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.

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.

"Saturday Night Live" kicked off its 42nd season, and all eyes were on Alec Baldwin as he played Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for the first time. The show's cold open played off the first presidential debate and featured Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton and Michael Che as moderator Lester Holt. The sketch, which NBC had promoted earlier in the week, interspersed references from the candidates' real lives with the show's signature comedic zingers -- this time about Trump's taxes, Clinton's sometimes-impersonal demeanor and what some have called the general absurdity of this election. Near the beginning of the bit, McKinnon hobbles on stage, cane in hand and coughing. But once the cane gets stuck, she somersaults into a more invigorated state, a riff on recent concerns about the Democratic presidential nominee's health and a nod to the late Gene Wilder, whose Willy Wonka did the same move in the 1971 movie.

The presidential election campaign and Alex Baldwin's impersonation of Donald Trump gave the season premiere of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" a big ratings lift. Saturday's 42nd season kickoff averaged a 5.8 rating in the 64 overnight markets measured by Nielsen. The figure is 29% higher than the season premiere on Oct. 3, 2015. It was the highest overnight rating for an "SNL" season opener since Sept. 13, 2008, when Tina Fey brought her spot-on impersonation of then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the show. "SNL" pulled out the campaign stops this year with Baldwin as Trump and Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton in a parody of the first presidential debate last Monday (which averaged a record 84 million TV viewers).

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."

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.

Josh Fischel, the founder of last weekend's inaugural Music Tastes Good Festival in Long Beach, died Thursday afternoon of liver disease, according to festival organizers. The news came as a shock to the Long Beach and Southern California music communities, who just days ago saw Fischel overseeing the culmination of a life's work in local music. Though family and festival organizers knew he had been sick, no one knew how rapidly his disease would progress after the festival. Music Tastes Good was a three-day event in downtown Long Beach headlined by the likes of the Specials, Warpaint and the Squeeze, among many others. "He couldn't go more than a few feet in his golf cart without somebody stopping him to say'Hey, Josh!' " said Jon Halperin, the talent buyer and co-promoter of Music Tastes Good.

When it comes to sex tapes, Donald Trump clearly doesn't get it. And that seems downright un-American. While abusing former Miss Universe Alicia Machado during an early-morning tweet, the Republican nominee for president of the United States called her "disgusting" and encouraged followers to look into her past, which, he said, included a "sex tape." Machado, for those not following the news cycle, is the beauty queen Trump previously berated for gaining weight and called "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping." She since has become an American citizen and a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton, who told her story at the first presidential debate.