Look Who's Related!
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Turns out Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are distant cousins. VIEW OUR GALLERY of other unlikely relatives, including Barack Obama and Robert E. Lee, and Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie.
Perhaps the most shocking of the president's many distant relatives is...Dick Cheney. Lynne Cheney made the announcement in 2007 that she discovere...
Back to the '90s
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Terry McMillan-the 1990s were a beach-read paradise of movie-optioned paperbacks. Here are nine page-turners just as addictive as they were a decade ago.
What's in the Fabloids
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Michael Jackson's last supper, Farrah Fawcett's dying wish, and Kate Gosselin is feeling the weight of divorce-literally. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
OK! reportedly shelled out $500,000 for Michael Jackson's chilling final photo. It depicts Jacko as he's rushed into an ambulance bound for UCLA Me...
Citizen Affleck
Pat O'Brien has been a broadcaster for more than three decades, including many years as the co-host of Access Hollywood and The Insider. A former anchor for CBS Sports, he is also the author of Talkin' Sports: A B.S.-er's Guide. He divides his time among Los Angeles, New York, and Nantucket.
He plays a congressman in the just-released State of Play and sounds like one, too. Ben Affleck speaks out about the crisis in Africa, rape, and whether he'll actually run for office.
Oscars Speech Dos and Don'ts
Dale Hrabi has analyzed culture and trends as a writer and editor for Details, Elle, Radar, and the New York Times. His new humor book, The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents was recently published by Harper Collins.
From Jack Palance's pushups to Marlon Brando's bizarre protest, the Academy's big winners either get it very right-and horribly wrong. View our video guide to statuette-iquette.
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.
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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