Three films have the people behind them hoping their moment can move Hollywood to stop using the disabled as sources of inspiration, objects of pity, or twisted villains.
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Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘The Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood comes out as gay
Underwood is a former football tight end who found fame on Season 23 of ‘The Bachelor.’
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Nielsen, networks clash over stats showing fewer viewers
It’s a reliable sign of spring: Television networks are grumbling that the Nielsen company is not accurately measuring how many people are watching their programs.
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Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez to headline vaccination concert
Anti-poverty organization Global Citizen wants to raise $22 billion to help get much-needed doses to poor countries.
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Luke Bryan tests positive for COVID, sidelined from ‘American Idol’
Paula Abdul will be the judge’s temporary replacement.
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Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning – twice
The star-studded event will be held Sept. 13 this year, and held next year in its usual slot of the first Monday in May.
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Bowdoin music festival will resume this summer for students
But performances likely will not have live audiences and instead will be livestreamed from the Brunswick campus.
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‘Sopranos’ actor Joseph Siravo, a Broadway veteran, dies at 66
Siravo was best known for playing mobster Tony Soprano’s father in flashbacks on the hit HBO drama.
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Take a garden stroll to the sound of music at Thompson’s Point
Classical Uprising returns with a sound installation and a plea for mindfulness.
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‘Nomadland’ wins 4 BAFTAs including best picture, director
The film stars Frances McDormand as a middle-aged woman who travels the American West while living out of her van and picking up short-term work.