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Story: Billie Jean King Story
Summary: This story reviews the highlights of Billie Jean King's career in tennis and and social activism. But King was a popular culture icon who was larger than sports. Women and many minorities who suffered discrimination are still very aware of the contribution she made. And people who admired athletics and activism hold her in very high esteem and like to talk about her. But sometimes you can turn from a conversation about her to a conversation about the participants and how her work impacted many, many Americans.
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Billie Jean King today
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Regarded by many in the sport as one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time, King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.
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West Side Story was an acclaimed and popular Broadway musical about an ill-fated and impossible love between Tony and Maria. This story is about a recording of the Broadway score in 1984, 25 years later. Bernstein records the songs with a new generation of performing artists, renown singers who learned to act in the opera rather than Broadway actors who learned to sing in the theater. It's a remarkable documentary that captures the dynamic between the maestro and these superstars.
Perhaps because Bernstein is conducting his own piece as an old man, music that he composed many years earlier as a much younger man, you can talk about aging in this context. What does it mean to return to a work from your youth?
