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

by TALI ARBEL Associated Press January 3, 2020January 3, 2020

Richard Plepler has signed an exclusive deal to produce content for the iPhone maker’s Apple TV Plus.

Animals, Local & State, News, Outdoors

State biologists to capture and collar 130 moose in research effort

by Dennis Hoey January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

It’s the centerpiece of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s six-year moose survival study.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

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

by JAKE COYLE Associated Press January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

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

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

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

by MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

Paramedics were called to Nick Gordon’s hotel room in Maitland, a suburb of Orlando, early Wednesday morning.

Arts & Entertainment

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

by David Ovalle and Charles Rabin Miami Herald January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

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.

Arts & Entertainment

Golden Globes will serve plant-based meal at awards ceremony

by JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

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

Arts & Entertainment, News

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

by Edward D. Murphy January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

‘Maine’s Home Movies’ will air at 9 p.m. Thursday on Maine Public Television and again at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine

J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Little Women’ popcorn for the ages

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

Most film critics claim Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 Technicolor production as the very best, but modern reviewers take umbrage at that claim and have given Greta Gerwig’s 2019 offering a big hug.