February 24th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: Streaming,
Executive Producer of
The Queen’s Gambit, William Horberg was in conversation with film critic Luke Buckmaster last week as part of the Screen Forever conference.
Amongst the questions he was asked, “How do you make chess come alive on screen?”
“Well, I am going to push back and say, I don’t think it is really about chess,” Horberg said.
“It is about this character, a very, very unique character, Beth Harmon that Walter Tevis created. She is a genius, she is a nerd, she is sexy, she is a killer, she is shy. She was just so fascinating and embodied so many contradictions.
By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Mayor Eric Garcetti and county Supervisor Holly Mitchell today joined two city councilmen who represent the South Los Angeles area to urge constituents distrustful of the COVID-19 vaccine to get inoculated.
Mitchell said that while the Black community has reason to be distrustful of health care systems and medical professionals in the U.S. citing the 1932 Tuskegee Experiment and the use of Henrietta Lacks cells without her consent or that of her family she told people it was safe to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I don t want people to use those past horrific experiences where we were taken advantage of and abused as a reason to not step up in this moment in history where we are experiencing unprecedented public health crisis, Mitchell said.