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Jennifer Tilly wanted to be ‘a big movie star.’ A life in Hollywood changed that

The Los Angeles Times 01 Nov 2021

At the moment, she has enough to focus on with Tiffany’s TV debut and her second career as a professional poker player, which began when she met her professional-poker-playing boyfriend Phil Laak in the early aughts ... “You know how there’s a grandmaster in chess? I wanted to be a ...

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Games business continues expansion with two new studio openings in UK and Greece

The Business Desk 20 Oct 2021

Phil Gaskell ... This growing team will help strengthen Ripstone as it embarks on exciting new games development and work-for-hire projects, continuing the success the studio has enjoyed with recent titles like Poker Club, Chess Ultra and Pure Pool. Creative director and co-founder, Phil Gaskell, said.

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Woody Harrelson in bar punch-up with aggressive fan

Castanet 08 Oct 2021

Guests attend gala event celebrating the opening of the World Chess Championships. Photo. Phil Lewis/WENN.com. Woody Harrelson has let his fists fly after a fan reportedly assaulted him at a rooftop bar in Washington D.C. on Wednesday (06Oct21) night ... Washington D.C ... president Richard Nixon ....

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Netflix responds to lawsuit from female chess champion over The Queen’s Gambit portrayal

Metro UK 17 Sep 2021

Netflix is being sued for $5million (£3.6m) by female chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili due to claims her achievements were played down and her nationality was incorrectly portrayed ... Anya’s character becomes a chess prodigy during the show, set in the 60s (Picture. Phil Bray/Netflix).

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Chess: Russia capture Olympiad gold, edging weakened US team 7-5

The Observer 17 Sep 2021

These four countries are in a class apart, the superpowers of world chess. USA v Russia/Soviet Union is a chess pairing with historic resonance dating right back to 1945, when the USSR team led by Mikhail Botvinnik scored a crushing 15.5-4.5 win against a US team which had won four successive Olympiads in the 1930s ... Phil Wang ... Chess.

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Chess: Garry Kasparov surges into St Louis lead with three wins in a row

The Observer 10 Sep 2021

This week’s format in the $150,000 Champions Showdown is Chess 9LX, also known as Fischer Random and Chess 960, where the back rank pieces start at random squares and the time limit is 15 minutes for the game plus per move increments, so that the clock plays a lesser role and opening knowledge is irrelevant. Chess ... Phil Wang.

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‘I wouldn’t take my kids to this’: Star Wars’ Phil Tippett on his hellish animation ...

The Guardian 20 Aug 2021

The leading visual effects designer, whose credits include Star Wars and Jurassic Park, has spent three decades directing his gruesome animated fable You definitely know Phil Tippett’s work even if you don’t know his name. The 3D chess game in Star Wars, the ...

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‘I wouldn’t take my kids to this’: Star Wars’ Phil Tippett on his hellish animation Mad God

The Observer 20 Aug 2021

You definitely know Phil Tippett’s work even if you don’t know his name. The 3D chess game in Star Wars, the AT-ATs and Tauntauns in Empire Strikes Back, ED-209 in Robocop, the bugs from Starship Troopers and the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park are just some of the creations Tippett has brought to life ... Phil Tippett.

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Chess: Carlsen knocked out of World Cup semi as Poland’s Duda emerges

The Observer 06 Aug 2021

This week, the chess-playing Duda did still better as he defeated Sergey Karjakin, the 2016 title challenger, in the World Cup final ... Lockdown reawakened my childhood love of chess ... Phil Wang ... Chess ... chess, especially since the Covid-19 cases at the start were absent in later rounds.

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PBS doc traces how Chicago changed Buddy Guy, and how Buddy Guy changed the world

Chicago Sun-Times 26 Jul 2021

Buddy Guy performs at the University of Chicago in 1966. Raeburn Flerlage/Chicago History Museum ... Just as long as he could play the blues ... Guy hooked up with the legendary Chess Records, but brothers Phil and Leonard Chess wanted Guy to tone down his louder-than-loud sound and be more of a session player than a front man ... ....

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Kangaroos are not for shoes | Opinion

NJ dot com 12 Jun 2021

By Raymond J. Lesniak. Every year, more than 2 million kangaroos are slaughtered to make shoes. That’s right, more than 2 million shoes! Nike profits while kangaroos die ... New Zealand protects kiwi birds ... The U.S ... Phil Knight, as chairman emeritus, is the knight on Nike’s corporate chess board ... At the top of the Nike chess board is the board of directors ... .

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Bernie Marsden announces new solo album Kings, his first since 2014

Guitar.com 10 Jun 2021

READ MORE. The Collection ... The upcoming second album in the Inspirations series, Chess, pays tribute to the artist found on Chess Records, a blues/rhythm and blues label founded by Leonard and Phil Chess ... Kings’ and Chess’ release, alongside Marsden’s new paperback Where’s My Guitar, will be supported by a UK tour in September ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... ....

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The remarkable journey of Aleks Zinchenko, Manchester City’s unlikeliest superstar

Yahoo Daily News 29 May 2021

Read full article ... In fact, it soon could be ... Football’s ‘chess grandmasters’ meet in Champions League final. Phil Foden vs Mason Mount ... Phil Robinson, City’s head of emerging talent, visited to watch Zinchenko play first-hand and set about the process of bringing him to Manchester ... Champions League final will be a chess game decided by big players ... .

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Scot’s gambit to get kids into chess

The Times/The Sunday Times 27 Mar 2021

Chess is “an entire world in just 64 squares”, says Beth Harmon, the doe-eyed prodigy in The Queen’s Gambit ... PHIL BRAY/NETFLIX/AP ... Chess.

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10 of the most binge-worthy TV shows based on books

Gulf News 05 Mar 2021

1 of 10. Firefly Lane ... Image Credit. COURTESY OF NETFLIX. 2 of 10. The Haunting of Hill House ... Image Credit. Netflix. 3 of 10 ... 4 of 10 ... Chess playing gets taken to a dramatic new level in this series starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel, the series sees a chess prodigy grapple with a troubled childhood and addiction ... Phil Bray/Netflix. .