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'Star Wars' guru George Lucas adds Daytime Emmy to his laurels

By Lee Margulies — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:30:00 PDT

This had to have been a first: A winner of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award -- an elite group whose ranks include cinema luminaries such as Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor, John Ford, Meryl Streep, Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Astaire, Steven Spielberg and Mel Brooks -- walking on stage to accept a Daytime Emmy Award.

Women of 'Mad Men' talk about Don, story rumors and the end

By Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:15:00 PDT

Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Jessica Pare and Kiernan Shipka get together with 'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner to talk about the show.

"The show is titled 'Mad Men,' but without these women, the guys would be just a bunch of desperate masturbators in great suits."

'Orphan Black': Join a live chat with Tatiana Maslany Wednesday

By Glenn Whipp — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:00 PDT

Video: Emmys 2013 Round Table | Let's get real

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:50:00 PDT

The hosts of some of the most popular reality shows on TV sat down with Times writer Yvonne Villarreal to talk Emmys and about what really goes on during production. So what did Carson Daly of ¿The Voice," Cat Deely of "So You Think You Can Dance," Jeff Probst of "Survivor" and Mark Cuban of "Shark Tank" have to say?

L.A. Film Festival: 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' captures a 'look'

By Celine Wright — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:25:00 PDT

"Ain’t Them Bodies Saints" is one of those cryptic titles that needs explaining.

Drama prize for 'Days of Our Lives' at Daytime Emmys

By Lee Margulies, Los Angeles Times — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:55:00 PDT

Other winners include 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' Heather Tom, Doug Davidson and 'The Dr. Oz Show.'

After being ignored for most of the evening, "Days of Our Lives" won the drama series prize at the 40th Daytime Emmy Awards — the first time it had been honored in that category since 1975.

L.A. Film Festival: 'My Little Pony' reels in families

By Dana Ferguson — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:06:00 PDT

The sound of laughter and children's chatter could be heard on the plaza at L.A. Live Saturday afternoon as families gathered in large white tents to partake in the Los Angeles Film Festival Family Day.

L.A. Film Festival: 'Four Dogs,' one aunt and a deeply personal tale

By Dana Ferguson — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:16:00 PDT

Oliver Cooper awoke to the sound of his director’s voice.

Emmys 2013 : A Golden Moment in Drama

By Greg Braxton — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:09:00 PDT

Television has been proudly brandishing its "Golden Era" calling card of late largely on the merits of the many top dramas being produced on prime time and cable over the last few years. It's a rise in quality such that any demarcation line between film stars and TV stars has been wiped away — film actors who may have once shunned the small screen are increasingly embracing television dramas, proclaiming that the most creative stories and interesting characters are to be found there, and TV actors, well, they know a good thing when they've got it.

'Mad Men': Megan Draper will not die, at least, not this season

By Glenn Whipp — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:31:00 PDT

Ever since up-and-coming actress Megan Draper (Jessica Pare) donned the same T-shirt that Sharon Tate wore in a 1967 photo shoot, "Mad Men" conspiracy theorists have been writing the character's obituary, believing she'll meet a tragic end along the same lines as the fate that befell the '60s sex symbol. The logic (and we use the word loosely) is that the show hasn't skimped on showing the social upheaval prevalent in 1968 New York, what with all the wailing police sirens, the riots and Peggy stabbing (albeit accidentally) her then boyfriend Abe with a makeshift bayonet .