They’re back and nobody cares. That’s the opinion of a stocking full of critics (58% on Rotten Tomatoes) and the public (30% audience). That has to hurt. As my review reaches your eyes, you and everyone on your viewing block knows that there are now only three of the upper class, rich, well-preserved ladies of […]
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News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘The Apartment’ is gonna make your New Year’s Eve
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s (That magic team who gave us “Some Like It Hot”) great, immortal love story begins with a wide shot of C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) appearing as one of what appears to be 300 other corporate lemmings, sitting at 300 desks, punching out numbers on 300 tabulators. It ends with an […]
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Backyard Naturalist: Year-end thoughts on climate change
This month’s highly irregular weather is a symptom of the fact that global warming is real and spelling trouble, Dana Wilde writes.
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On the Edge: What it’s all about
Searching local neighborhoods for crèches, J.P. Devine ponders the reason for the season as his search leads him to look at the faces human beings suffering and in need of mercy.
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Rich Abrahamson: One man’s push to downsize helps Hartland woman expand her Christmas spirit
The Morning Sentinel’s Rich Abrahamson needed to unload his collection of Christmas blow molds, and Danielle Gould was happy to take them since it meant she could grow her own collection and continue to spread Christmas cheer.
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‘The Tender Bar’ coming-of-age drama with street comedy relief
In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir, directed with a loving hand by George Clooney, it seems clear that Ben Affleck may no longer have to hyphenate his name with Matt Damon. Methinks that’s over now. His role as the owner and tender of a Staten Island bar called “Dickens” may well be Ben’s […]
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‘The Bishop’s Wife’ a forbidden love story
“The Bishop’s Wife” (released Feb. 16, 1948), one of the prominent contenders for best Christmas movie of the century and certainly a film studded with three of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time, is clearly a a forbidden love story. Hold on to your string of pearls. Egad! You mean the story of how […]
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Backyard Naturalist: Earliest sunset before shortest day
Understanding the Earth’s orbit and spinning around the sun can be tricky, illustrating how appearances may well not be reality, Dana Wilde writes.