Harry accuses members of the royal family of getting ‘into bed with the devil’ to gain favorable tabloid coverage.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘M3gan’ slays box office while ‘Avatar’ stays No. 1
The Blumhouse evil-doll horror film got off to a killer start.
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Prince Harry’s new memoir draws anger, protests in Afghanistan
He claims in his new memoir that he killed 25 people while posted with British forces in the country.
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Russell Banks, praised author of ‘Cloudsplitter,’ dies at 82
Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York. Banks was being treated for cancer, his editor, Dan Halpern said.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel
Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.
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Poet Richard Blanco pulls from his own Miami-to-Maine story for first play
Blanco, best known as the poet for Barack Obama’s second inauguration, teamed up with fellow Cuban American writer Vanessa Garcia on ‘Sweet Goats and Blueberry Senoritas,’ a play commissioned by Portland Stage, where it premieres this month.
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Lifetime turns Zumba prostitution scandal into made-for-TV movie
‘Let’s Get Physical’ doesn’t specifically name Alexis Wright, who went to jail in 2013 for running a prostitution ring from her Kennebunk fitness studio, but the setting and story are extremely similar.
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West Coast design firm chosen for Portland Museum of Art expansion
Lever Architecture, based in Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, was chosen ahead of three other finalists to design a new building on the site of the former Children’s Museum that will be integrated into the museum’s existing campus overlooking Congress Square.
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Multiple wounded near rapper French Montana video shoot
The Miami Herald cited a law enforcement source saying as many as 10 people were wounded in the shooting outside The Licking, a soul food restaurant in Miami Gardens.
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Jeremy Renner was ‘completely crushed’ by snowplow, according to 911 call log
Record of an emergency call placed Sunday at 8:55 a.m. Pacific Time states that the Marvel actor was ‘run over’ by the vehicle.