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Is Pedro Almodóvar a Fraud?
U.S. critics think he's a genius, but even his fellow Spaniards say he's a fraud. Constantino Diaz-Duran on how the Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker dupes his fawning American fan base.
The Essential Holiday Movie Guide
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From Colin Firth's devastating drama A Single Man to Penelope Cruz's love affair in Broken Embraces, VIEW TRAILERS and read reviews of 20 films to see-or skip-near you.
Week in Red Carpet
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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.
Christina Ricci works the angles in Alexander McQueen, Abbie Cornish stuns in violet, and Zoe Saldana goes long and lacy. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best looks of the week.
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, Penelope Cruz showed her dark side, Will Smith and Jay-Z came to Broadway, and Taylor Swift became a greeting card. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in music, film, TV, and art.
The Yes List – Tim Burton's Macabre Art at MoMA
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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.
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.
I haven't been a gigantic Pedro Almodóvar fan in the past, which is probably because I'm too literal-minded and conventional in my narrative tastes. So I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed his new film, Broken Embraces. ...
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Kurt Andersen is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed bestsellers Heyday and Turn of the Century. His new book is called Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, editor-at-large for Random House, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and writes for film, television and the stage.
The Week in Red Carpet
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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.
With movie premieres to attend and new gadgets to fête, the stars were out in full force this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the faces and trends in front of the flashbulbs.
Cannes' Eight Buzziest Films
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Anne Thompson launched the daily ThompsononHollywood blog in March 2007, when she joined Variety as a columnist. Previously, she was deputy film editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where she wrote the weekly syndicated column "Risky Business" and the Riskybizblog. She has also served as west coast editor of Premiere and Film Comment, and senior writer at Entertainment Weekly.
The inside scoop on the films everyone on the Croisette is talking about-from Lars von Trier's gore-fest to Tarantino's World War II epic and Almodóvar's so-so latest.
Cannes' 8 Sexiest Films
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Darrell Hartman writes about movies for Interview magazine and Artforum. He is also a regular contributor to Style.com, Travel + Leisure, Art + Auction, and New York magazine.
From Heath Ledger's final (unfinished) role to Quentin Tarantino's comeback, this year's Cannes Festival favors big-time Hollywood star power-so big, they're handing out 3-D glasses.
10 Power Food Combos
How Obama Wins in 2012
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
How Close Is It?
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.
Heroine of the Hour
Sean Wilentz is a history professor at Princeton University whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and historian-in residence at Bob Dylan's official website.
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