“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known.” “Manchurian Candidate.” In honoring the late, great Angelia Lansbury, the multi-talented actor who left us this month, Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville, is offering on Nov. 6 “The Manchurian Candidate,” John Michael Frankenheimer’s 1962 political thriller. In Frankenheimer’s film, with screenplay […]
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On the edge: A ghost story
A tale from decades ago about a kiss and a slap on a rainy Halloween night in New York has J.P. Devine musing about mystery and paranoia.
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On the Edge: Where are the statues?
Waterville is looking more and more like a bustling city, but it’s lacking statues of iconic local personalities, J.P. Devine writes.
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‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy’ season 3 kicks off in Calabria
Tucci is back. Our beloved Stanley Tucci, beautifully dressed and tanned, is back on CNN in season 3 of his tours of his native Italy, and we’re happy to see him eating again. So far we’ve watched one of our favorite actors prowling the streets of, (let me check my notes, and there are pages […]
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On the Edge: Coffee in a cardboard cup
Pondering his relationship with coffee, J.P. Devine recalls the changing faces of those who serve and are now known as baristas.
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Shocking secrets revealed in ‘Lou’
You remember Allison Janney, of course, you do.
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‘Flora and Son’ simply about love and music
John Carney, Irish to his toes, has no Marvel heroes, capes or swords, rescued damsels, car chases or shoot-outs in his bag of tricks. His “Flora and Son” is as fresh and bright as newly washed clothes hanging on a line in the sun, with a cast of sparkling actors: Eve Hewson (Flora), Joseph Gordon-Levitt […]
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On the Edge: Anniversary waltz
After 61 years of marriage, J.P. and Kay Devine venture out to the new restaurant in downtown for a risky ride with a sweet payoff.
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Love blooms in ‘Suite Française.’ J.P. Devine writes
Despite the millions of stories about World War II, new ones, some recently discovered, keep popping up. “Suite Française,” directed by Saul Dibb (“Journey’s End,” 2017) is based on the late Irène Némirovsky’s novel about the German occupation of the small, village of Bussy, which by this time, 1942, had its hands full of fleeing […]
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On the Edge: And clean underwear …
No one wants to die ‘on the street,’ but if that happens you’ll want to be wearing a clean pair of underwear, J.P. Devine writes.