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...Semite, and fugitive from the U.S. justice system?might not sound like Mr. Right. But to hear Miyoko Watai tell it, he's a dreamboat. Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo last week, Watai gushed: "I think of Bobby as a king and I would like to become queen." The 59-year-old acting head of the Japan Chess Association said turbulent circumstances had forced her to reveal what she had previously preferred to keep private?that she and Fischer have been living together in Tokyo for the past four years. And now, she says, they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King's Gambit | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...week she described herself as just a "pawn" in the process. But in chess, she added, it is possible for the lowly pawn to become the most powerful piece on the board?which gives her hope that she may one day get her wish of becoming Bobby Fischer's queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King's Gambit | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...Burroughs. Both Burroughs and Crane and Naifeh give readers of any sexual variety the excitement of grungy, x-rated kicks while leaving them to ponder larger things like the nature of sexual attraction and self-identity. The book ends in a back alley as Catherine and her drag queen pals snort coke. In an epiphany she concludes, "There is only finding joy where you can, with whom you can," a line to live by no matter where you hang your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1 BR; Rats; Near Downtown -- $2,400 | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...DIED. FAY WRAY, 96, "scream queen" and star of more than 100 movies, including Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March; in New York City. Despite her lengthy r?sum?, the sultry Wray is mostly remembered for her legendary role as Ann Darrow in King Kong?and for the scene in which she is carried to the top of the Empire State Building in the beast's fist. At the film's premiere she commented, "I wasn't too impressed. I thought there was too much screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...October's Taxi, a remake of a French film, lead-foot cabbie QUEEN LATIFAH will help green cop JIMMY FALLON solve a series of bank robberies. Just how much do you tip hip-hop royalty, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatched To Hollywood | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

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