to ask,
do you really intend to
1795
01:29:35,034 --> 01:29:37,286
inflict blue suede shoes...
1796
01:29:37,453 --> 01:29:39,789
...on ninety million members
of the viewing public?
1797
01:29:39,955 --> 01:29:42,124
How many?
Oh, my God. Billie Jean!
1798
01:29:42,291 --> 01:29:43,334
If they're good enough
for Elvis,
1799
01:29:43,375 --> 01:29:44,710
they're good enough for me.
1800
01:29:44,877 --> 01:29:46,629
Well, something's off.
1801
01:29:47,379 --> 01:29:49,381
-And I think it's the shoes.
-It's not the shoes!
1802
01:29:49,548 --> 01:29:50,800
Your hair?
1803
01:29:56,972 --> 01:29:58,891
Mom, Dad, this is Marilyn.
1804
01:29:59,391 --> 01:30:00,476
My hairdresser.
1805
01:30:00,643 --> 01:30:02,561
Pleased to meet you.
1806
01:30:03,646 --> 01:30:05,481
Well, if there's one thing
I know, it's...
1807
01:30:05,815 --> 01:30:08,484
...never get between a woman
and her hairdresser.
1808
01:30:08,734 --> 01:30:10,027
TED: Very funny. Yes indeed.
1809
01:30:10,402 --> 01:30:11,904
DAD: Come on.
Let's find our seats.
1810
01:30:12,238 --> 01:30:14,156
Here. I'll take you up there.
1811
01:30:18,577 --> 01:30:19,578
Good luck.
1812
01:30:20,079 --> 01:30:22,581
-Thank you.
-MOM: Yeah, give 'em heck.
1813
01:30:22,873 --> 01:30:24,875
Billie Jean, I'll be back
to take you to the court.
1814
01:30:25,251 --> 01:30:26,252
All right.
1815
01:30:29,171 --> 01:30:31,006
-Hi.
-Hi.
1816
01:30:34,844 --> 01:30:36,595
Your hairdresser, huh?
1817
01:30:39,098 --> 01:30:41,767
-What was I supposed to say?
-No, you're right.
1818
01:30:42,935 --> 01:30:44,436
That's why I'm here.
1819
01:30:47,857 --> 01:30:49,024
Come on.
1820
01:30:49,942 --> 01:30:50,943
Sugar
Daddy
1821
01:30:51,026 --> 01:30:53,153
Yeah, just like that.
That looks great.
1822
01:30:53,445 --> 01:30:55,865
Yep, zip her up. Oh, boy!
(CHUCKLES)
1823
01:30:56,365 --> 01:30:58,242
We need the "Sugar Daddy"
facing camera.
1824
01:30:58,284 --> 01:31:00,286
-Mmm-hmm.
-We got to see that.
1825
01:31:00,452 --> 01:31:02,288
Do you want me to hold it
from the stick?
1826
01:31:02,371 --> 01:31:04,123
-Uh...
-Am I gonna hold it that way?
1827
01:31:04,290 --> 01:31:06,041
That looks great.
1828
01:31:06,208 --> 01:31:08,711
We're trying to prepare
for the match.
1829
01:31:08,878 --> 01:31:12,381
-So the camera can see it.
-Yeah, up high. Beautiful.
1830
01:31:12,631 --> 01:31:14,884
I'll get it up nice and high.
1831
01:31:15,050 --> 01:31:16,886
-We got it. Thank you.
-Have a great match.
1832
01:31:17,136 --> 01:31:19,722
BOBBY: Thank you. Thank you,
ladies. See you out there.
1833
01:31:20,973 --> 01:31:22,975
See you out there. Good work.
1834
01:31:24,059 --> 01:31:25,644
SUGAR DADDY GUY:
Do it for the men, Bobby.
1835
01:31:26,228 --> 01:31:29,064
-Wow. You good?
-Yeah! I'm ready for battle.
1836
01:31:29,315 --> 01:31:32,151
TV DIRECTOR: Stand by, Howard.
We are live in five...
1837
01:31:32,318 --> 01:31:34,820
...four...three...
1838
01:31:37,907 --> 01:31:41,076
HOWARD COSELL: The following
is an exclusive presentation
1839
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:42,411
of ABC Sports.
1840
01:31:42,578 --> 01:31:45,748
Live from the Astrodome
in Houston, Texas...
1841
01:31:45,915 --> 01:31:48,167
...the Tennis Battle
of the Sexes,
1842
01:31:48,250 --> 01:31:50,920
Billie Jean King
vs. Bobby Riggs.
1843
01:31:51,754 --> 01:31:53,088
-(SIGHS)
-What a scene it is!
1844
01:31:53,172 --> 01:31:54,506
The Houston Astrodome...
1845
01:31:54,673 --> 01:31:56,425
...where up till now
they've played
1846
01:31:56,508 --> 01:31:59,678
almost every sport
in the world except tennis.
1847
01:32:00,179 --> 01:32:02,932
But in this panoramic scene,
a happening.
1848
01:32:03,098 --> 01:32:04,683
With the big band here,
1849
01:32:04,808 --> 01:32:07,853
with dancing cheerleaders,
and all of the rest.
1850
01:32:08,187 --> 01:32:10,147
It's hard to believe,
but probably
1851
01:32:10,189 --> 01:32:13,192
more than 30,000 people
are in this arena...
1852
01:32:13,525 --> 01:32:15,486
...for an all-time-record
tennis audience
1853
01:32:15,527 --> 01:32:17,154
anywhere in the world.
1854
01:32:17,196 --> 01:32:19,323
(LIVELY CHATTER)
1855
01:32:23,702 --> 01:32:25,079
I AM A MALE CHAUVINIST
1856
01:32:27,206 --> 01:32:29,208
GO BOBBY GO!
1857
01:32:30,042 --> 01:32:31,877
TV DIRECTOR:
And zoom in on five.
1858
01:32:32,294 --> 01:32:33,629
Is that a priest?
1859
01:32:33,796 --> 01:32:36,048
Yeah. If Bobby wins,
she takes the groom's surname.
1860
01:32:36,215 --> 01:32:38,467
But if Billie Jean wins,
the groom takes her name.
1861
01:32:38,550 --> 01:32:42,638
(LAUGHS)
Little flip-flop. Oh, boy.
1862
01:32:42,972 --> 01:32:44,139
ROONE: Where's Billie Jean?
1863
01:32:44,306 --> 01:32:45,349
TV ANNOUNCER: Can somebody--
1864
01:32:45,391 --> 01:32:46,850
Does anybody know
where she is?
1865
01:32:47,518 --> 01:32:49,520
(SIGHS) What do you mean,
you lost her?
1866
01:32:50,145 --> 01:32:52,564
She's getting a trim.
She'll be right out.
1867
01:32:53,399 --> 01:32:54,817
Yeah, like a haircut.
1868
01:33:01,740 --> 01:33:03,075
(CHUCKLES)
1869
01:33:13,419 --> 01:33:14,753
I missed you.
1870
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:18,841
I know.
1871
01:33:25,180 --> 01:33:27,266
Uh, ten minutes to game time!
1872
01:33:31,937 --> 01:33:33,439
Stay for the match?
1873
01:33:36,108 --> 01:33:37,943
-Are you sure?
-Yes.
1874
01:33:39,028 --> 01:33:40,112
Please.
1875
01:33:42,114 --> 01:33:43,240
(SIGHS)
1876
01:33:44,033 --> 01:33:45,909
There was, would you believe,
a problem
1877
01:33:45,951 --> 01:33:48,037
about one of
our announcers to be:
1878
01:33:48,203 --> 01:33:50,581
Jack Kramer.
The famed tennis promoter.
1879
01:33:50,622 --> 01:33:52,750
The famed tennis player
of the past.
1880
01:33:52,916 --> 01:33:55,252
We wanted Jack Kramer.
We respected him.
1881
01:33:55,294 --> 01:33:56,920
He would have been
on our telecast.
1882
01:33:57,129 --> 01:33:58,881
Roll the Jack Kramer clip.
1883
01:33:59,381 --> 01:34:01,300
Billie Jean's gonna love this!
1884
01:34:01,467 --> 01:34:03,135
KRAMER: I want to make
one thing clear.
1885
01:34:03,552 --> 01:34:05,721
When I realized that
I was perhaps a problem...
1886
01:34:05,971 --> 01:34:07,431
...I thought maybe Billie Jean
1887
01:34:07,473 --> 01:34:09,224
would want to use me
as an excuse...
1888
01:34:09,308 --> 01:34:10,976
...if she lost
against Bobby Riggs.
1889
01:34:11,810 --> 01:34:13,395
To ABC's credit...
1890
01:34:13,645 --> 01:34:15,230
...they said,
"You call the shots, Jack,
1891
01:34:15,314 --> 01:34:16,732
"we'll go along with you."
1892
01:34:16,899 --> 01:34:19,151
But I'm withdrawing
voluntarily...
1893
01:34:19,318 --> 01:34:20,736
-(SCOFFS)
-...and I'm wishing
1894
01:34:20,819 --> 01:34:23,322
a hundred percent good luck
to my pal, Bobby Riggs.
1895
01:34:23,489 --> 01:34:26,325
Okay, Jack, you know
how much we respect you.
1896
01:34:26,492 --> 01:34:28,577
They are ready for you
in the holding area.
1897
01:34:28,911 --> 01:34:30,412
I'll walk you down there.
1898
01:34:31,997 --> 01:34:33,749
I think I'm gonna go
on my own.
1899
01:34:34,917 --> 01:34:36,752
-Okay?
-Yeah.
1900
01:34:37,836 --> 01:34:38,837
(CHUCKLES)
1901
01:34:56,855 --> 01:34:58,982
(SQUEALING)
1902
01:35:01,652 --> 01:35:03,695
(LIVELY CHATTER)
1903
01:35:12,204 --> 01:35:14,414
The package is in the room.
1904
01:35:21,713 --> 01:35:23,882
JERRY: Billie! Billie Jean!
1905
01:35:24,216 --> 01:35:25,551
This is for you.
1906
01:35:27,219 --> 01:35:28,887
-All right.
-(BOTH LAUGH)
1907
01:35:29,429 --> 01:35:30,764
Gentlemen, let's go.
1908
01:35:34,184 --> 01:35:36,061
(MARCH BAND PLAYING)
1909
01:35:47,573 --> 01:35:49,241
ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,
1910
01:35:49,366 --> 01:35:51,785
the Battle of the Sexes
is about to begin.
1911
01:35:52,286 --> 01:35:54,746
Introducing six-time
Wimbledon champion...
1912
01:35:54,913 --> 01:35:57,291
...four-time women's champion
of the United States...
1913
01:35:57,457 --> 01:35:59,960
...winner of the Grand Slam
of women's tennis...
1914
01:36:00,127 --> 01:36:02,296
Billie Jean King!
1915
01:36:02,421 --> 01:36:04,256
(CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING)
1916
01:36:12,389 --> 01:36:14,933
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1917
01:36:31,158 --> 01:36:33,410
TV REPORTER: There is
an overwhelming sentiment
1918
01:36:33,452 --> 01:36:35,162
for Billie Jean King.
1919
01:36:35,329 --> 01:36:36,997
Very attractive young lady...
1920
01:36:37,164 --> 01:36:38,749
...and sometimes
you get the feeling
1921
01:36:38,790 --> 01:36:40,500
that if she ever
let her hair grow...
1922
01:36:41,126 --> 01:36:42,628
...and took her glasses off,
1923
01:36:42,669 --> 01:36:45,464
you'd have somebody vying
for a Hollywood screen test.
1924
01:36:46,256 --> 01:36:48,091
-Oh! Here comes Bobby Riggs.
-Ah.
1925
01:36:48,133 --> 01:36:50,093
You see him now
in the picture.
1926
01:36:50,969 --> 01:36:52,137
ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,
1927
01:36:52,179 --> 01:36:54,181
please welcome
Grand Slam champion...
1928
01:36:54,348 --> 01:36:58,310
...and Tennis Hall of Famer,
Bobby Riggs!
1929
01:36:58,352 --> 01:36:59,478
(CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING)
1930
01:36:59,603 --> 01:37:00,938
TV REPORTER:
A long-awaited match,
1931
01:37:00,979 --> 01:37:02,314
hustled and promoted...
1932
01:37:02,522 --> 01:37:05,984
...ceaselessly and shrewdly
by Bobby Riggs.
1933
01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:07,444
There's Bobby.
1934
01:37:07,486 --> 01:37:10,697
The big act, the big bluster,
the big noise.
1935
01:37:11,323 --> 01:37:13,033
Now he's got
steeper competition
1936
01:37:13,158 --> 01:37:14,952
with Billie Jean King.
1937
01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:16,870
This thing is nuts.
1938
01:37:18,038 --> 01:37:21,166
All right, we're back
on camera and this is our...
1939
01:37:21,333 --> 01:37:23,543
...female expert tonight.
Recognize her?
1940
01:37:23,669 --> 01:37:25,337
Little Rosie Casals.
1941
01:37:25,879 --> 01:37:28,507
Now, you say Billie Jean
will win in three sets?
1942
01:37:28,674 --> 01:37:29,883
Yes, I definitely think so.
1943
01:37:30,008 --> 01:37:31,510
I think she's
a better tennis player...
1944
01:37:31,677 --> 01:37:33,720
...and I think what happened
with the Court and Riggs match
1945
01:37:33,845 --> 01:37:35,389
will not happen tonight.
1946
01:37:35,555 --> 01:37:37,391
Billie Jean will beat him,
definitely.
1947
01:37:38,058 --> 01:37:39,601
Well, I got
this beautiful lollipop
1948
01:37:39,685 --> 01:37:41,061
for Billie Jean.
1949
01:37:41,228 --> 01:37:43,563
I figure she's gonna be
a sucker for my lob.
1950
01:37:44,147 --> 01:37:46,692
I got something for you too,
Bobby, actually.
1951
01:37:46,775 --> 01:37:49,152
It's the ultimate gift
for a male chauvinist.
1952
01:37:50,070 --> 01:37:51,363
Ugh...
1953
01:37:51,863 --> 01:37:53,198
There you go.
1954
01:37:53,573 --> 01:37:55,909
-(SQUEALING)
-Oh, that's okay, that's okay.
1955
01:37:56,201 --> 01:37:58,078
Any last words
before the match, Bobby?
1956
01:37:58,245 --> 01:37:59,705
Well, this match
is for all the guys
1957
01:37:59,788 --> 01:38:01,248
around the world
that feel as I do...
1958
01:38:01,415 --> 01:38:03,542
...that the male is king,
the male is supreme.
1959
01:38:03,625 --> 01:38:05,711
-(MEN CHEERING)
-Billie Jean?
1960
01:38:05,877 --> 01:38:07,754
I'm done talking. Let's play.
1961
01:38:08,046 --> 01:38:10,424
-Oh!
-Ooh!
1962
01:38:11,633 --> 01:38:13,385
(LAUGHING)
1963
01:38:13,885 --> 01:38:15,887
(CROWD CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING)
1964
01:38:17,389 --> 01:38:18,640
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
1965
01:38:46,084 --> 01:38:47,961
HOWARD COSELL:
They have started the match.
1966
01:38:48,253 --> 01:38:50,255
Service, Billie Jean.
1967
01:38:52,132 --> 01:38:53,967
(CROWD EXCLAIMS AND APPLAUDS)
1968
01:38:54,134 --> 01:38:55,469
HOWARD COSELL: Love-15.
1969
01:38:55,635 --> 01:38:56,636
Bobby.
1970
01:38:56,970 --> 01:38:58,972
-JACK: Make us some money.
-That a boy.
1971
01:39:02,434 --> 01:39:04,144
HOWARD COSELL:
This match, of course,
1972
01:39:04,269 --> 01:39:06,772
is going by satellite
all around the world.
1973
01:39:09,107 --> 01:39:11,109
(CROWD APPLAUDS)
1974
01:39:12,110 --> 01:39:13,779
HOWARD COSELL: 15-all.
1975
01:39:14,488 --> 01:39:16,615
And you'll hear the crowd
responding all night
1976
01:39:16,656 --> 01:39:19,368
to every point
won by Billie Jean.
1977
01:39:26,124 --> 01:39:28,126
(CROWD APPLAUDS)
1978
01:39:32,672 --> 01:39:34,007
Attagirl.
1979
01:39:34,299 --> 01:39:35,467
GENE SCOTT:
Bobby's already starting.
1980
01:39:35,675 --> 01:39:37,844
Shouted "Attagirl" right after
Billie hit the winner.
1981
01:39:38,303 --> 01:39:39,471
ROSIE: When he starts losing,
1982
01:39:39,513 --> 01:39:40,847
I don't think
he's gonna say "Attagirl".
1983
01:39:41,014 --> 01:39:42,516
He's confident.
1984
01:39:43,350 --> 01:39:45,143
HOWARD COSELL: Not everybody
is for Billie Jean.
1985
01:39:45,227 --> 01:39:46,645
Some are for
1986
01:39:46,686 --> 01:39:48,355
the self-proclaimed
male chauvinist.
1987
01:39:48,814 --> 01:39:51,483
What he has to lose
if he loses this match!
1988
01:39:51,817 --> 01:39:53,151
ROSIE: He'll have to go back
1989
01:39:53,235 --> 01:39:55,195
to cooking and doing
the housework.
1990
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:56,488
(CROWD CHEERING)
1991
01:39:56,571 --> 01:39:57,989
HOWARD COSELL:
Game, Billie Jean King,
1992
01:39:58,073 --> 01:39:59,825
and the crowd loves it.
1993
01:40:00,659 --> 01:40:02,994
They're getting ready
to exchange courts.
1994
01:40:03,328 --> 01:40:06,498
Billie Jean leads
one game to love.
1995
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:11,169
Bobby, you got to take
that damn jacket off.
1996
01:40:11,837 --> 01:40:13,547
They gave me twenty G's.
I got to keep it on.
1997
01:40:13,672 --> 01:40:15,173
I don't care,
you've got to take it off.
1998
01:40:16,007 --> 01:40:17,008
(GRUNTS)
1999
01:40:28,937 --> 01:40:30,188
(CROWD CHEERING)
2000
01:40:30,230 --> 01:40:32,399
HOWARD COSELL:
Nicely placed by Bobby Riggs.
2001
01:40:32,691 --> 01:40:34,443
ROSIE: I think she's too
tentative at the moment.
2002
01:40:34,526 --> 01:40:36,069
That's really the problem.
2003
01:40:36,361 --> 01:40:38,113
HOWARD COSELL:
What is her overall strategy?
2004
01:40:38,196 --> 01:40:39,364
You're so close to her.
2005
01:40:39,865 --> 01:40:41,032
Well, psychologically
2006
01:40:41,074 --> 01:40:42,742
she's a better
pressure player.
2007
01:40:42,909 --> 01:40:44,786
Billie Jean's basically
like another Bobby Riggs.
2008
01:40:44,870 --> 01:40:46,037
She's a hustler.
2009
01:40:46,204 --> 01:40:47,622
She can take
that type of pressure
2010
01:40:47,706 --> 01:40:49,207
and give the same stuff
back to him.
2011
01:40:49,374 --> 01:40:51,710
-Still no Riggs.
-Right.
2012
01:40:52,544 --> 01:40:54,546
HOWARD COSELL: We're at 40-15.
2013
01:41:00,427 --> 01:41:01,553
(CROWD CHEERING)
2014
01:41:01,595 --> 01:41:03,763
ROSIE: Fun to see the old man
run for that one.
2015
01:41:03,930 --> 01:41:06,433
HOWARD COSELL: If Billie Jean
can keep Bobby running,
2016
01:41:06,558 --> 01:41:08,059
I think she could
wear him down.
2017
01:41:09,436 --> 01:41:13,273
Hence, the jacket begins to be
taken off by Bobby Riggs...
2018
01:41:13,607 --> 01:41:17,235
...and maybe the braggadocio
a little bit reduced.
2019
01:41:17,569 --> 01:41:19,446
A concession to the fact
that Riggs...
2020
01:41:19,613 --> 01:41:23,283
...perhaps knows he's running
into firm competition.
2021
01:41:23,575 --> 01:41:24,951
ROSIE: I think he's gonna
start taking
2022
01:41:25,076 --> 01:41:26,578
some of the vitamin pills.
2023
01:41:26,661 --> 01:41:28,413
He's gonna start needing them.
2024
01:41:36,087 --> 01:41:37,964
HOWARD COSELL:
Game point for Bobby.
2025
01:41:39,090 --> 01:41:40,800
GENE SCOTT:
Rosie, she looks tense to me.
2026
01:41:40,967 --> 01:41:42,511
ROSIE: She is tense.
No doubt about that.
2027
01:41:42,594 --> 01:41:44,095
This is
a very important match.
2028
01:41:44,137 --> 01:41:45,847
(CROWD CHEERING)
2029
01:41:46,932 --> 01:41:49,768
HOWARD COSELL: And Bobby Riggs
breaks through.
2030
01:41:50,268 --> 01:41:52,604
The first perhaps
turning point in...
2031
01:41:53,313 --> 01:41:55,315
...the first set
of this match.
2032
01:41:55,649 --> 01:41:58,276
Bobby Riggs leading
Billie Jean King.
2033
01:41:58,610 --> 01:41:59,819
GENE SCOTT:
He had the pressure on him.
2034
01:41:59,945 --> 01:42:01,988
He responded very well.
2035
01:42:02,322 --> 01:42:04,449
HOWARD COSELL: And Billie Jean
did not respond well
2036
01:42:04,574 --> 01:42:06,785
on that shot.
Advantage to Bobby Riggs.
2037
01:42:06,910 --> 01:42:07,953
Attaboy.
2038
01:42:19,005 --> 01:42:20,131
(CROWD CHEERING)
2039
01:42:20,173 --> 01:42:22,300
HOWARD COSELL:
Marvelous shot by Bobby...
2040
01:42:22,592 --> 01:42:25,637
...and a great quick swing
by Billie Jean.
2041
01:42:26,513 --> 01:42:29,683
Billie answering great.
She did what she had to do...
2042
01:42:29,849 --> 01:42:32,310
...and she did it
her way, Gene.
2043
01:42:35,313 --> 01:42:37,357
And a great shot
by Bobby Riggs.
2044
01:42:45,031 --> 01:42:46,825
LIBBERS NOT LOBBERS
2045
01:42:51,663 --> 01:42:52,789
(CROWD CHEERING)
2046
01:42:52,831 --> 01:42:54,291
ROSIE: There it is.
2047
01:42:54,457 --> 01:42:57,168
HOWARD COSELL: And the first
set goes to Billie Jean King.
2048
01:42:57,377 --> 01:42:59,045
Point and set.
2049
01:42:59,379 --> 01:43:01,548
The women in this arena
are standing
2050
01:43:01,673 --> 01:43:03,883
and cheering
for Billie Jean King.
2051
01:43:04,718 --> 01:43:06,678
ROSIE: Bobby doesn't
look very happy.
2052
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:08,888
He's sort of walking
with his head down.
2053
01:43:09,055 --> 01:43:10,682
I think he's gonna get
a little strategy
2054
01:43:10,807 --> 01:43:12,684
from his coach over there.
2055
01:43:13,059 --> 01:43:15,228
GENE SCOTT: They have
a four-minute break, Howard.
2056
01:43:15,562 --> 01:43:17,480
HOWARD COSELL: I suppose
we all expected to have
2057
01:43:17,522 --> 01:43:19,524
some high humor
involved in it.
2058
01:43:19,691 --> 01:43:21,026
Instead, it seems
to have become
2059
01:43:21,151 --> 01:43:23,236
a very, very serious thing,
because...
2060
01:43:23,403 --> 01:43:26,156
...the comedy has gone out
of Bobby Riggs.
2061
01:43:30,535 --> 01:43:33,079
The second game of the second
set has just begun...
2062
01:43:33,246 --> 01:43:34,539
...Bobby Riggs serving,
2063
01:43:34,581 --> 01:43:36,541
having broken through
Billie Jean King...
2064
01:43:36,708 --> 01:43:39,878
...one game to none
in favor of Bobby Riggs.
2065
01:43:40,920 --> 01:43:43,548
And Billie Jean is seeking
to strike back.
2066
01:43:52,557 --> 01:43:53,558
(SIGHS)
2067
01:43:53,683 --> 01:43:54,684
HOWARD COSELL:
Billie Jean is killing him
2068
01:43:54,726 --> 01:43:56,853
with that overhand smash,
I'll tell you that.
2069
01:43:57,228 --> 01:43:59,564
GENE SCOTT: Bobby suddenly has
become an underdog, Howard.
2070
01:43:59,731 --> 01:44:01,399
HOWARD COSELL: Yes, some
of them are cheering for him.
2071
01:44:06,613 --> 01:44:07,739
Beautiful.
2072
01:44:07,864 --> 01:44:09,407
(CROWD CHEERING)
2073
01:44:09,449 --> 01:44:11,117
Billie Jean King...
2074
01:44:12,077 --> 01:44:15,121
...has won the second set,
six games to three.
2075
01:44:15,455 --> 01:44:17,791
She leads two sets to love...
2076
01:44:18,124 --> 01:44:21,920
...and it's so far a very
great night for the ladies.
2077
01:44:22,253 --> 01:44:24,422
Bobby Riggs is fighting
for his tennis life.
2078
01:44:24,964 --> 01:44:27,133
She's filled
with confidence now.
2079
01:44:27,300 --> 01:44:29,636
ROSIE: Great shot!
HOWARD COSELL: Marvelous shot!
2080
01:44:30,261 --> 01:44:32,430
Bobby trails
four games to two.
2081
01:44:32,597 --> 01:44:34,974
No question about it,
Billie Jean has been
2082
01:44:35,100 --> 01:44:37,102
the aggressor in this match.
2083
01:44:37,310 --> 01:44:38,436
ROSIE: I think we're having
2084
01:44:38,561 --> 01:44:39,938
a little problem
with his hand.
2085
01:44:40,105 --> 01:44:41,606
He keeps pulling
on his fingers,
2086
01:44:41,731 --> 01:44:44,275
and to me that says
he's getting a cramp.
2087
01:44:44,442 --> 01:44:45,443
HOWARD COSELL:
He's having the hand
2088
01:44:45,568 --> 01:44:46,778
and the arm looked at.
2089
01:44:46,986 --> 01:44:48,113
ROSIE: Is this an injury then?
2090
01:44:48,238 --> 01:44:49,447
HOWARD COSELL:
This is an injury.
2091
01:44:49,614 --> 01:44:51,658
Five minutes delay
for an injury.
2092
01:44:51,991 --> 01:44:54,119
ROSIE: I knew it would come
to this. I knew...
2093
01:44:54,452 --> 01:44:56,663
...Bobby would have
to come down to something.
2094
01:44:56,955 --> 01:44:57,997
(CHUCKLES) Like injuries.
2095
01:44:58,164 --> 01:45:00,458
HOWARD COSELL: Let me say this
about Bobby Riggs, Rosie.
2096
01:45:00,625 --> 01:45:02,961
You've gotten in
all your licks tonight
2097
01:45:03,002 --> 01:45:04,504
at the guy, and that's fine.
2098
01:45:04,671 --> 01:45:08,633
And he made a lot of noise
about male chauvinism and...
2099
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:10,135
...the women belonged
in the kitchen,
2100
01:45:10,176 --> 01:45:11,469
and all the rest.
2101
01:45:11,803 --> 01:45:15,181
But he is 55,
and he's some kind of guy.
2102
01:45:15,473 --> 01:45:16,850
ROSIE: I agree.
But I don't think
2103
01:45:16,975 --> 01:45:18,268
he belongs on the court...
2104
01:45:18,309 --> 01:45:20,478
...with somebody
of Billie Jean's caliber.
2105
01:45:21,980 --> 01:45:23,148
HOWARD COSELL: Well, the way
it's proving
2106
01:45:23,189 --> 01:45:24,274
out at the moment...
2107
01:45:24,858 --> 01:45:26,651
...turns out
that you are right,
2108
01:45:26,693 --> 01:45:28,695
if it ends this way.
2109
01:45:30,321 --> 01:45:33,825
Okay, Bobby's ready to serve,
trailing in the third set.
2110
01:45:34,367 --> 01:45:36,161
Here we go, Bobby,
what do you say?
2111
01:45:39,038 --> 01:45:40,206
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-Attaboy!
2112
01:45:41,166 --> 01:45:42,500
HOWARD COSELL: 15-love.
2113
01:45:42,709 --> 01:45:46,171
One of the fans yelling,
"Come on, Bobby baby!"
2114
01:45:47,255 --> 01:45:49,007
Bobby wins that point...
2115
01:45:49,174 --> 01:45:52,177
...as he starts his fight
to break through Billie Jean.
2116
01:45:52,510 --> 01:45:55,680
Bobby Riggs fights back
and breaks through!
2117
01:45:56,848 --> 01:45:58,016
GENE SCOTT: Whether he had
the hand cramp
2118
01:45:58,141 --> 01:45:59,350
earlier or not...
2119
01:45:59,517 --> 01:46:01,352
...what he obviously
was trying to do
2120
01:46:01,478 --> 01:46:03,688
was break up Billie Jean's
brilliant momentum.
2121
01:46:03,772 --> 01:46:05,774
ROSIE: Mmm-hmm. Great shot.
2122
01:46:06,024 --> 01:46:07,025
HOWARD COSELL:
Listen to that crowd!
2123
01:46:07,150 --> 01:46:08,276
Now cheering for Riggs.
2124
01:46:08,485 --> 01:46:09,986
ROSIE: Not bad for an old man.
2125
01:46:10,153 --> 01:46:12,197
GENE SCOTT: Bobby still has
the break, Rosie.
2126
01:46:41,476 --> 01:46:42,519
(CROWD CHEERING)
2127
01:46:42,560 --> 01:46:44,729
HOWARD COSELL: Marvelous point
won by Billie Jean!
2128
01:46:47,315 --> 01:46:48,983
I'll tell you, she's tough.
2129
01:46:49,150 --> 01:46:50,568
Walking back, she's walking
2130
01:46:50,693 --> 01:46:52,987
more like a male
than a female.
2131
01:46:57,033 --> 01:46:58,076
(CROWD CHEERING)
2132
01:46:58,159 --> 01:47:00,078
ROSIE: Out.
HOWARD COSELL: Out.
2133
01:47:00,203 --> 01:47:01,246
(CROWD CHEERING)
2134
01:47:01,329 --> 01:47:02,497
ROSIE: Double fault.
2135
01:47:06,042 --> 01:47:07,085
(CROWD CHEERING)
2136
01:47:07,168 --> 01:47:08,419
HOWARD COSELL: You're looking
2137
01:47:08,503 --> 01:47:10,338
at an apparently tired
Bobby Riggs.
2138
01:47:10,672 --> 01:47:12,257
Look at how Billie Jean King
2139
01:47:12,382 --> 01:47:14,175
has been running him
over the court.
2140
01:47:14,342 --> 01:47:16,511
And that's been
her principal tactic,
2141
01:47:16,594 --> 01:47:18,513
to wear him down.
2142
01:47:18,596 --> 01:47:20,098
(CROWD CHEERING)
2143
01:47:22,433 --> 01:47:23,434
HOWARD COSELL: Yes!
2144
01:47:24,185 --> 01:47:25,520
-Beautiful!
-ROSIE: Great shot.
2145
01:47:25,687 --> 01:47:26,688
HOWARD COSELL: And, wham,
2146
01:47:26,771 --> 01:47:28,356
that's the kind of tennis
we've had--
2147
01:47:30,108 --> 01:47:31,109
ROSIE: Right on, baby!
2148
01:47:31,192 --> 01:47:32,443
HOWARD COSELL:
She puts it away.
2149
01:47:33,361 --> 01:47:34,696
Look at that!
2150
01:47:35,613 --> 01:47:38,449
-A brilliant move!
-ROSIE: Amazing shot.
2151
01:47:39,075 --> 01:47:41,411
HOWARD COSELL:
And she is at match point.
2152
01:47:41,452 --> 01:47:43,121
(CROWD CHEERING)
2153
01:47:47,792 --> 01:47:49,711
ROSIE: I really hope
Jack Kramer is watching this
2154
01:47:49,794 --> 01:47:52,463
and will cement something
in his head...
2155
01:47:52,505 --> 01:47:55,300
...that women are not
some kind of joke.
2156
01:47:58,887 --> 01:48:02,557
HOWARD COSELL: Bobby Riggs...
fights for his whole hustle.
2157
01:48:03,308 --> 01:48:05,602
MATCH POINT
2158
01:48:30,793 --> 01:48:32,337
(CROWD CHEERING)
2159
01:48:37,091 --> 01:48:38,426
Billie Jean for President
2160
01:48:43,765 --> 01:48:45,600
BOBBY: I underestimated you.
2161
01:48:46,935 --> 01:48:49,020
(CROWD CHEERING)
2162
01:49:54,085 --> 01:49:56,671
HOWARD COSELL: It's the game
that's become a cause célèbre.
2163
01:49:56,921 --> 01:50:00,174
Equality for women.
Equal rights.
2164
01:50:00,425 --> 01:50:03,344
It was Billie Jean who fought
for equal pay for women...
2165
01:50:03,511 --> 01:50:06,431
...in the U.S. Open tennis
tournament and got it.
2166
01:50:06,764 --> 01:50:09,017
Billie Jean King
played her own game,
2167
01:50:09,100 --> 01:50:11,185
resting up,
being non-communicative...
2168
01:50:11,352 --> 01:50:13,187
...but preparing
herself mentally
2169
01:50:13,271 --> 01:50:14,856
and emotionally
and physically...
2170
01:50:15,023 --> 01:50:18,526
...for a stunning performance
against Bobby Riggs.
2171
01:50:18,693 --> 01:50:21,195
Frank Gifford wants you live
right now. Come on.
2172
01:50:21,362 --> 01:50:23,197
Frank Gifford wants to do
a live interview
2173
01:50:23,281 --> 01:50:24,615
with you. He's just over here.
2174
01:50:24,782 --> 01:50:27,201
Just in a minute. In a minute.
2175
01:50:41,299 --> 01:50:42,717
(CRYING)
2176
01:50:51,642 --> 01:50:53,895
(SNIFFLING)
2177
01:51:10,661 --> 01:51:12,789
(CHUCKLING)
2178
01:51:22,423 --> 01:51:24,175
(SOBBING)
2179
01:51:33,017 --> 01:51:35,269
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
2180
01:51:53,621 --> 01:51:54,705
(SIGHS)
2181
01:52:03,047 --> 01:52:04,215
(SNIFFLES)
2182
01:52:23,985 --> 01:52:26,571
(CROWD CHEERING IN DISTANCE)
2183
01:52:48,759 --> 01:52:50,511
-TED: Madame Superstar!
-(SIGHS)
2184
01:52:50,678 --> 01:52:52,013
(LAUGHS)
2185
01:52:52,096 --> 01:52:54,098
-Congratulations.
-Aww.
2186
01:52:55,766 --> 01:52:56,893
Now, come on.
2187
01:52:58,269 --> 01:53:00,271
The dancing can't start
without you.
2188
01:53:01,189 --> 01:53:03,191
I'm not sure I'm ready
for all this.
2189
01:53:05,359 --> 01:53:07,862
I think you may be more ready
than you know.
2190
01:53:10,948 --> 01:53:12,366
Times change.
2191
01:53:13,284 --> 01:53:15,203
You should know.
You just changed them.
2192
01:53:21,125 --> 01:53:22,293
TED: Someday...
2193
01:53:22,627 --> 01:53:25,296
...we will be free
to be who we are...
2194
01:53:25,630 --> 01:53:27,798
...and love who we love.
2195
01:53:36,474 --> 01:53:37,558
But now...
2196
01:53:38,559 --> 01:53:40,394
...time to join the dance.
2197
01:53:51,572 --> 01:53:53,157
ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen...
2198
01:53:53,241 --> 01:53:55,576
Billie Jean King!
2199
01:53:55,660 --> 01:53:57,161
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
2200
01:55:23,539 --> 01:55:25,583
(MOTIVATIONAL MUSIC PLAYING)
2201
01:55:34,175 --> 01:55:36,594
If I dare to ask it
2202
01:55:36,844 --> 01:55:39,722
Then I dare it to be true
2203
01:55:39,930 --> 01:55:42,266
If I dare to risk it
2204
01:55:42,600 --> 01:55:45,394
Then I know
that I'm willing to
2205
01:55:45,603 --> 01:55:47,938
If I dare to want this
2206
01:55:48,564 --> 01:55:51,108
To want more than I have
2207
01:55:51,192 --> 01:55:54,111
Then I dare to believe
2208
01:55:55,404 --> 01:55:59,784
I'll have it in the end
2209
01:56:08,125 --> 01:56:10,294
You climbed the mountain
2210
01:56:10,795 --> 01:56:13,631
Sent pictures of the view
2211
01:56:13,714 --> 01:56:15,966
And still can't believe when
2212
01:56:16,926 --> 01:56:19,470
I started climbing, too
2213
01:56:19,553 --> 01:56:21,722
You haven't heard that
2214
01:56:22,264 --> 01:56:25,142
I'm not afraid to fall
2215
01:56:25,226 --> 01:56:27,478
And I'm not deterred yet
2216
01:56:28,312 --> 01:56:30,898
Until I tell them all
2217
01:56:31,148 --> 01:56:33,234
I am
2218
01:56:33,943 --> 01:56:38,114
Holding out
2219
01:56:39,323 --> 01:56:43,619
For more than what I have now
2220
01:56:44,954 --> 01:56:50,000
I'm holding out
2221
01:56:53,254 --> 01:56:55,589
I don't want your pity
2222
01:56:56,006 --> 01:56:58,926
I won't use your little scraps
2223
01:56:59,009 --> 01:57:01,303
I don't build my cities
2224
01:57:02,012 --> 01:57:04,515
With what could get taken back
2225
01:57:04,640 --> 01:57:06,767
I don't need permission
2226
01:57:07,643 --> 01:57:10,146
To rise up when it hurts
2227
01:57:10,187 --> 01:57:12,106
You don't have to listen
2228
01:57:13,023 --> 01:57:16,277
But you'll hear me
Mark my words
2229
01:57:16,360 --> 01:57:18,446
I am
2230
01:57:19,155 --> 01:57:23,701
Holding out
2231
01:57:24,452 --> 01:57:29,039
For more than what I have now
2232
01:57:30,166 --> 01:57:35,212
I'm holding out
2233
01:57:38,632 --> 01:57:43,679
When the room gets dark
and I am quiet
2234
01:57:44,305 --> 01:57:49,393
There's a voice that's soft
like someone's silhouette
2235
01:57:49,643 --> 01:57:54,732
Saying don't let me go yet
2236
01:58:07,077 --> 01:58:09,371
I am
2237
01:58:10,039 --> 01:58:15,419
Holding out
2238
01:58:18,547 --> 01:58:20,674
I am
2239
01:58:21,258 --> 01:58:26,347
Holding out
2240
01:58:26,597 --> 01:58:31,101
For more than what I have now
2241
01:58:32,394 --> 01:58:37,441
I'm holding out
2242
01:58:40,736 --> 01:58:43,113
If I dare to ask it
2243
01:58:43,614 --> 01:58:46,242
I dare it to be true
2244
01:58:46,450 --> 01:58:48,744
If I dare to risk it
2245
01:58:49,286 --> 01:58:51,956
I know
that I'm willing to
2246
01:58:52,081 --> 01:58:54,458
If I dare to want this
2247
01:58:55,084 --> 01:58:57,545
To want more than I have
2248
01:58:57,628 --> 01:59:01,090
Then I dare to believe
2249
01:59:01,966 --> 01:59:06,053
I'll have it in the end
2250
01:59:08,389 --> 01:59:10,432
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)