Don’t look back. Maybe that’s one lesson to be drawn from TV in the year past. At least, nostalgia didn’t exactly pay off for the networks. ABC’s Kennedy- era drama “ Pan Am” hasn’t soared in the ratings, and even with all the bunnies, NBC’s short-lived “The Playboy Club” was clearly missing a lucky rabbit’s […]

Emotions run high in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” the boldest cinematic tackling of Sept. 11 yet. It’s a project fraught with obvious peril, with pitfalls of sentimentality, exploitation or, simply, audience reluctance. The source material, Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 book, is far from normal Hollywood stuff. One of the first novels to take up […]

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 25- year- old woman with no future. I am the youngest of three daughters. My parents are divorced and my sisters are both married. Mom has no income of her own, so it’s mainly me. I have come to realize that I’ll never be able to have an apartment of my […]

Bambi, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), a disturbing psychological thriller about the cannibalistic serial killer Lecter, and “Forrest […]

DAMARISCOTTA — The Lincoln Theater will present a New Year’s Day screening of “The Magic Flute” through The Metropolitan Opera’s “ The MET: Live in HD” series. The opera, presented in an abridged version and sung in English, is designed to appeal to families with children. Tickets cost $10. “The Magic Flute” will play at […]

ROCKPORT — The Midcoast Community Chorus will perform a concert titled “Simple Gifts” at 4 p.m. Jan. 15 in the Strom Auditorium at Camden Hills Regional High School. Mimi Bornstein directs the 130-member community chorus. Sean Fleming provides musical accompaniment. The Midcoast Community Children’s Chorus also is scheduled to perform. Tickets cost $15 and can […]