内容摘要：“I’m not in the space where I am openly willing to disenfranchise a population who may not even understand this law as written.”

“I’m not in the space where I am openly willing to disenfranchise a population who may not even understand this law as written.”

“I’m always happy writing. That’s why I do it so much,” King says, chuckling. “I’m a very chipper guy because I get rid of all that dark stuff in the books.”Dark stuff, as King says, hasn’t been hard to come by lately. The kind of climate change disaster found in “The Life of Chuck,” King says, often dominates his anxieties.

“We’re creeping up little by little on being the one country who does not acknowledge it’s a real problem with carbon in the atmosphere,” King says. “That’s crazy. Certain right wing politicians can talk all they want about how we’re saving the world for our grandchildren. They don’t care about that. They care about money.”On social media, King has been a sometimes critic of President Donald Trump, whose second term has included battles with the arts, academia andOver the next four years, King predicts, “Culture is going to go underground.”

In “Never Flinch,” Holly Gibney is hired as a bodyguard by a women’s rights activist whose lecture tour is being plagued by mysterious acts of violence. In the afterward of the book, King includes a tribute to “supporters of women’s right to choose who have been murdered for doing their duty.” “I’m sure they’re not going to like that,” King says of right-wing critics.The original germ for “The Life of Chuck” had nothing to do with current events. One day in Boston, King noticed a drummer busking on Boylston Street. He had the vision of a businessman in a suit who, walking by, can’t resist dancing with abandon to the drummer’s beat.

King, a self-acknowledged dancer (though only in private, he notes), latched onto a story that would turn on the unpredictable nature of people, tracing the inner life of that imagined passerby. In the film, he’s played by Tom Hiddleston. Chuck first appears, oddly, on a billboard that haunts and confuses a local teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who’s struggling to get his students to care about literature or education with the possible end of the world encroaching.

Mike Flanagan, second from right, writer/director of “The Life of Chuck,” poses with cast members, from left, Annalise Basso, Tom Hiddleston and Carl Lumbly at the premiere of the film on Monday, June 2, 2025, at Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)“It is just not accurate,” Cuomo said.

Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who pulled out of the primary to instead run for a second term on an independent ballot line, did not participate in the debate.Cuomo had been considered one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars before his dramatic downfall in 2021 following a sexual harassment scandal.

The former governor has said he did not intentionally mistreat the women and had fallen out of step with what was considered appropriate workplace conduct, though his lawyers and consultants have worked to discredit his accusers. Cuomo repeated a similar refrain on Wednesday during the debate.In his comeback run for mayor, Cuomo has faced renewed scrutiny about his decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic and is