The Triumph of Air Guitar
Dan Crane starred in the award-winning documentary Air Guitar Nation and his memoir, To Air is Human, was lauded by TimeOut New York as doing for the air-guitar world “what George Plimpton’s gonzo-journalism Paper Lion did for football.” He is also a journalist, and a musician and comedic actor.
Adventures of Power, a new movie about air drumming, causes a rift in the air instrument community. Air Guitarist Dan Crane tells air drummers to get a real job.
Where's Vinny?
Sean Macaulay was the L.A. movie critic for The London Times from 1999 to 2007. He has also written for Punch, British GQ, and The Mail on Sunday. He was most recently creative consultant on the award-winning documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
It's the real question hanging over Sunday's season finale of Entourage: What to do when the lead character is just too gorgeously boring? The Daily Beast's Sean Macaulay with a new script.
When Entourage Got Serious
Enid Portuguez is a New York City-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Antenna magazine.
The HBO show's creator dishes on the Jeremy Piven "backlash," and says he's "looking forward to losing again."
Hollywood's New Don
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
After snatching up the William Morris Agency, Rahm Emanuel's younger brother, Ari, is vying to become the next Hollywood strongman, says Kim Masters. But does he have the muscle?
First Peek: Jeremy Piven Debuts On Broadway
Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain will be published by St. Martins Press.
The Entourage star is the Box Office draw in a new production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow-but his lesser-known co-star, Raul Esparza, could prove the show stealer.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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