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'Sexist' line in 'The Queen's Gambit' courts trouble for Netflix, streamer must face defamation lawsuit
2 years, 11 months ago

'Sexist' line in 'The Queen's Gambit' courts trouble for Netflix, streamer must face defamation lawsuit

India TV News  

A judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Georgian chess master who alleged that she was defamed in an episode of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'. She took issue with a line in the series in which a character stated "falsely" that Gaprindashvili had "never faced men", reports variety.com. "Netflix does not cite, and the …

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Anya Taylor-Joy looks incredible as she poses for new striking photoshoot with ELLE
3 years, 8 months ago

Anya Taylor-Joy looks incredible as she poses for new striking photoshoot with ELLE

Daily Mail  

Anya Taylor-Joy looked incredible as she posed for a new striking photoshoot as part of ELLE's May 2021 Rising Stars issue. Gorgeous: Anya Taylor-Joy looked incredible in a plunging white mini dress and pink tulle creation for an ELLE fashion shoot after teasing a Queen's Gambit sequel Wow: The beauty looked incredible in a striking a striking pink ruffled tulle …

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Column: So many lives would be different if we’d had ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ 50 years ago. Including mine
4 years, 1 month ago

Column: So many lives would be different if we’d had ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ 50 years ago. Including mine

LA Times  

The Netflix chess epic “The Queen’s Gambit” has entered the stage of cultural ascendency in which people choose via Buzzfeed quiz or personal inclination which character “you are.” Sexy Benny, the chess cowboy who thinks for five minutes or so that he is better than prodigy Beth Harmon? It’s impossible to overstate the effect Fischer had on American chess — …

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How Queen's Gambit's Anya Taylor-Joy is now tipped for wider stardom
4 years, 1 month ago

How Queen's Gambit's Anya Taylor-Joy is now tipped for wider stardom

Daily Mail  

With her mesmerising stare and perfect features, she has become the breakout star of Lockdown 2. There is no doubt she’s going to be a massive star’ Anya Taylor as Beth Harmon in the Queen's Gambit Anya Taylor-Joy attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala 2018 in New York, USA As well as serious themes, the seven-part …

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Why everyone is checking out the show that made chess sexy!
4 years, 2 months ago

Why everyone is checking out the show that made chess sexy!

Daily Mail  

Chess is not the sexiest of subjects. But thanks to a mesmerising performance by British actress Anya Taylor-Joy, and a riveting book by American author Walter Tevis, the chess drama The Queen's Gambit has become the surprise boxset binge of the second lockdown. Checkmate: Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit THE PLOT AND ITS OPENING …

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’The Queen’s Gambit’ is an impressive opening in chess storytelling
4 years, 2 months ago

’The Queen’s Gambit’ is an impressive opening in chess storytelling

Live Mint  

Salman Rushdie’s 2017 novel, The Golden House, features a chapter where the author describes the Queen’s Gambit as a rare Queen sacrifice in chess used, amongst other Grandmasters, by Bobby Fischer in his famous “Game of the Century” against Donald Byrne. Movies involving chess have often featured erroneously set boards and positions that make no sense, when they haven’t indulged …

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’The Queen’s Gambit’ is an impressive opening in chess storytelling
4 years, 2 months ago

’The Queen’s Gambit’ is an impressive opening in chess storytelling

Live Mint  

Salman Rushdie’s 2017 novel, The Golden House, features a chapter where the author describes the Queen’s Gambit as a rare Queen sacrifice in chess used, amongst other Grandmasters, by Bobby Fischer in his famous “Game of the Century” against Donald Byrne. Movies involving chess have often featured erroneously set boards and positions that make no sense, when they haven’t indulged …

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