Zombies Rule, Vampires Suck
Venetia Thompson is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to The Spectator. Her memoir Gross Misconduct will be published in February by Simon and Schuster UK. She lives in London.
Let's ditch the too-cool vampire, says The Daily Beast's Venetia Thompson-the vulnerable, nice-guy zombie is the perfect metaphor for our rotting age.
13 Most Awkward TV Weddings
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On Thursday, after five seasons of beautifully clumsy courtship, Jim and Pam will finally tie the knot on The Office. In true sitcom style, it's guaranteed to be filled with disastrous moments. Therefore, in anticipation, we look back at our favorite trainwreck TV weddings, from Ross' name switcheroo on Friends to the Brady Bunch's mess-making pup.
Revenge of the Scream Queens
Horror heroines have come a long way since King Kong's helpless Fay Wray. Today, Megan Fox eats men in Jennifer's Body-and it's up to her best girlfriend to stop her. Shannon Donnelly on a cinematic evolution. Plus, a gallery of scream queens.
Hollywood's Sexiest Vampires
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Vampires got even hotter this week with the announcement that Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, the stars of True Blood, got engaged. To celebrate, watch the 15 sexiest bloodsuckers onscreen.
14 TV Shows We Want Back
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The end of the formal television season has spurred yet more network culling this week. Samantha Who?, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Eleventh Hour, Cupid, Everybody Hates Chris, Reaper, and Privileged are among the shows not coming back. Every year, great shows get canceled too soon. We look back at a few of our favorites.
12 Best and Worst TV Musicals
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Fox is previewing its new, musically inspired fall show Glee after American Idol in hopes of hooking fans early. But this isn't the first show to be inspired by Broadway-here's a look at some other television shows that have tried (and occasionally failed) to capture the magic of the Great White Way.
Marge Simpson and Dina Lohan: The Best (and Worst) TV Moms
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For Mother's Day, we rounded up our favorite television moms, from role models like The Cosby Show's no-nonsense Clair Huxtable to glad-she-ain't-mine hellions like Married With Children's Peggy Bundy.
Who Killed the Horror Film?
Tom Shone was film critic of the London Sunday Times from 1994-1999. He is the author of two books, Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Free Press) and In The Rooms (Hutchinson), his first novel, to be published on July 7th 2009. He lives in New York.
Babysitters are no longer easy prey. Now, in films like Last House on the Left, it's the serial killers that are being massacred. Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees lament the brutal death of the scary movie.
Will TV Slay Joss Whedon?
Joel Keller is the editor in chief of the AOL blog TV Squad. His writing about pop culture, food, and travel has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Cinematical, and Radar Online. Even after writing about TV for five years, he still hasn't figured out how to write off a 50" plasma TV on his taxes.
Television's premier geek auteur, Buffy creator Joss Whedon, on why his new series, Dollhouse, isn't another Firefly, how Eliza Dushku found her inner Meryl Streep, and when Dr. Horrible will sing again.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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