Williams, who has written more than 100 film scores, is devoting himself to composing concert music, including a piano concerto he’s writing for Emanuel Ax.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Sound off! Trumpet is 1st bloodhound to win Westminster show
The competition drew more than 3,000 purebred dogs, ranging from Affenpinschers to Yorkshire terriers.
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Civil jury finds Bill Cosby sexually abused teenager in 1975
Jurors found that Bill Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
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Colbert says his staffers guilty of ‘first-degree puppetry’
CBS says the interviews were authorized and pre-arranged and it wasn’t clear if Capitol Police were told in advance that the employees would be in a building normally closed to visitors.
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For K-pop supergroup BTS, questions remain about its future
HYBE, the company behind the band, denied the group was taking a hiatus – a word used in a translation of the group’s emotional dinnertime video announcement last week.
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‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’: Finding sex and self-acceptance at 55
In “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime of erotic unfulfillment. Until today. As the movie opens, Nancy is arriving at a featureless hotel room to meet the sex worker she has procured for the evening – a last-ditch […]
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‘Lightyear’ stays earthbound, ‘Jurassic World’ holds No. 1 at box office
“Lightyear” disappoints with $51 million in its debut weekend in North America.
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Book review: When a librarian and her widowed mom fly to England to help run a family bookstore, they get more than they bargained for
‘Chapter and Curse,’ the first in a new mystery series from Elizabeth Penney, offers likeable characters and plausible motivations – for murder.
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Tracy Flick is back – and she’s tired of losing
Flick, the ambitious high school student from Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel ‘Election,’ is now an assistant principal in the sequel, ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win.’
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Bedside table: Two books, one soothing, one a lot less so
Book recommendations from readers.