The Messenger is an intense, beautifully made, rip-your-heart-out kind of movie-with fantastic performances by Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton. But it's the day players-the actors with one scene each, who are informed th...
Richard LaGravenese is a screenwriter, director and producer. His credits include THE FISHER KING, THE REF, BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, THE HORSE WHISPERER, LIVING OUT LOUD, FREEDOM WRITERS and P.S. I LOVE YOU, as well as the IFC documentary series A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE, winner of the National Board of Review's William K. Everson award for film history.
Week in Red Carpet
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Hilary Swank and Carey Mulligan swanned in Vionnet at film premieres this week, while Sienna Miller rocked out in Balmain for the opening of her new play. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Nick Hornby's Oscar Insta-Buzz
Tom Shone was film critic of the London Sunday Times from 1994-1999. He is the author of two books, Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Free Press) and In The Rooms (Hutchinson), his first novel, to be published on July 7th 2009. He lives in New York.
Novelist Nick Hornby's screenplay for An Education has made him an instant Oscar favorite. He speaks with Tom Shone about the insanity of Sundance and his Tom Hanks obsession.
The Yes List—Carey Mulligan Earns High Marks for An Education
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, breakout star Carey Mulligan is generating Oscar buzz for her performance as a young girl seduced by an older man in 1960s London.
A Touch of Audrey
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
As the breakout star of An Education, Carey Mulligan is being compared to a young Hepburn. She talks to Rachel Syme about older men and playing Gordon Gekko's daughter in Wall Street 2.
Early Oscar Bets
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Awards season is heating up and the race is taking shape. Six influential Hollywood pundits and the Daily Beast predict the movies sure to get some Oscar love.
At Sundance, this young British phenom was called "the next Audrey Hepburn," wowing critics with her acting chops and grace. The 24-year-old starre...
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, ballerinas were canned, Jay-Z came through in a pinch, the Obamas celebrated twang, and divorcees broke out in song. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the week in TV, art, film, and music.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Bottoms Up and over 25 other erotica anthologies, and hosts and curates In The Flesh Reading Series.
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
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