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...Dolores" has potential. The film is based on Stephen King's novel about a middle aged Downeast Maine housekeeper (Kathy Bates) who is suspected of committing two murders. Dolores was investigated for killing her husband Joe (David Strathairn) twenty years ago, and is now under suspicion in the recent death of Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt), her long-time employer. Detective John Mackey (Christopher Plummer), who investigated Joe's death but couldn't pin it on her, returns to investigate the death of Vera. He is determined to nail Dolores for it. The film departs from the book when Dolores' daughter...
Lemann remembered Fickett as the "ideal of the New England schoolmarm" personality, with her "downeast" appearance and voice. Even in the hot summer, Lemann said, she would go into the business office "in her schoolmarm clothes," open the sliding wooden window and "not let anything phase...
Sparsely scattered throughout the fields and woods of this Downeast region are the rural communities for which Route 1 is Main Street. Cherryfield, Columbia Falls, Jonesboro, Machias--all are homes to an average of several hundred inhabitants who use the road to drive to the fields during the day, and perhaps to Machias in the evening to see a movie or eat at Helen's Restaurant...
...women of Washington county have a lot to say and they're glad that a Congressman is willing to listen. Their comments--ranging from the rising cost of living to the Watergate scandal--are tempered by a Downeast twang and a certain rural flavor that would be described by some as "conservative," but viewed by the citizens themselves as merely "down-to-earth...
...Crimson's opponent Saturday night will be Cornell, whose 4-2 record places it second behind Princeton's perfect 5-0 mark. The Big Red came from behind to edge Harvard 68-62 on Jan. 14, but lost to the Crimson in the third place game of the Downeast Classic in December...