I scrolled endlessly through Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBOMax and all the myriad offerings on my living room screen and prepared to go to bed. Then I saw Bill Pullman, (“Independence Day,” “The Sinner”) one of my favorite actors, stable, not a headliner, who eschews car chases as a rule, but is a trained actor. Here […]
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Reveling in the sunshine of a new day
A return of warmer temperatures has Liz Soares also reflecting on the joy of getting out and seeing people, and doing so in a safe way.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: The Easter Bunny cometh
A lot of scary things are going on right now, so J.P. Devine is thinking of colored eggs, bonnets and baskets and chocolate bunnies.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Dana Wilde: Snow buntings in winter
Brightening up our winter fields, the white-feathered birds have interesting migration patterns tied to colder climate, Dana Wilde writes.
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’Slow Horses’ the sort of fun the British do so well, and the gang of swells is here doing it
The impressible John le Carre gave us a host of spies in his famous novels. Always my favorite would be Alec Leamas from “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” who said, “What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists […]
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: Face in the crowd
On TV, “extras” are those faces in crowds and at parties, cafes and street scenes, with no lines, who now have been upgraded with more dignified titles like “junior artists,” “atmospheres” and “background talent,” J.P. Devine writes.
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‘The Gilded Age’ was a great era
So here it is today on HBO, in our own era of social upheaval. No fan of costumed events, I reluctantly sat through every episode of Julian Fellowes’s, Michael Engler’s and Salli Richardson-Whitfields’s lavish and expensive production, in order to have a review for you this morning. I won’t run down each chapter because Fellowes’ […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Liz Soares: Learning to do what’s right for me
In the aftermath of knee replacement surgery, Liz Soares contemplates what it means to take care of her own needs during a time of recovery.