Though a pick no longer ensures blockbuster sales, it retains a special status within the industry.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Mainer who won Oscar recovering from urgent surgery after ceremony
Eric Saindon left a Los Angeles hospital Sunday, fighting pain, to attend the Academy Awards and pick up his first Oscar, for visual effects in the movie ‘Avatar: The Way of Water.’
Rolly Crump, Disney designer who helped define the look of Disneyland, dies at 93
Animator-turned-theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died Sunday in his Carlsbad home, where he had been in hospice care, said his son Christopher. Crump was 93. Crump received his big break at the Walt Disney Co. in 1952, when he was 22. Those at the animation studio […]
Imprisoned Russian leader Navalny learns that documentary about him wins Oscar
The documentary portrays Alexei Navalny’s career of fighting official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020, his 5-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, where he was immediately arrested at the airport.
Steve Martin and Martin Short coming to Merrill in November
Tickets go on sale Friday morning.
‘Everything’ wins best picture, is everywhere at Oscars
The movie’s eccentric tale about a Chinese immigrant family blended science fiction and alternate realities in the story of an ordinary woman and laundromat owner.
Book review: In ‘Sugaring Off,’ a traumatized teen finds strength in family and the woods
Maine author Gillian French set the young adult novel in New Hampshire.
In a first since 1961, the Oscars carpet will not be red
It also be will be covered, to protect the stars and cameras from the weather and to help turn the arrivals into an evening event.
Maine native up for visual effects Oscar
Eric Saindon, who grew up in Gorham, has been nominated twice before. This year, he’s nominated for his work on ‘Avatar: The Way of Water.’
Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife’s killing, dies at 89
Blake, star of the 1970s TV show, ‘Baretta,’ had once hoped for a comeback, but never recovered from the ordeal.