When you live long enough, J.P. Devine writes, your pockets are full of Christmas stories like the shoe fund for actors who only have sneakers.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Reporting Aside: Woman’s plight an example of psychiatric health care crisis in Maine
A clinical psychologist who’s treating a psychotic, suicidal woman with leukemia stuck for weeks in a hospital emergency department says the state must expand existing psychiatric resources or build new, Amy Calder writes.
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‘A Castle for Christmas’ something to brighten your tree
Oh my goodness and golly gee, June Allyson and Van Johnson are back, and just in time to save your Christmas Eve. Of course, it’s not really June Allyson and Van Johnson, who made six movies together, because they’re both on the “other side” in Hollywood Heaven watching over us. But if they were here, […]
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‘Don’t Look Up’ full of biggest stars, best talents
We meet Kate Dibiasky, a brilliant semi-nerdy astronomy grad student who spends her days looking up into space. One day, she accidentally spots a planet-killing comet the size of Russia, making a beeline for Earth. Oh sure, It’s Lisa Kudrow finally breaking out into a … Wait. That’s not Lisa Kudrow in a for-sure Lisa […]
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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ — the best of Christmas movies
Frank Capra’s great film released in 1946, at its heart, a love story. It’s about family and the way we overcome disasters and hardships. It’s about hiding from love, until one night, love finds you. OK, any argument here? You’ve seen it one trillion times, and every time you see it, you see something new. […]
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Thinking Things Through: Marathon reading, with a new purpose
Now retired as a librarian, Liz Soares finds herself leaving behind “professional reading” all the time in favor of books solely for her own pleasure and curiosity.
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On the Edge: The Tinsel
Recalling how his brother Kermit loved tinsel, J.P. Devine hears whispers of the past.
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Reporting Aside: Yes, there’s much that first must be done, but then let’s savor the holiday season
There are cards to write, cookies to bake and presents to wrap, but then the stress seems to fall away and we’re embraced by the joy of the Christmas season, Amy Calder writes.
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‘Curtiz’ reminds reviewer that watching the making of anything is usually boring
In Netflix’s black and white Hungarian film “Curtiz” we are introduced to one of Hollywood’s most notorious film makers of the past- Micheal Curtiz (played here by Ferenc Lengyel). Curtiz was a Hungarian refugee who acted and directed myriad films in his native country after WWI, and then fled Europe in 1926 to come to […]