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    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 —

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