Bryan Curtis is a senior editor at The Daily Beast. His story about his grandfather’s softball career is in The Best American Sports Writing of 2009.
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Pixar's Up Leads a Vibrant Pack of Animated Awards Hopefuls
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Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
A mean little girl; a grumpy old man; a well-dressed fox: this year's race for best animated feature is heating up as the one to watch.
Zombies Rule, Vampires Suck
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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.
The Yes List - Fall's Most Charming Indie Film
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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, in the Sundance favorite Amreeka, a single mom goes from the West Bank to White Castle.
The Great 'Inglourious' Debate
Quentin Tarantino's controversial Nazi flick hit theaters to surprise box-office success-and sharply divided reviews. From the critics to the worshipers, The Daily Beast dissects the explosive response Inglourious Basterds has generated.Photo: Weinstein Company / Everett Collection
The Yes List
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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, a Palme d'Or winner at Cannes is a powerful portrait of high-school life in Paris.
The Week in Culture
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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.
Michelle Obama wowed the art world, the King of Pop's comeback stalled, and there's a new Footloose star on the horizon. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, television, and art.
Tarantino's Love Letter
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Dana Kennedy, a former correspondent for ABC News, Fox News and MSNBC, who also writes for the The New York Times, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time magazine and People, among others, is based in Europe.
Inglourious Basterds, premiering tonight at Cannes, should have been epic, writes Dana Kennedy from the first screening, if only Quentin Tarantino had stuck with his violent, emotional hallmarks.
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.
Red Carpet: Cannes
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Mariah Carey wore black, Eva Longoria wore blue, and the carpet was red as ever at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the weeklong event's best moments so far.
Bush's Ghostwriter
Democratic Trainwreck
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.
Benjamin Sarlin is Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Biden's Disastrous Israel Trip
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21 and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Ken Starr's New Stand
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
A Predator Among Us?
Pulitzer nominee Caitlin Rother, a former investigative reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune, is the author of five crime books—Poisoned Love, Twisted Triangle, Body Parts and the thriller Naked Addiction—and co-author of Where Hope Begins.
