With his handsome looks and tender manner, the actor was able to combine toughness with an appealing, vulnerable quality that made him one of France’s memorable leading men.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Deep Water: ‘Virga,’ by Kathleen Ellis
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Photographers find compelling subjects at Windham horse refuge
More than two dozen were invited to the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals’ farm over the past year to take photos for a fundraising auction next month.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘Maine, A Love Story’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Women’s sculpture collective debuts work in Wells
‘Life Forms’ – the name of the show and of the group of artists itself – formed a year ago and is embarking on plans for several shows.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Portland Museum of Art’s Summer Party is straight-up good time
Museum supporters mingled in the sculpture garden, enjoying refreshments and each other.
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Mainer’s new book touts ‘solutionary’ thinking
Zoe Weil’s ‘The Solutionary Way’ trains people to solve problems in a way that provides ‘the most good and least harm for people, animals, and the environment.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
The more he understands, the more an Air Force linguist wrestles with his mission
In ‘What the Taliban Told Me,’ Ian Fritz recounts what led him to war in Afghanistan, and how it changed him.
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A grieving woman bonds with a bird in this gorgeously strange novel
‘The Axeman’s Carnival,’ by Catherine Chidgey, is a darkly comic tale of a woman’s relationship with a magpie.
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‘Shoot me up with a big one’: A timeline of the last days of Matthew Perry
Most of the ‘Friends’ star’s final days were spent in the throes of an addiction to the surgical anesthetic ketamine.