Word: pomeranc
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...that he is now a third person in a new world: the semifictional, wholly romantic hero of a movie docudrama. He is other people's idea of Josh: a child again, as imagined by writer-director Steve Zaillian and played, with a nice, otherworldly seriousness, by chess whiz Max Pomeranc, 8. Yet for Josh's mother, who learned chess from her small son and now teaches it at two schools, the dislocation is familiar. "As a work of art," says Bonnie Waitzkin, "this story has been our reality for nine years. Fred wrote it, I edited it, Josh lived...
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