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Arts & Entertainment
Arts, entertainment and books news from the Sun Journal.
Becoming Museum L-A executive director like a homecoming for Rachel Ferrante
The NYC native and Bates College graduate wants to make the museum a hub of activity for Lewiston and Auburn.
Christina Applegate announces she has multiple sclerosis
The actress shared her diagnosis on Twitter late Monday.
Arrest made in hit-and-run death of ‘Gone Girl’ actor Lisa Banes
Police say they built the case on video showing Banes in a crosswalk in Manhattan when she was hit by the scooter after its rider ran a red light.
Romance fiction award withdrawn for controversial novel
Karen Witemeyer’s ‘At Love’s Command’ focuses on a veteran who participated in the 1890 massacre of Lakota Indians at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
Meghan McCain makes low-key exit from ‘The View’
ABC has not said who will replace her in the show’s ‘conservative’ chair.
Trey Parker, Matt Stone sign $900 million deal ensuring 14 ‘South Park’ movies
Two of the movies are promised in 2021.
Maine’s new poet laureate is a small-town librarian who’s written 2 books of poems
Julia Bouwsma is a farmer and director of the Webster Library in Kingfield, and teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Rihanna is a billionaire now, but not because of her music
At 33, with $1.7 billion, she is the wealthiest female musical artist in the world, and the second-richest woman in entertainment after Oprah.
Dolly Parton invested royalties from Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Black community
Fueling the investment was the multimillion-dollar payday she earned from Houston’s cover of one of Parton’s most successful songwriting credits.