Life & Culture - Portland Press Herald

Slasher film ‘Halloween Kills’ gives audience exactly what it wants – and that’s it

by Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post October 24, 2021October 18, 2021

Overheard from the press seats as the lights went down before a recent screening of “Halloween Kills”: “I have no idea what to expect here. It’s just some guy with a mask and a – I don’t know. I really have no idea.” The anonymous wag’s delicious sarcasm – and yes, that was sarcasm, dripping […]

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘The Comfort in Named Things’ by Deborah Cummins

October 24, 2021October 20, 2021

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’; ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’

October 24, 2021October 20, 2021

The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Society Notebook: PROPEL honors young professionals for their pandemic pivots

by Amy Paradysz October 24, 2021October 25, 2021

In difficult times, these people and organizations have excelled.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

Peter Scolari of ‘Newhart,’ ‘Bosom Buddies,’ dies at 66

by LYNN ELBER Associated Press October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

Scolari died Friday morning in New York after fighting cancer for two years.

Arts & Entertainment

Crypto community secretly paid $4 million for Pharma Bro’s one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album

by Karu F. Daniels New York Daily News October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

Martin Shkreli, who infamously raised the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000%, purchased the album by the Staten Island hip-hop greats for $2 million at an auction.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News

Baldwin was told gun was ‘cold’ before fatal movie set shooting

by MORGAN LEE and WALTER BERRY Associated Press October 22, 2021October 23, 2021

The 63-year-old actor and producer was performing Thursday when a prop gun he fired killed his cinematographer and wounded the director on a movie set outside Santa Fe, the sheriff’s office says.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News

Actor Alec Baldwin fatally shoots movie crew member with prop firearm

by MORGAN LEE and WALTER BERRY Associated Press October 21, 2021October 22, 2021

Authorities say Halyna Hutchins, director of photography for the movie ‘Rust,’ was killed and director Joel Souza was injured by the shot on the movie set.