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Fancy Nail Art Games for Girls – Cute Manicure Decoration Ideas and Beauty Salon Free

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Hey girls! Get the best beauty game for you and enjoy being the best manicurist in the world....

Apache SIM HD

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Enjoy a fully featured combat flight simulator and join +1.500.000 players of the most realistic...

The Secret of Grisly Manor

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Free today with ‘App of the Day’. **Anyone encountering a black screen with this update - sorry...

Jungle Heat

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Jungle Heat is a free cross-platform war game, which you can play on any device or social network. ...

Extreme Off-Road Truck Driver 3D: Legendary Trucker Game

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Travel the most dangerous roads of world hill range to become a real truck driver. Play Offroad...

Lenard (726 KP) rated Battle of the Sexes (2016) in Movies

Oct 16, 2017

Battle of the Sexes (2016)

2016 | Biography, Comedy, Sport

7.9

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In 1973, gender inequity was a major issue. The patriachy did not see women as equals and refuse to compensate them at the same rate. Billie Jean King had just won the US Open Championship and had registered the same share as the men's champion. The USLTA however wanted her to appear in a tournament at 12.5 cents on the dollar. She rebeled and along with several other popular female players started a rival tennis organization which eventually found a sponsor in Virginia Slims. At the same time, inveterate gambler and Senior Circuit player Bobby Riggs was facing his own crisis. Watching Billie Jean King on TV one night, Bobby gets an idea to stage a battle of male chauvinist pig versus feminist. Billie Jean does not want to take part in the sideshow. When Margaret Court becomes the #1-ranked woman on the Women's Tour, she takes the challenge. However, she does not have the game to match wits with Bobby and is defeated badly. Billie Jean torn between getting the tour solvent and her love life agrees to a rematch. The final event would be seen by 90 million people with a huge spectacle. Billie Jean used her more cerebral-based game to defeat the piggish Riggs and show the world that women could compete with men.

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David McK (3547 KP) rated The Running Man in Books

Jan 28, 2019

First and foremost, if you think this is anything like the Arnie movie, think again! That movie only shares the title, a few names, and the idea of a game show with the book.

Written by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), this is set in a future dystopia where the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened even further, to the extent that, while the rich have access to new gadgets, medicine and groceries, life is a daily struggle to survive for the poor (who are now treated as vermin by the rich).

The top TV shows are all game shows (OK: like the movie); in all the poor are more-or-less tortured (the shows have names like 'Swimming with Crocidiles' or 'Treadmill to Fortune') to earn money. Of these, the most popular by far is 'The Running Man', which is - basically - a televised manhunt.

This is a pretty quick read - only took me about one day - with the Ben Richards of the novel far more sickly and wasted than the muscular Arnie of the film (Steve Buscemi, perhaps?), with the novel also covering a wider area of land than the Running Man set of that movie (which, remember, is only set in four zones - here, it's more-or-less right across America). The ending is also far more downbeat!