The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Diane Sawyer got promoted, Whitney Houston staged a comeback, a plus-size model hit it big, and Angela Lansbury paid homage to Bea Arthur. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
This week's feel-good, breakout indie film (and yes, there's one every week), is Amreeka, first-time filmmaker Cherien Dabis' tale about a Christia...
Cannes' Eight Buzziest Films
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
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.
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.
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Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
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