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Arts & Entertainment

Published
January 5, 2020

Tom Hanks goes from laughter to tears accepting Globe award

Elton John and Bernie Taupin win their first Golden Globe, and Awkwafina makes history with her award for lead actress in a movie comedy/musical.
Published
January 3, 2020

Ex-HBO head to make TV shows, movies for Apple’s streaming service

Richard Plepler has signed an exclusive deal to produce content for the iPhone maker's Apple TV Plus.
Published
January 2, 2020

Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers

Women directed 12, just 10.6 percent, of 2019’s top 100-grossing films – more than any year before.
Published
January 2, 2020

Ex-partner of Whitney Houston’s late daughter found dead in hotel room

Paramedics were called to Nick Gordon's hotel room in Maitland, a suburb of Orlando, early Wednesday morning.
Published
January 2, 2020

Court will decide if defacing a $120,000 banana wall was a crime or artistic expression

Roderick Webber said he’s willing to let a court of law decide whether scrawling a reference to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on the wall that once held the duct-taped banana is defacement or a political statement.

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Published
January 2, 2020

Golden Globes will serve plant-based meal at awards ceremony

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that it wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste.
Published
January 2, 2020

Filmmaker uses home movies to show life in 20th-century Maine

'Maine’s Home Movies' will air at 9 p.m. Thursday on Maine Public Television and again at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Published
January 1, 2020

T.S. Eliot’s letters to muse will be unveiled after 60 years

Students, researchers and scholars can read the correspondence at Princeton University Library starting Thursday.
Published
January 1, 2020

Howland man wins first million-dollar Powerball of 2020

Blaine Marston is expected to take home about $710,000 from his winnings after taxes.
Published
January 1, 2020

Fans upset by Kelly Marie Tran’s lack of screen time in ‘Rise of Skywalker’

Some accuse director J.J. Abrams of pandering to online trolls who infamously forced her off social media.