Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    Mary McNamara: So many lives would be different if we'd had 'The Queen's Gambit' 50 years ago. Including mine

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Nov 23, 2020 7 minutes

    The Netflix chess epic "The Queen's Gambit" has entered the stage of cultural ascendency in which people choose via Buzzfeed quiz or personal inclination which character "you are." Sexy Benny ("Love Actually's" Thomas Brodie-Sangster), the chess cowboy who thinks for five minutes or so that he is better than prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy)? Loyal Harry ("Harry Potter's" Harry Melling), who realizes early on that he isn't even close and loves Beth anyway? Or super cool Jolene (newcomer Moses Ingram), the fellow orphan turned law student/civil rights activist who needs to have a series of her own?

    I'll tell you who I am. I'm the girl who lost to Beth in the first round at the local tournament and then gave her a Kotex pad in the ladies room.

    Yup, I'm Kotex girl.

    Actually, the character has a name, Annette Packer (Eloise Webb), and she shows up again a few episodes later to deliver a short but pivotal speech about how important it was to have been beaten by Beth because it proved that girls could do great things. It's the 1960s — as evidenced by Beth's Cleopatra eyeliner and kicky hat —

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times3 min readCrime & Violence
    Carvalho Faults Alleged Actions Of School Safety Worker Who Failed To Stop Fatal Fight
    LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school district has removed a campus-safety contractor from Washington Preparatory High School after an adult — who apparently worked for the contractor — refused to intervene before a fight that ended with the death of
    Los Angeles Times8 min read
    Beyond Erewhon: Inside The LA Grocery Store Where All The Cool Vegans Are Flocking
    LOS ANGELES -- On a rainy Saturday afternoon in late March, a block of East Hollywood is unusually quiet but for the corner of Fountain Avenue and North Edgemont Street. There, a line snakes halfway around the perimeter of a little vegan grocery stor
    Los Angeles Times3 min read
    Commentary: USC’s ‘Security Risk’ Rationale To Thwart Peaceful Protest Is Not Justified
    During Vietnam War protests, the Nixon administration called them “outside agitators.” Now my university’s provost prefers “participants — many of whom do not appear to be affiliated with USC.” Beyond Andrew Guzman’s misdemeanor of wordiness, the pla

    Related