I dialed into “So Help Me Todd” because I like Marcia Gay Harden, and it was bedtime and I needed a laugh to sleep better. I didn’t get the laugh, but I slept better. The show is third rate and the rest of the cast is beneath working with her. Harden is no Cate Blanchett […]
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the edge: A shot for flag and country
J.P. Devine recalls hearing war stories from a grizzled old Marine before deciding to join the Air Force and chart his own course as a veteran whose beat still goes on.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: With housing out of reach, woman asks, ‘Just let me prove myself’
The rental assistance Beth Gordon was receiving was pulled a few weeks ago and she now lives in a pop-up camper in Fairfield with her two children, but she remains determined to find the opportunity that will bring a better path.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: The amazing power of habit
Daily walking and writing habits have brought many benefits, Liz Soares writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘The Manchurian Candidate’ a must-see classic
“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known.” “Manchurian Candidate.” In honoring the late, great Angelia Lansbury, the multi-talented actor who left us this month, Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville, is offering on Nov. 6 “The Manchurian Candidate,” John Michael Frankenheimer’s 1962 political thriller. In Frankenheimer’s film, with screenplay […]
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the edge: A ghost story
A tale from decades ago about a kiss and a slap on a rainy Halloween night in New York has J.P. Devine musing about mystery and paranoia.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Who needs Halloween when we have the nightly news?
People used to watch horror movies to get frightened, but now all they need do is watch national news broadcasts, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: The beautiful, reviled shag
Cormorants vibrate some living thread between here and boyhood as they fish local waters, Dana Wilde writes.