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Opening Sept. 29:
American Made stars Tom Cruise as
the real-life Barry Seal, a hustler and
pilot that the CIA recruited to run a
huge covert operation involving drugs
and guns in the 1980s. Lola Kirke,
26 (Girls ), has a large supporting role
as the wife of a suspicious Arkansas
sheriff. The director is Doug Liman,
52, who directed Cruise in the hit Edge
of Tomorrow (2014).
Battle of the Sexes tells the back-
story of the famous 1973 tennis match
between Billie Jean King (Emma
Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell)
that over 90 million people watched.
King was famous for fighting for wom-
en’s equality in tennis. Prize money
was long mostly given to the men, and
in larger portions, despite the fact that
women drew almost as many fans.
Riggs, 55 at the time of the match,
was a tennis champ in his youth.
He was 40 and broke when former
Detroit Tigers star Hank Greenberg,
a friend of Riggs, suggested he play
rich guys in “hustle” matches —
Riggs would give the rich guy some
edge and Riggs and his opponent
would bet on the outcome. Riggs took
Greenberg’s advice. His biggest hustle
was challenging top women players,
20 or more years younger, to a singles
match. After one star woman player
lost to Riggs, King felt she had to
play Riggs to restore the credibility of
women’s tennis.
Sarah Silverman, 46, has a large
supporting role as Gladys Heldman
(1922-2003). A talented amateur
player, Heldman worked with play-
ers, including King, to found the first
women’s pro tennis circuit in 1970.
Her daughter, Julie Heldman, now
72, was a top player in 1973. She
beat King just two weeks before King
played Riggs. A side note: King, who
lost all her endorsements overnight
when she was outed as gay, has been
in a long-term relationship with former
tennis star Ilana Kloss, 61. Kloss was
inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame in 2006.
The documentary Supergirl will be
released on Sept. 28 (DVD and on-
demand services including Amazon,
iTunes and Vudu). It centers on Naomi
Kutin,15, a Modern Orthodox New
Jersey girl. When Naomi was 9, she
was the subject of a Forward article
that explained that she was already
breaking records in her weight class
for power weightlifting. Filmmaker
Jessie Auritt read the article and then
Silverman
Kutin
Sedgwick
followed Naomi and her family for the
next five years. We see how Naomi
balanced her hard training (she’s
coached by her father, who gave her
the nickname “Supergirl”) with the
demands of her faith (no meets on
Shabbat; going to yeshivah; having
her bat mitzvah). This film was highly
praised when it played Sundance and
many other festivals.
HEBREWS IN NEW TV SHOWS
Wisdom of the Crowd is a drama that
debuts on CBS on Sunday, Oct. 1, at
8:30 p.m. Jeremy Piven, 52, stars
as Jeffrey Tanner, a visionary Silicon
Valley tech innovator who creates a
cutting-edge crowdsourcing app to
solve his daughter’s murder. Inspired
by the notion that a million minds
are better than one, Tanner develops
“Sophe” (the Greek personification of
wisdom), an online platform for pub-
licly shared information he’s certain
will find his daughter’s killer.
Ten Days in the Valley is an ABC
mystery series that begins on Oct. 1 (10
p.m.). Kyra Sedgwick, 52, stars as Jane
Sadler, a TV producer whose life gets
complicated after her young daughter
disappears in the middle of the night. •