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Pony-tailed Teen-Ager Chris Evert became an instant favorite with the gallery when she arrived at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Forest Hills, N.Y., five months ago. But many experts doubted that she was ready for the stiff world-class competition she would meet in center court. Unseeded and playing on grass for one of the few times in her brief career, "Little Miss Cool" nonetheless battled her way into the semifinals, winning one gutsy, come-from-behind victory after another. Then, alas, she met Mrs. Billie Jean King, the reigning queen of U.S. tennis. Billie Jean...
...Women's International at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., her first tournament since the U.S. Open, Little Miss Cool was hotter than ever. In a stunning upset, she blasted Billie Jean off the court. A fixture on the clay courts of Fort Lauderdale since she was six, Chris Evert was always slight and something of a hitless wonder. Her backhand was so weak that her tennis-pro father, Jim Evert, taught her to hit the shot with both hands. Though she goes far toward making up in precision what she lacks in power, her pitter-patter serves and lack...
...Hill is so fundamentally wrong in its orientation that one forgets the acting. In fairness to the cast, they play their misconceived roles well; Thommy Berggren as Joe and Evert Anderson as Blackie, the hobo, are especially successful in entertaining while filling out Widerberg's obscure motivations. Still, nothing could save this movie from the apathetic response it deserves. A film about such repression should move one to anger and tears; Joe Hill moves not at all. Hill said "Don't mourn for me," but Bo Widerberg slobbers all over his memory. It is dishonest biography and a worse film...
...Little Chrissy Evert!" The words still ring in the mind. Why was she "little Chrissy Evert"? Why not "swift Chrissy Evert" or "agile Chrissy Evert...
...news world sought to deny Chris Evert's skill by emphasizing her feminity over her ability. Evert may soon find herself forced to deny herself her womanly charms in order to prove her athletic ability to her image of the male chauvinist society...