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The jeans. The flannel shirt. The silvery mutton chops peeking out from beneath a weather-beaten train engineer’s cap. Neil Young had dressed perfectly for the part of Neil Young on Monday night at the Hollywood Bowl, and he’d brought just the right songs too, among them “Harvest Moon,” “Ohio,” “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,”…

‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘The Conjuring’ appear to occupy the opposite ends of the franchise universe. But were they really so different after all?

“The Pitt” may not be set in Los Angeles, but its cast and creatives are proud that it’s filmed there. HBO Max’s hour-by-hour look at an emergency room shift in a Pittsburgh hospital took home the Emmy Award for best drama series on Sunday, and its cast and creatives dedicated their recognition to healthcare workers….

Sunday’s Emmy Awards had the usual mix of light-hearted moments and powerful speeches, along with some surprise wins in the acting categories. So if there’s one thing we should always remember about television’s biggest night, it’s this: What might seem predictable sometimes isn’t and that’s what makes this awards show worth watching. Here, Times writers…

There were two questions the 77th Emmy Awards, held Sunday night at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, had to answer, other than who would win what. (It’s an honor just to be nominated.) One was how the show, a glittery evening devoted to the most popular of popular arts, would play against a…

Television’s biggest night is here and with it comes some of the best red carpet fashion of awards season. This year’s Emmy-nominated stars include the always stylish Kristen Bell (“Nobody Wants This”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”), Keri Russell (“The Diplomat”), Carrie Coon (“The White Lotus”), Cate Blanchett (“Disclaimer”) and Michelle Williams…

Beyoncé already has one Emmy in her trophy case. “Beyoncé Bowl,” the pop star’s “Cowboy Carter“-themed NFL halftime performance, could get one more during the prime-time telecast. The special earned Beyoncé her first-ever Emmy in August for costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality programming, which she shared with designers Shiona Turini, Erica Rice, Molly Peters,…

The cultural legacy of the 1984 rock-mock-doc “This Is Spinal Tap” is of sufficient amplitude that, to give the band’s guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) his knob-twiddling due, it’s gone way past 11. Perennially quotable, ad-libbed to Brit-accented perfection by co-creators Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and finessed into an iconic spoof by director…

In “Am I Roxie?,” a world premiere one-woman-show at the Geffen Playhouse, Roxana Ortega, a working actress and alum of the Groundlings Theatre’s Sunday Company, revisits the period in her life when she was the caregiver for her mother, whose memory was unraveling. When Ortega’s father died of a sudden heart attack outside the post…

Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Friday elected “The Lord of the Rings” actor Sean Astin to be its national president as one of Hollywood’s most powerful labor unions faces new challenges in a changing film and TV industry. Astin, known for portraying Frodo’s loyal hobbit friend, Samwise Gamgee, in the…