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March 30, 2014

Movie Review: Anderson uses every arrow in his directorial quiver in ‘Hotel’

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is writer-director Wes Anderson’s first full-on action picture, replete with gunfights, high-speed chases, great escapes and cliffhangers. Because it’s made by Anderson, though, the movie still pays meticulous care to stacks of bow-tied pink boxes of macaroons, the impossibly deep purple-blue of a concierge’s jacket and rat-tat-tat dialogue that flies so […]
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March 30, 2014

Movie Review: Jason Bateman has nothing but good to say about ‘Bad Words’

Although he started acting when he was 11 on “Little House on the Prairie,” Jason Bateman found time to enter one spelling bee when he was a kid. He didn’t make it past the first round when he left the “w” out of “answer.” “Spell check is a great friend,” Bateman says of his spelling […]
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March 30, 2014

Book Reviews: Two takes on the myths about alcohol and writers

'The Trip to Echo Spring' and 'The Splendid Things We Planned' insightfully explore similarities among addicted artists.
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March 30, 2014

Movie Review: ‘Noah’ gives the Old Testament a state-of-the-art Hollywood treatment

21st-century effects help make Darren Aronofsky’s film an action/adventure take on The Flood.
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March 30, 2014

Extraordinary surrealist photography on view at Bowdoin

‘Under the Surface’ features several luminaries of the movement, including Man Ray, Max Ernst and André Breton.

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March 30, 2014

Signings, Etc.

Milena Banks
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March 30, 2014

Classical Beat: Boy sopranos lend voices to images of purity for brief time

Like Benjamin Wenzelberg, young male singers face changes in their beautiful musical instruments.
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March 30, 2014

Audience Calendar

• Art Annette Kearney, “Let There Be Light,” fused glass freestanding sculptures and 3D collaged paintings, through Monday. Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath. markings-gallery.com. Andrew Wyeth, “Temperas and Watercolors,” through April 30. Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. farnsworthmuseum.org. “The Wonderful World of Oz,” exhibition drawn from the world’s most comprehensive collection of […]
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March 23, 2014

Book Review: Robert Chute’s ‘Excuse for Being Here’ celebrates life and Thoreau

Poet-scientist makes entertaining connections.
Published
March 23, 2014

Televison: HBO’s ‘Paycheck to Paycheck’

How one working mom manages to scrape by.

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