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(l-r.) Harry Hadden-Paton stars as Bertie Pelham, Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith, Tuppence Middleton as Lucy Smith and Allen Leech as Tom Branson in DOWNTON ABBEY: A New Era, a Focus Features release.

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‘Downton Abbey’ box office results signal a promising turn among older audiences

‘Downton Abbey’ lost out to ‘Doctor Strange’ at the box office this weekend. But it was still a big win for older-skewing movies in the pandemic era.

Los Angeles, CA: May 11, 2022: Ellen DeGeneres is seen in a photograph made with kaleidoscopes and screens from 2016. The orignal caption states: Feb. 11, 2016 file photo, host Ellen DeGeneres appears during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," in Burbank, Calif. DeGeneres voices the character of Dory in the Disney Pixar animated feature, "Finding Dory." CREDIT: Devin Oktar Yalkin / For The Times; source photo: Associated Press)

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How Ellen DeGeneres won, and then lost, a generation of viewers

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A child star at 7, in prison at 22. Then she vanished. What happened to Lora Lee Michel?

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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ explained: Hot dog hands, empathy challenges and meaning in the absurd

FILE - Bruce Willis attends a movie premiere in New York on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. A brain disorder that leads to problems with speaking, reading and writing has sidelined Willis and drawn attention to aphasia, a little-known condition that has many possible causes. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

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Concerns about Bruce Willis’ declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years

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Jimmy Kimmel ‘is such a positive person’ that he tested positive for COVID-19 again

Comedians John Mulaney and Andy Samberg have will guest host ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ while Kimmel continues to recover from COVID-19.

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Vaccinated but anti-vaccine, Eric Clapton tests positive for COVID-19

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How does Disneyland rate a year after its COVID-era reopening?

PASADENA , CA - MARCH 13: Details inside the Pasadena Playhouse during a rehearsal of Holland Taylor's upcoming show, Ann, on Sunday, March 13, 2022 in Pasadena , CA. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

‘We’re driving straight up the cliff’: Theater is back, but recovery proves perilous

Jimmy Kimmel mines his COVID-19 recovery for a Trump joke: ‘I drank so much bleach’

Hollywood’s COVID safety measures aren’t going away anytime soon. Here’s why

Masks are off, COVID rates are up and musicians are once again on edge about touring

Meet the couple behind Artists Who Code, a group helping artists switch careers to tech

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Myles Frost in 'MJ' at Broadway's Neil Simon Theater

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Can you separate the art from the artist? ‘MJ’ puts it to the test

With Broadway’s Michael Jackson musical, we face the question again of whether we can separate the artist from the art.

MEXICO CITY - May 11, 2022 - Dominican rapper Tokischa films a video for her new song with Natanael Cano. (Lisette Poole / For The Times) A feature on Tokischa, the raunchy, feminist Dominican rapper? She's on Rosalia's new album, has collaborated with J Balvin, and is putting out a song with Nathanael Cano. She's in Mexico City filming a video for the Cano song, and her manager has invited us along. She's been blowing up lately - she's all about centering female pleasure in these traditionally misogynistic dembow and reggaeton spaces - and seems like a blast to hang with and write about.

‘The more they ban me, the more people want me’: Tokischa’s hardcore rap draws fans, and critics

HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 12: The team prepares onstage at the Hollywood Bowl for morning rehearsal with Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel at The Hollywood Bowl as the sleeping venue is rousing after 18 months of pandemic-induced hibernation. A behind-the-scenes look at what it takes, reveals a Los Angeles Philharmonic rehearsal, buzzing like never before. Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 in Hollywood, CA. ({a} / Los Angeles Times).

The Hollywood Bowl at 100: Tell us your favorite memories of the iconic venue

A slideshow features a scene from “Hamlet,” a staging of Verdi’s “Aida” and a performer on stilts dressed as a butterfly

Six picks for your L.A. weekend: ‘Hamlet,’ Verdi’s ‘Aida,’ a bug fair and more

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 18: Karla Mosley stars in "The Most Beautiful Home…Maybe" at REDCAT Theater. Photographed on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

The housing crisis takes the stage at REDCAT’s ‘The Most Beautiful Home ... Maybe’

Review: The environmental impact of composers Ellen Reid and Gabriela Ortiz, indoors and out

Commentary: Hollywood helped build the cult of the perfect green lawn into a disaster genre

This weekend, look up to the heavens: A kite ‘gallery in the sky’ will fly over L.A.

For the love of apartment signs! (A tribute to the most overlooked letters in L.A.)

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