What's in the Fabloids
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Tom Cruise talks to ashtrays, the Beckhams get micro-pigs, and Angelina's adopting-without Brad's consent, say the tabloids. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
What's in the Fabloids
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.
Fergie and Josh Duhamel are shocked by a stripper's allegation, Angelina may be sleeping with women, and Kate Gosselin has another epiphany. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
What's in the Fabloids
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.
Oprah hits the bottle, Brad and Angelina wed in secret, and the Octomom and Jon Gosselin are ready to start dating. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
That sound of teens collectively sighing and crying throughout the country is the reaction to the reported break-up between Robert Pattison and Kri...
Obama Wins Heisman Trophy!
A former political operative, recovering copywriter, and failed sitcom writer, Mark Katz is now the founder and principal of the Soundbite Institute, a creative think tank that specializes in on-message humor. His essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine, and he is the author of CLINTON & ME: A Real Life Political Comedy, an account of eight years as the in-house humor speechwriter of the Clinton White House.
The Nobel is not the only award the president does not deserve. Mark Katz imagines the prizes yet to come.
Disney's Power Struggle
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.
Can the studio rebound if actors demand the upfront payouts of yesterday's market and producers like Jerry Bruckheimer blow $170 million on a movie like G-Force? Kim Masters on Hollywood's new math.
Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Letterman topped Conan, Shia LaBeouf got weird, the Obamas took in some art in Paris, and Dave Matthews rose again. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
John Travolta and the New OCD Villains
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.
Pay attention! In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, John Travolta is latest example of a control-freak bad guy. Tom Shone has seen enough.
Spike Shoots, Kobe Scores
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
Spike Lee talks to The Daily Beast's Touré about his revelatory new documentary, Kobe Doin' Work, following a game in the life of Los Angeles Lakers' superstar Kobe Bryant.
The Resurrection of Tom Cruise
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.
Nearly four years after jumping on Oprah's couch, Tom Cruise has slowly rehabilitated his image in Hollywood. Kim Masters reports on how he accomplished this impossible mission.
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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