Bounces

Bounces

At the Challengers, More Middling Than Movie Magic

A trip to Charlottesville shows Hollywood changed little about life on the middle rungs of the tennis ladder.

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Ben Rothenberg
Nov 01, 2024
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Reporting on the road for Bounces for the first time…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — There’s a decades-old phenomenon of cinetourism: being featured on the silver screen is a great way to put an obscure place on the map of public consciousness, drawing the masses to flock to the scenery they’ve seen on screen in person.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1975) made Kh…

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