In the morning, before the sound of the Hollywood Boulevard, a woman contacted security guards, with wine street. “But who is that?” “Give a star. Billy Jean King.” “Ahh well,” Passerby replied. “So it’s deserving.” The concept is widespread. The myth of tennis, the winner of 39 Grand Slams, the woman who achieved equality in her sport and sport, Risk of his career when leaving the room in the eighties, the most attractive and global recognition: a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Friends, family, tennis and actors, King, 81, could not deny his happiness for uncovering his star, one of them stepped up several times as a child. The guide in everythingIt is also a pioneer: the first woman to receive a star in the Sports Entertainment section, created by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce a few years ago, he operates the famous Rose and Gold Stars walk.
King thanked Hollywood with some help to get up with sneakers and sometimes on stage. “Sport entertainment and sport entertainment,” he said. “Hollywood is important to respect women in the sports world,” he said. Just minutes after the star received, King explained the reason for the importance of the import of El Pace. “Hollywood has a worldwide range so that it has immense importance; I always think in the world,” he said, bringing a certain craze too. “Not only that, I came from this area, I came from the Long Beach in California, below the road,” he joked to the city’s southern Los Angeles and the largest sea port in the United States, where he was born. “We come to see all the stars and walk along the walk,” he said. “But I never thought that I had a star on the Hollywood walk of glory. I looked at everyone, saying ‘Oh, Minderes’, but I am glad that they have athletes, men and women now. I know that I am the first woman, but I hope not to be last.
At the ceremony of Star No. 2,708, King was on Monday afternoon, Gossip Ileana Close, but also for most women in Gild: Rosie Casals, Cony Spooner, Stacey Alster and Maria Sharapova. Former Balescentist Magic Johnson and actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who made the speakers to showcase and sending tradition, was also attended.
Johnson and King’s courts share a passion for the sport that has spread beyond their stage: both the main baseball team of the city, the shareholders of the Dodgers. They are partners and friends. Johnson praised her, “She is great, not only a player, but a person.” “This is a flag bearer in the fight for salary equality. All the girls who won millions today They should thank you, ”he said. You have always fought for the right thing, in social struggles, against racism, and inclusion. “
In addition to its many professional achievements – the number one in the world is the number one, its 20 Wimbledon titles, the creation of the WTA, the Association of Women Tennisists, Your name for important trophies. The Presidential Medal of Liberty Part of Barack Obama – Speakers have highlighted their related cooperation from the Speaker of their Sports Wins. Jamie Lee emphasizes the importance of Curtis King’s heritage. “Heritage understands that they say that they are telling you, but, and I quote it, ‘The works we do are defining ourselves’, and the works of Billy Jean King are powerful: in the track, public struggle, freedom.”
“He has risked almost everything, but not everything,” he remembers Jamie Lee Curtis At the end of the seventies, when she married her first husband, Larry, her secretary was open, blackmailing her with Sue and made her homosexuality and disappeared. Curtis remembers the phrase of a king, where she said: “When they took me out of the room, I lost my financial support and I thought it was the end of my career. But I started to live a standard life and open the doors to me and spent millions of standard lives.” The authentic and precious life of the Hollywood script.
