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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Comedian Tom Smothers, one-half of the Smothers Brothers, dies at 86
The brothers constantly battled with CBS’s censors and occasionally outraged viewers as well with its daring sketches and irreverent jokes.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2023
Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and Rushmore DeNooyer, of Lone Wolf Media in South Portland, made the new documentary "The War on Disco," airing Monday on PBS.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2023
‘Viewer beware:’ Auburn native Conor Welch is an executive producer of new ‘Goosebumps’ TV series
Welch was an avid reader of the tween book series as a kid, and 30 years later, he helped craft a fresh take on the popular franchise.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2023
‘Frasier’ returns to TV, but you don’t need to be a superfan of the original to laugh at its jokes
After two decades, Dr. Frasier Crane returns in a new sitcom, “Frasier,” set to debut Thursday on Paramount+.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2023
Boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore on ‘M-A-S-H’ sell at auction for $125,000 that will go to charity
The money raised from the auction will go to the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York.
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PublishedApril 24, 2023
CNN, Don Lemon part ways weeks after Nikki Haley comments
The 'CNN This Morning' co-host said on Twitter that the news came as a surprise to him and characterized it as a firing, which CNN disputed.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2023
Maine Voices: What constitutes news depends on where you get the news
I decided to take media analysis into my own hands and was discouraged by what I found.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2022
Clarence Gilyard, ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Matlock’ actor, dies at 66
Gilyard began his career in the 1980s with roles on several popular TV shows.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2022
Ken Burns on his latest PBS documentary, ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’
Burns: 'The willingness of people to believe the lies of an evil regime and manipulative leaders – demagogues – isn’t something that’s a one-off.'
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2022
Review: Ken Burns’ new documentary spotlights how little the U.S. did to stop the Holocaust
'The U.S. and the Holocaust' shows that Americans fell far short of their ideals in their treatment of Jews threatened with imminent murder in Europe. And the film suggests that the past is not past.
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