‘I think all of the experts will definitely tie the subject matter of the films back to our current moment in a variety of ways,’ Mike Perreault, executive director of the Maine Film Center, said about the new ‘Cinema in Conversation’ series.
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Model Hadid, musician Malik welcome baby girl
She has become one of the world’s most in-demand models and he was the first to leave One Direction to strike out as a solo artist.
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Portrait by Renaissance master expected to fetch $80 million
Botticelli’s painting of a nobleman in ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel’ is the highlight of a Sotheby’s auction in New York in January.
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Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage’ sells 600,000 copies in first week
Simon & Schuster says the book will be going into its 4th printing, with total copies in print to be 1.3 million.
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Disney delays ‘Black Widow,’ Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
Ten of the studio’s top films shuffled release dates because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Metropolitan Opera to skip season, for first time in nearly 140 years
This season was to have started this week, but all 218 performances of 23 operas have been canceled.
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Anonymous donor gives $200,000 to Maine community theaters
Twenty theaters statewide will benefit from the gift, while six Maine arts organizations are receiving money from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
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Art dealer, foundation reach agreement in Robert Indiana case
The Maine Attorney General’s Office also took part in negotiating the agreement, which signals a new legal front in litigation of the rights to the artist’s work and control of his legacy.
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Children’s museum receives $500,000 gift, stays course for spring opening
The donation from Peter and Paula Lunder leaves less than $1 million of the $14 million needed to build the 30,000-square-foot Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine on Thompson’s Point in Portland.
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Ellen DeGeneres makes on-air apology, vows a ‘new chapter’
A news report published in July had claims from 36 ex-staffers who complained about or said they witnessed improper treatment.