Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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Youngest Celebrity Grandparents
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Jim Carrey became a grandpa this week at 48. From Sarah Palin (at 44) to Whoopi Goldberg (34!), VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who became grandparents before 50.
Youngest Celebrity Grandparents
As if it wasn't difficult enough to imagine Jim Carrey, the actor best known for bathroom humor and exaggerated facial expressions, as a father, th...
Reinventing Spider-Man
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Should Jake Gyllenhaal replace Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man? From Sherlock Holmes to James Bond to the Karate Kid, VIEW OUR GALLERY charting franchise fiascoes and successes.
Franchise Reboots
With Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi no longer attached to Spider-Man 4, it's time for Marvel to reboot the franchise that began in 1962. The ...
Can Spider-Man Survive Without Tobey?
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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.
Paging Zac Efron. Sony is scrapping the next installment of the Spider-Man franchise in favor of rebooting the brand with a prequel and a younger star. Kim Masters on the billion-dollar bet.
Stars with Jersey Shore Abs
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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino isn't the only one with killer abs. VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous six-packs-from Hugh Jackman to Matt Lauer to...Kelsey Grammer?
The Week in Culture
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Rachel Syme is the former culture editor of The Daily Beast and now writes regularly about the arts.
This week, Bob Dylan wishes you a Merry Christmas, R. Kelly pens a memoir, and Lovely Bones hits theaters. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in music, art, film, and TV.
The Yes List – Tim Burton's Macabre Art at MoMA
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the dark art of Tim Burton at MoMA, Penelope Cruz dazzles in the new Almodóvar movie, and Will Smith and Jay-Z come to Broadway.
Tim Burton's Twisted Art
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Kate Taylor's reporting has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the New Yorker, and the New York Sun. She edited the anthology Going Hungry.
The modern master of the macabre is celebrated with a MoMA retrospective of his wonderfully warped paintings, sculptures, and drawings. VIEW OUR GALLERY. Plus, more on Art Beast.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
America's Craziest Cities
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U.S. Debunks Autism Myth
Adam Winkler is a constitutional law professor at UCLA.
What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers
Charles Fried was Solicitor General of the United States. His book with Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Gregory Fried is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His book with Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Haiti Loses Its Lifeboat
Dr. Sheri Fink the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about wartime Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford. She was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
