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PEOPLE/ARTS Thursday 5 OcTOber 2017
Billie Jean King says she’s upset

with women who voted Trump

By JOCELYN NOVECK was being honored by the in the headlines in recent
AP National Writer Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics weeks, promoting “Battle
NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis Foundation, which pro- of the Sexes.” The film, in
icon Billie Jean King is not vides gymnastics programs addition to chronicling the
mincing words about the to underserved communi- match that drew up to 90
many white women who ties. million TV viewers, depicts
voted for Donald Trump, “I’m really upset with wom- King’s budding secret re-
saying they “really don’t en, actually,” King said. lationship with Marilyn Bar-
like themselves.” “I’m upset with the white nett, while she was married
King, who led the fight for women that voted for Mr. to then-husband Larry King.
equal pay for women in Trump. I think they really (Barnett later outed King in
tennis, also says she feels don’t like themselves ... I an unsuccessful palimony
there is more misogyny now think a lot of women don’t suit, causing the tennis star In this Sept. 9, 2017 photo, actress Emma Stone, left, and Billie
than when she defeated like themselves.” She add- to lose thousands of dollars Jean King pose for photos after a news conference discussing
the upcoming film “Battle of the Sexes’” in New York.
Bobby Riggs in the famous ed: “Girls are brought up in endorsements.) Associated Press
“Battle of the Sexes” match to be perfect and boys are King, who has since be-
in 1973, the subject of the brought up to be brave. come an activist for LGBT als and the Gen Z to see son be more comfortable
new movie starring Emma Well, a girl can never be rights, also harshly criticized this movie, because every in their own skin, if it helps a
Stone and Steve Carell. perfect. So we never can Trump’s proposed ban on generation has to fight for parent to understand bet-
“I think there’s a lot of mi- win.” transgender people serv- freedom and equality,” she ter about their own child or
sogyny — I think it’s higher In November, 53 percent ing in the military, and ex- said. “Every single genera- a relative or a friend and if
now than it was,” King said of white women voted for pressed the hope that the tion. It never ends and you that helps give some com-
in an interview Tuesday Trump over Hillary Clinton, movie inspires activism in a always keep starting over fort or be more comfort-
evening at a Manhattan exit polls showed. new generation. with every generation ... able as well, then that’s
awards ceremony. She King, 73, has been back “I really want the millenni- And if this helps one per- what I want from this.”q
Review: ‘Fire Road’ adds napalm girl’s voice to famous photo

By JENNIFER KAY Throughout “Fire Road,” of the flavors of her child- interrupting her studies and
In many ways, Kim Phuc has she explains how she came hood in Southeast Asia: her threatening to confine her
never left Route 1 in Viet- to see her life instead as a mother’s noodle soups, the until she defected to Can-
nam, the highway where journey toward faith and guavas and bananas she ada.
Associated Press photogra- peace. plucked ripe off the trees Still, Phuc doesn’t dwell
pher Nick Ut captured her Phuc’s survival and the er- outside her family’s home. on the war, its aftermath
running on June 8, 1972. rant bombing of civilians in Equally rich are the details or her efforts to physically
It’s one of the most enduring her village outside Saigon of how war appeared to a distance herself from her
images of the 20th century, by the South Vietnamese child: Sandal prints on the government minders. Her
highlighted again in Ken military have been com- ground, where Viet Cong focus in “Fire Road” is her
Burns and Lynn Novick’s 18- prehensively explored by had crossed their proper- conversion to Christianity,
hour series, “The Vietnam journalists in the decades ty during the night. Bright finding a savior with scars
War,” that aired on PBS last since the war, and in De- purple-and-gold smoke she could relate to, and
month. Phuc runs naked to- nise Chong’s 1999 book, that marked bombing tar- her persistence in persuad-
ward Ut’s camera, her arms “The Girl in the Picture,” gets. The deceptively soft ing her husband and family
flung away from her body. that detailed the war from whump-whump sound of to join her religious journey.
The 9-year-old is scream- the Vietnamese perspec- napalm canisters hitting Phuc writes in the same This cover image released by
ing, “Too hot! Too hot!” be- tive. the ground. soothing tone she has Tyndale Momentum shows,
cause of the napalm sear- “Fire Road,” written with Napalm sticks to its victims when she speaks in pub- “Fire Road: The Napalm Girl’s
ing her back and left arm. Ashley Wiersma, completes like jelly, burning through lic as a UNESCO goodwill Journey through the Horrors of
War to Faith, Forgiveness, and
For most of her life, Phuc the picture by adding layers of skin and muscle. ambassador. Even though Peace,” by Kim Phuc Phan Thi.
writes in a new memoir, Phuc’s own voice to the Phuc writes that the Viet- well-intentioned journalists Associated Press
she tried to run away from story. namese government’s use and doctors may not have
that moment when she The book makes a reader of her story for propagan- helped her move on entire- she has found a balm to
became the Napalm Girl. hungry with descriptions da stuck as painfully to her, ly from her wartime trauma, ease her pains.q
German woman says Polanski sexually assaulted her in 1972

By JAMEY KEATEN ern city of St. Gallen. She yet spoken with him about the time. This summer, she accusations of sexual mis-
Associated Press said Polanski had raped them. asked a judge to drop the conduct by Polanski over
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss au- her at his house in Gstaad, The AP does not typically 40-year-old case against the years.Police spokes-
thorities said Wednesday a well-known Alpine resort name people who say they Polanski, who can only trav- man Florian Schneider said
that a German woman has town, in February 1972, ac- are victims of sexual assault, el between France, Switzer- it was unclear why Langer
filed a complaint alleging cording to police and the but Langer spoke publicly land and his native Poland. had filed the complaint in
Oscar-winning director Ro- regional state prosecutor’s in a New York Times inter- Langer told the Times she St. Gallen because Gstaad
man Polanski sexually as- office. view published this week. waited to report the allega- is under the judicial juris-
saulted her 45 years ago French lawyer Herve Polanski, 84, has been a tion largely out of concern diction of the Bern region
in a Swiss resort town while Temime, who represents fugitive since fleeing to for her parents. Her father to the southwest. Polanski
she was in her mid-teens. Polanski, told The Associ- France in 1978 after plead- died this past summer and owns a chalet in Gstaad
Renate Langer, 61, filed the ated Press that he plans ing guilty to having unlaw- her mother two years ago. and spent time there fight-
complaint last week in a to discuss the allegations ful sex with a minor in Cali- Her complaint brings to ing possible extradition
police station in the north- with his client, but hasn’t fornia. His victim was 13 at four the number of public from 2009 to 2010.q