Neville Marriner, the first music director of the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and the founder of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra in London, died Sunday night, the academy said. Millions of moviegoers who may not recognize Marriner's name have nonetheless been touched by his work: He served as music supervisor for the film version of "Amadeus" and conducted the soundtrack, which went on to be one of the bestselling classical recordings of all time. Born April 15,1924, in Lincoln, England, Marriner studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He began his career as a violinist, eventually playing in the London Symphony Orchestra. Later, what started as a group of friends gathering to rehearse in Marriner's living room became the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, a premier chamber ensemble that gave its first performance in its namesake London church in 1959.

Each fall, most of the broadcast and cable networks debut a ton of new shows in the span of a few months, making it difficult to sort out which ones to make time for and which to skip. So we're starting the WIRED Pilot Program, where we highlight what you should continue watching, and what you can just let sit on your DVR until it automatically deletes. The Premise: Based on Michel Crichton's 1973 film of the same name, the series is set in and around a futuristic theme park with hundreds of advanced robots are used to form various experiences for park guests. Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), the creator of the park, and Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), build the artificial citizens; Theresa Cullen (Sidse Babett Knudsen) leads the operations of the park, and is responsible to shareholders and management; Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton), and Hector Escaton (Rodrigo Santoro) are all characters at Westworld. The cast also includes Ed Harris, James Marsden, Clifton Collins Jr., and Luke Hemsworth. The Pilot Program Take: Disney prides itself on preserving the magic of its theme parks by maintaining absolute order over all attractions and characters.

The announcement was encouraging for the Palo Alto, California-based company, which has had a rocky couple of months. Tesla suffered a larger-than-expected loss in the second quarter. And, in June, the government began investigating Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot system after a driver using the system died in a Florida crash. Tesla said last month it was making major improvements to its Autopilot system.

The fabulous paradox of Dolly Parton is that this pint-sized dynamo has created and sustained a larger-than-life, often-cartoonish persona immersed in glitz and glamour without losing the connection to her humble beginnings in the impoverished backwoods of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. At the first of two sold-out shows over the weekend at the Hollywood Bowl -- on her most extensive North American tour in a quarter century -- the country singer and songwriter who turned 70 in January was every bit the effusive performer, even while apologizing to the audience for nursing a slight head cold. "It's a good thing it's not a chest cold," she quipped in one of a string of self-effacing one-liners targeting her famous figure. "That'd be like a giraffe with a sore throat." Her current "Pure & Simple" tour, drawn from her new album with the same title, creates an elegant stage setting, with half a dozen curtains flowing from the rafters down to the stage, gorgeously lighted in colors that helped to highlight her pristine white jumpsuit.

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," from 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment, bested fellow new release, Lionsgate's "Deepwater Horizon" and expelled last week's victor, "The Magnificent Seven." "Miss Peregrine" brought in an estimated 28.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, meeting analyst expectations of 25 million to 30 million in its opening week. It pulled in 36.5 million internationally. "I'm very excited about it. We're thrilled," said Chris Aronson, the studio's domestic distribution chief.

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Time travel – it should work, right? We understand time, we understand travel. It seems to be just a matter of getting the parts. Until then, we have television. Along with BBC America's "Doctor Who," Starz' "Outlander" and the CW's "Legends of Tomorrow," to name just a few, the 2016-17 season will bring Fox's "Making History," ABC's "Time After Time," the CW's "Frequency" and, beginning Monday, NBC's "Timeless."

I'm really a noob but.. Has anyone tried to model this using a vanilla convolutional network? And the third network you do the same, and it's 5 second time window. At the top of the third network one would sample the top most layer and convert to the next input's audio sample. I'm also thinking about a deconvolutional network, to deconvolute the top layer and then get many samples without needing to wait 90 minutes for sound generation. I've been trying to use the libraries, but I'm really new at the field and a windows user, so had no luck so far.

The honor and struggle of the working class is a staple of auteur cinema -- in modern days, via some of the works of the Dardenne brothers and Mike Leigh and, in earlier times, with classics such as "The Bicycle Thief." But few directors do neorealism like Ken Loach. And few Loach movies arrive at a more propitious moment than the British director's latest, "I, Daniel Blake." The surprising (to some critics, really surprising) recipient of this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, "Blake" made its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival on Saturday ahead of its American release in December. It comes as income inequality has dominated a presidential election cycle and driven various forms of populism across Europe.

Roy Lichtenstein's wry, comic book-y images may feel quintessentially New York. The Pop art pioneer, after all, grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where he lived most of his life. But for more than 25 years, Lichtenstein had a love affair with Los Angeles. At least every other year starting in the late 1960s, and always strategically timed in the dead of winter, Lichtenstein migrated to L.A. to create new prints at Gemini G.E.L., the workshop that was at the epicenter of the nationwide printmaking revival happening at the time. The Skirball Cultural Center's "Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.," which opens Oct. 7, explores the artist's relationship with L.A.