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Love is merely a madness – ‘As You Like It’
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BREWER – One of the region’s most beloved summertime cultural traditions is back in action in Brewer. Or should I say – the Forest of Arden.
Ten Bucks Theatre Company is presenting its annual Shakespeare Under the Stars production. This year’s offering is the pastoral comedy “As You Like It.” The show runs July 22-25 at Brewer’s Indian Trail Park, followed by a final weekend – July 29-Aug. 1 – at Fort Knox in Prospect. All performances start at 6 p.m.; tickets are $15 and available at www.tenbuckstheatre.org.
It’s a story of palace intrigue, love, family ties and the many ways in which country life and court life differ – as well as a few in which they are very much the same.
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Christina Fontana recounts scariest moments shooting true-crime doc ‘Relentless’
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Documentary filmmaker Christina Fontana says she has devoted more than a decade of her life to a dogged pursuit of the truth in a bizarre and multi-faceted case involving a woman from Hannibal, MissDocumentary filmmaker Christina Fontana says she has devoted more than a decade of her life to a dogged pursuit of the truth in a bizarre and multi-faceted case involving a woman from Hannibal, Missouri, who disappeared in 2009. Fontana’s more than 400 hours of field investigation footage and video diaries shot over 11 years form the basis of “Relentless,” a six-part true crime series streaming on Discovery+.
“Relentless” premiered on June 27 and dropped one episode per week through July 18.
Fontana told The Maine Edge she first became aware of the case in 2010 when she met the family of Christina Whittaker, a 21-year-old who went missing in 2009 after a night of bar-hopping in her hometown. The interview was initially intended for a film project focusing on the families of the missing, Fontana said, but it became her sole focus after she peeled back the layers of the missing woman’s story and found herself in a world of drug operations and organized crime.ouri, who disappeared in 2009. Fontana’s more than 400 hours of field investigation footage and video diaries shot over 11 years form the basis of “Relentless,” a six-part true crime series streaming on Discovery+.
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Jonathan Frakes shares his love for Maine; talks PanCan.org, playing with Phish
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Jonathan Frakes is a big fan of Maine. The actor and director, best known for his role as Commander William Riker on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and his work in the ensuing franchise series and films, has been a Maine resident for years. He set me straight during my interview with him when I introduced him on radio as a “former” Maine resident.
Frakes and his wife, actress Genie Francis (“General Hospital,” “The Young and the Restless”), have actually been splitting their time between the midcoast of Maine and California for many years. Through 2012, when they weren’t filming their respective TV series and films, Francis operated a home furnishings store (The Cherished Home) while Frakes taught filmmaking. As Frakes put it during my interview with him, Maine is the best place in the world but he’d like to keep that a secret.
The primary purpose of the interview was to discuss his work with www.PanCan.org , an organization dedicated to promoting early detection of pancreatic cancer as well as new treatment approaches to the disease. Frakes has joined forces with two Star Trek alumni – Kitty Swink, and her husband, Armin Shimerman – to raise funds for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network for an ongoing fundraiser that has generated nearly $65,000 to date.
In the following interview, Frakes revealed that he recently finished directing a block of episodes for the next season of “Star Trek: Picard,” set to air on Paramount+, and he gave us the backstory of how he ended up playing trombone on an album by Phish.
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‘Summer of Soul’ a musical treasure unburied
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a music guy. For whatever reason, music had never resonated with me in the way it did so many of my otherwise like-minded peers. It wasn’t my thing. But sometimes, I’d experience something that would give me a clearer sense of that passion.
Maybe it was a song I heard at a party or at a bar. Maybe I was sitting in a theater – movie or stage. Maybe it was someone feverishly proselytizing about a band they loved that I’d never heard of. Maybe someone showed me “Stop Making Sense.” Maybe it was as simple as: “You need to hear this.”
I always cherish those moments when I have them, the gooseflesh-raising instances when music gets inside me.
“Summer of Soul” was one of those moments.
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Her name was ‘Zola,’ she was a stripper …
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You can turn just about anything into a movie.
Books and plays, sure. But also songs and TV shows and comic books. Cartoons and toys. Folk tales and urban legends. All of these things have been given the cinematic treatment over the years. Adaptation to the screen is a huge part of the movie business.
But can a Twitter thread become a movie? It can if it achieves enough viral notoriety that it becomes known as simply #TheStory.
That’s what we get with “Zola,” a film inspired by a legendary 148-tweet thread posted in 2015 by a Detroit waitress and exotic dancer named A’Ziah “Zola” King and the David Kushner story for Rolling Stone that followed. Adapted to the screen by Jeremy O. Harris and Janicza Bravo, who also directed the film, it’s a surreal and darkly comic road trip to the heart of American darkness. You know – Florida.
It is a bleak and hilarious story, one whose based-in-reality bona fides strain credulity – in a good way. There’s an intensity to the tale, charged as it is with various flavors of cultural and societal mores being prodded, bent and broken. Again, we’re talking about a film – a story – that is inherently and utterly bizarre, yet wildly compelling, a fascinating glimpse of a world many of us have never experienced for ourselves.
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