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Tribeca Film Fest: Review of "Queen to Play"!

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In a world where a chess game is equivalent to a night of steamy passion, you have to be a little skeptical. In Caroline Bottaro's first feature, chess is played up to the extreme, turning the game into an excruciatingly obvious motif throughout the film.

Set in the ever-scenic French Riviera, Queen to Play tells the story of a maid, Hélene (Sandrine Bonnaire), who becomes obsessed with the idea of learning chess—and soon does, with the help of her...

Chess on film - the history of chess in movies!

Chess on Film By Dylan Loeb McClain

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As one of the oldest and most ubiquitous of games, chess has appeared in movies almost since people started making them. While there have been some movies where the game played a central role, even advancing the plot, the game is usually a bit player.

When chess appears in films or on television, it often gives the actors something to do while they talk, and the subtext seems to be that their characters must be intelligent if they...

Chess on Film!

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May 22, 2009, 6:57 pm Chess on Film By Dylan Loeb McClain

As one of the oldest and most ubiquitous of games, chess has appeared in movies almost since people started making them. While there have been some movies where the game played a central role, even advancing the plot, the game is usually a bit player.

When chess...

[From: Matt Fullerty] Why are we still reading Dickens?

Matt Fullerty spotted this on the guardian.co.uk site and thought you should see it.

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Why are we still reading Dickens?

The great Victorian is probably even more ubiquitous now than he was in his lifetime. How he remains such vital reading is an intriguing question

Jon Michael Varese
Friday September 4 2009
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Driven to kill - law to change for women who kill violent husbands!

Julie Bindel
Friday June 26 2009
The Guardian
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During her relationship with her husband, Malcolm, Sara Thornton endured repeated beatings. She sought help from numerous agencies, called the police repeatedly and her husband was eventually charged with assault. But he died before his court appearance. As he lay drunk on the sofa one night in June 1989, she stabbed him to death. The following year she was convicted of murder and given a life sentence by a judge who said she could have simply "wa...

[From: Matt Fullerty] Driven to kill

Matt Fullerty spotted this on the guardian.co.uk site and thought you should see it.

To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/26/women-kill-violent-partners-law

Driven to kill

For 20 years campaigners have argued that women who kill violent partners are treated unfairly in the courts. As the law looks set to change, Julie Bindel reports on the cases of three women who snapped

Julie Bindel
Friday June 26 2009
The...

The Ten Commandments of Blogging

Published in Pimp My Novel: September 3, 2009
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1. I am thy blog. If you're an author, you should already have a blog. If you're not yet published, now is the time to start.

2. Thou shalt have no other blogs before me. We all love reading blogs—we wouldn't be here if we didn't—but yours comes first. Write your own posts before you spend all afternoon reading someone else's.

3. Thou shalt not make of thyself an idol. Keep your ego in check; you always want to portray yourself positively in your b...

Alice Hoffman Goes Ballistic on Twitter!

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Why'd He Do It? Post-Mortem of a Grisly Death

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Books of The Times: Why'd He Do It? Post-Mortem of a Grisly Death
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A sickening account of a murder and suicide that riveted post-Katrina New Orleans.
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Zackery Bowen appears on the cover of "Shake the Devil Off" as a lanky, handsome guy in a baseball cap, sitting in the French Quarter of New Orleans and staring at the camera with the insouciance of an off-duty movie star. In one hand he holds a wine glass. In the other hand he holds a kitten.

No word on whether t

Paul Morphy, Chess Player, World Champion!

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