He won the best actor Academy Award for ‘Lilies of the Field’ in 1964.
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Music: 2021 was a good year for Morgan Wallen, Adele – and vinyl
Vinyl sales surpassed CDs as the most-sold physical format for the first time since MRC Data started measuring music sales in 1991.
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Peter Bogdanovich, director of ‘The Last Picture Show,’ dead at 82
Considered part of a generation of young ‘New Hollywood’ directors, Bogdanovich was heralded as an auteur from the start, with the chilling lone shooter film ‘Targets’ and soon after ‘The Last Picture Show.’
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Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
Local singer-songwriter Jud Caswell performs in Brunswick on Saturday and proceeds benefit Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program and the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
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‘Being the Ricardos’ not very exciting, but yours to judge
It’s not that I didn’t “Love Lucy,” I didn’t know Lucy. I never saw the show when it began. The show debuted in 1951, and was a big hit and ran until 1957. I wasn’t watching television in those days. I went from Air Force basic training in the Texas desert to Korea/Japan, with no […]
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‘The Food That Built America’ explores the foods we grew up with in a new light
Way back in 2019, before COVID fell on us, we were all going to the movies, and no one was sitting home locked away from viruses in the streets very few Americans were streaming their televisions desperate for something different. Meanwhile, while Notre Dame Cathedral was burning down, Brexit upended British politics, the 20-year war […]
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Omicron forces Sundance Film Festival to go virtual
Last year’s film festival, a mostly online event, reached the largest audience in the festival’s history.
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Grammy Awards postponed due to omicron variant
The postponement marks the second year in a row that the Grammys have been delayed because of COVID-19.
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Singer-songwriter Amy Helm talks about her latest album
EDITOR’S NOTE: The concerts mentioned in this column have been postponed due to the rise in numbers of those with the coronavirus, and will be rescheduled for a later date. Please go to snowpond.org or stonemountainartscenter.com for complete details. As I’ve frequently stated, I love chatting with folks for the first time and my recent interview […]
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David Bowie’s music catalog sold to Warner
He released more than 400 songs before he died in 2016.