Her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, said McCrory died at home after a ‘heroic battle with cancer.’
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Venice Film Festival honors Roberto Benigni
It will bestow its lifetime achievement award on the Oscar-winning director and actor.
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Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez have split
The couple known as J-Rod announce they are calling off their two-year engagement.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Farnsworth museum given 27 works by three generations of Wyeths
The ‘transformational’ gift comes from the family’s matriarch, Betsy Wyeth, who died last year.
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The disabled hope their Oscar moment can become a movement
Three films have the people behind them hoping their moment can move Hollywood to stop using the disabled as sources of inspiration, objects of pity, or twisted villains.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
‘The Bachelor’ star Colton Underwood comes out as gay
Underwood is a former football tight end who found fame on Season 23 of ‘The Bachelor.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business
Nielsen, networks clash over stats showing fewer viewers
It’s a reliable sign of spring: Television networks are grumbling that the Nielsen company is not accurately measuring how many people are watching their programs.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
Muslims mark Ramadan amid virus surge and new restrictions
Saudi authorities were only allowing individuals who’ve been vaccinated or recently recovered from the virus to perform taraweeh prayers at the Kaaba – Islam’s most sacred site.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez to headline vaccination concert
Anti-poverty organization Global Citizen wants to raise $22 billion to help get much-needed doses to poor countries.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Young adults run amok in the silly sci-fi thriller ‘Voyagers’
Set in the late 21st century, on a spacecraft en route to a new “Earth” – a habitable planet, 86 years distant from ours, to be colonized by the best representatives of the human race, after climate change and disease have ravaged this one – the sci-fi thriller “Voyagers” is grounded in very real current […]