Word: chess
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...whole time. All my crying was off camera. After Rob would cut the scene, I'd have to go to the side to let it out." She credits Marshall with guiding the actors into a true ensemble. "He is very much like Mameha," she says. "He is playing a chess game. He knows all the moves and the countermoves. He planned it all out. I used to say to him, 'You're like silk and steel.' He has a very tough interior. But a director has to be that...
...movies are filmed primarily at a former airplane factory 20 miles outside London. Inside Leavesden Studios, as it's called, is a dreamlike mishmash of Harry Potter's past: bits and pieces of the Whomping Willow, signs from the stores in Diagon Alley, the smashed-up remains of giant chess pieces from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Honestly, is this any place to raise a child...
...four is the icing on the social space cake: Design. Kayden’s team has planned two design initiatives to help attract visitors to under-utilized spaces. One plan would revamp Currier House’s shuttle stop, adding heated benches, a Tether Ball court, an over-sized chess board, a coffee machine, and building blocks chairs. Kayden hopes the extra comforts will transform the shuttle stop from a cold, unwelcoming stop-over into a fun place to hang out. The second plan is on a much larger scale. A completely transparent glass building could be built...
...good historical films come out of India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...example, Dingman remembers that, when he was working on assigning entryways, one student asked to have roommates who were chess players. “We though that would be nice, but then they wouldn’t leave their room and there wouldn’t be any expansion,” said Dingman. “We put him on the first floor and put other chess players higher up in the same entryway...