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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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 Frances Osborne's racy high society read The Bolter just gave me a very absorbing beach blanket weekend. For those who have a weakness for high gossip wrapped in shrewd social history it is irresistible stuff. Set in pre-WW II London and amid the wild salons of ex-pat Africa, it's a page-turning tale of the decadent, five times married, aristo-heartbreaker Lady Idina Sackville, who bathed in a green onyx tub filled with champagne and invited her 'Happy Valley' house guests to watch as she rose and dressed for dinner. The author's authentic eye should come as no surprise...she is Lady Idina's great grand-daughter. |
Tina Brown
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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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Depressed by crooks and slimeballs coming out of the woodwork every five minutes? Get a tonic from an HBO video that was shot to help the New York City Police Foundation raise money. Yes, it has the scary stuff about gunshots and knives that make up the unpredictable day in the life of a cop, but there’s also a heartwarming story by 68th Precinct Officer Susan Porcello. She answers a 911 call and finds herself entering the life of a handsome, elderly Marine. Not what you think. He’s ill and alone in the world. Porcello—a social worker with a gun—relates what happened to him and to her. It made me cry. If you are able to open your wallet for the New York City Police Foundation, every dollar helps. |
Tina Brown
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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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Looking for Lincoln. This smart, moving, funny, and brilliantly crafted film is an historic television event, in this the bicentennial year of Lincoln, a year full of hagiography and hero worship. The cult of Lincoln is as strong as ever, even among historians. But Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has taken an unusually candid and unapologetic look at our nation's greatest president, and deconstructs many of the myths that have beclouded the man for over a century and a half. In the end, Gates renders one of the first nuanced and sensitive three-dimensional portraits of Lincoln as an enormously complicated man, a man very much of his time, yet a man who confronted his prejudices and, in the end, triumphed. |
Tina Brown
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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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The perfect roundoff for Inauguration Week is to see the original Star-Spangled Banner, stunning in its size—30 feet by 34 feet—and haunting in its fragility. It is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History on Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets (which is worth a visit any time). The wool and cotton flag, nearly 200 years old, lies at a 10-degree angle of elevation behind a 35-foot floor-to-ceiling glass wall in a special enclosure designed to evoke an atmosphere of "dawn's early light" similar to the sight that inspired Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814. The first stanza of the national anthem is projected on the wall above the banner. In a week of high emotion, it gave me some quiet moments of awed contemplation of how far this great republic has come. |
Tina Brown
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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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The Reader. Stephen Daldry’s movie from the gripping Bernhard Schlink novel is hauntingly brilliant. He coaxes Oscar-winning performances not just from Kate Winslet, as the morally uncomprehending Hanna Schmitz, but from the young German actor David Kross who, incredibly, was taught to speak English for the film. The genius of Daldry's direction is that once Hanna's terrible secret is known to the audience, every physical detail of their love affair evokes Germany's horrific past. The removal of the lovers’ shoes, the washing of their bodies, the numbers daubed onto cabanas at the lake. The audience at the screener I attended left in stunned silence. |
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