Marty Feldman: Dead Cool
Writer, fashion commentator and window-dresser, Simon Doonan, is known for his provocative "Simon Says" column in the New York Observer. He has written four books: Confessions of a Window Dresser, Wacky Chicks, a memoir entitled Nasty and a tongue-in-cheek style guide entitled Eccentric Glamour to be published in paperback in mid-April. Nasty is to be re-released as Beautiful People. A comedy TV series entitled Beautiful People, produced by Jon Plowman, will debut on LOGO in May.
Where has all the ugly gone? The Daily Beast's Simon Doonan praises the Young Frankenstein star for his magnificent hideousness.
10 Red-Carpet Catastrophes
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A Slumdog name slip. Tara Reid's breast blunder. Izaac Mizrahi's grabby hands. Kathy Griffin's tasteless joke. Watch some of the most uncomfortable moments ever to hit the red carpet.
My Odyssey Into Extreme Dermatology
Elizabeth Hayt is a freelance writer in Manhattan and the author of I'm No Saint: Memoir of a Wayward Wife. (Warner Books, 2006)
Forget botox, retinol cremes and aging naturally. At age 47, I had called in the big guns to fix the changing texture of my face-electro-surgery. I've never looked so good.
Who Did Nancy Pelosi's New Face?
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
The speaker of the House turns 69 today-not that you'd know it, with her dewy eyes and seamless features. Sandra McElwaine on D.C.'s hottest hush-hush habit: eye lifts, Botox, and more.
My Nuclear Knickers and Other Aging Secrets
Laura Bennett was trained as an architect but has since established her career as a fashion designer by becoming a finalist on Season 3 of Bravo's Project Runway. Bennett lives amid complete chaos in New York City with her husband and six children, Cleo, 20, Peik, 13, Truman, 10, Pierson, 6, Larson, 5, and Finn, 2.
The Project Runway star and mother of six offers advice to aging women everywhere: Screw the liposuction, buy a panty girdle.
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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