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Child star in the making
Harold Dow dies at 62; decorated CBS newsman helped shape '48 Hours'
The Sunday Conversation: John Slattery
L.A.'s string of indie labels succeeds with a jack-of-all-trades approach
Neil Patrick Harris thanks The Times for his Emmy win
Arrivals: Creative Arts Emmy Awards
'Mesrine': Public enemy, not a hero
Indie Focus: What's seen and unseen in 'The Last Exorcism'
It's a weightier Vincent Cassel in 'Mesrine'
And the winners of the Creative Arts Emmys are...

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 02:53 PM PDT

'The Switch's' Thomas Robinson is among several youths this summer joining a group that's had a bumpy history in Hollywood. 'We're kind of just rolling with it,' says mom Rachel Robinson.

"I want to go home," Thomas Robinson said as he climbed into his mother's arms, wrapped his tiny body around her torso and nuzzled his head against her neck.

Harold Dow dies at 62; decorated CBS newsman helped shape '48 Hours'

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 09:12 PM PDT

The five-time Emmy winner had exclusive interviews with Patty Hearst after her kidnapping and O.J. Simpson after his wife's killing, and narrowly escaped one of the falling twin towers on 9/11.

The five-time Emmy winner had exclusive interviews with Patty Hearst after her kidnapping and O.J. Simpson after his wife's killing, and narrowly escaped one of the falling twin towers on 9/11.

The Sunday Conversation: John Slattery

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The 'Mad Men' actor steps behind the camera this season and likes it but still enjoys the quips of his character, Roger Sterling.

Silver-haired John Slattery, 48, received his third outstanding supporting actor in a drama series Emmy nod for the role of Roger Sterling, the dapper, devilish ad exec of AMC's "Mad Men." The Boston-born actor made his directing debut this season, capping a career spanning TV, film and Broadway and such roles as Will Truman's brother, Sam, on "Will and Grace," Gabrielle Solis' defunct husband on "Desperate Housewives" and one of Carrie Bradshaw's many swains on "Sex and the City."

L.A.'s string of indie labels succeeds with a jack-of-all-trades approach

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

With Arcade Fire at No. 1, there is growing focus on indie labels. L.A.'s scene is vibrant and varied, and it shows the value of passion over a big-business model.

With Arcade Fire at No. 1, there is growing focus on indie labels. L.A.'s scene is vibrant and varied, and it shows the value of passion over a big-business model.

Neil Patrick Harris thanks The Times for his Emmy win

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 09:47 PM PDT

Harris wasn't listed among the nominees for the Tony Awards telecast and we brought the oversight to the attention of both the Tonys and the TV academy.

Arrivals: Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 09:24 PM PDT

Kathy Griffin, Jane Lynch, Neil Patrick Harris and more on the gala red carpet.

Kathy Griffin, Jane Lynch, Neil Patrick Harris and more on the gala red carpet.

'Mesrine': Public enemy, not a hero

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The filmmakers avoid the French criminal's popular mythology to get at the darker truth. 'You can't pretend he is Robin Hood when he isn't,' says star Vincent Cassel.

Paris — As the players came together to make an era-spanning two-film biopic on larger-than-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine, there was plenty of pressure to play to his outlaw legend. After all, as director Jean-François Richet suggests, not a lot of gangsters have been voted "the most popular man" in their country, as Mesrine was in 1978.

Indie Focus: What's seen and unseen in 'The Last Exorcism'

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The filmmakers keep challenging the audience's perceptions about what's really happening when a priest encounters a situation he can't explain away. Cue the goose bumps.

Revealing itself layer upon layer like a freakishly deformed onion, "The Last Exorcism" begins as a film about a disillusioned preacher who wants to debunk the idea of demonic possession by staging a phony exorcism for a documentary film crew. When he encounters a young girl among a backwoods Louisiana community whose condition he can't explain away, it turns everything he knows and believes on its head.

It's a weightier Vincent Cassel in 'Mesrine'

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT

The actor gained 40 pounds to play the French gangster in the two-part film.

Vincent Cassel finally got his Robert De Niro moment in the powerful two-part French gangster epic "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" and "Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1."