The World's Brainiest Call Girl
Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, will be published this fall.
This week a research scientist was unmasked as blogger Belle de Jour, inspiration for Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Olivia Cole on a sex scandal's surprisingly happy ending.
How Bardot Influenced Sex
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
Brigitte Bardot, 75 today, did more than serve as a siren of the sexual revolution-she connected France inextricably with the libido. Plus, view our gallery of women she inspired.
Photography on the Edge
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
A new retrospective in Brussels celebrates 30 years of Michel Comte, including photographs of Carla Bruni, Penelope Cruz, Jeremy Irons, and Catherine Deneuve. VIEW OUR NSFW GALLERY.
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Helmut Newton's Wicked World
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A new exhibition in Berlin celebrates the larger-than-life photographic fantasies of the iconic German photographer. VIEW OUR (NSFW) GALLERY.
A Christmas Tale, a film by Arnaud Desplechin is a wonderfully dark, yet humorous and poetic film about family dysfunction at Christmas time. The castaۥCatherine Deneuve, her daughter Chiara Mastroianni, and James Bond villain Mathieu A...
Lila Azam Zanganeh has taught literature and cinema at Harvard University. She is a literary contributor to Le Monde and a host of other European and American publications. In 2006, she edited a collection of narrative essays on Iran. Her first book—Light of My Life, or How to Net the Incredible Happiness of an Extraordinary Writer—will be published in 2009.
It's the perfect weekend to see movies. What else are you really going to do with three days to kill, especially when all your Black Friday shopping money melted away with the Dow? The Daily Beast guide to six movies that are still in theaters-and are worth your time and money.
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.
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