What Are They Hiding?
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
With millions at stake, Sony is on a bizarre campaign to stomp out negative publicity for This Is It, Jackson's final performance. Jacob Bernstein goes behind the veil.
Hollywood's Fake Math
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Thanks to Transformers, studios claim it's the best summer box office of all time, but Kim Masters says the numbers are lying. Can James Cameron and the Twilight sequel save Fall?
The First Summer Blockbuster?
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Christian Bale's hotly anticipated Terminator Salvation opened Thursday-with an unexpected cameo by the Governator. But in an era of war, torture and terror, its popcorn movie clichés seem strangely off base.
Is Watchmen the Next Dark Knight?
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 brilliant graphic novel has a cult following. The director is coming off a surprise blockbuster. But just how high can this super-noir superhero movie fly?
According to Las Vegas oddsmakers, Heath Ledger has an overwhelming 1-to-14 shot at winning the second posthumous acting Oscar ever bestowed by the Academy. (The other went to Peter "I'm Mad As Hell" Finch for his performance in Network). Ledger's vibrant, chilling turn in The Dark Knight is almost certainly good enough to have earned him a nomination even if his life hadn't been cut tragically short-but, crass as it sounds, he's winning in a walk because it was. Here are a few others who have benefited from Oscar's sympathy.
The Golden Globe awards set the tone for the Oscars and other red carpet shows to follow. This year, there were some obvious nods-and a few surprises. (Tom Cruise for Tropic Thunder? Really?) More importantly, a few of the year's most heavily praised films, like Milk and The Dark Knight were snubbed. Who deserves a trophy? The Daily Beast's short guide to everything Globes.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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