Pretty Women Pelted by Meatballs
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.
Megan Fox's Jennifer's Body tanks; Jennifer Aniston's Love Happens sinks; Oscar-hopeful The Informant! does just OK. All were felled by the animated Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs .
Revenge of the Scream Queens
Horror heroines have come a long way since King Kong's helpless Fay Wray. Today, Megan Fox eats men in Jennifer's Body-and it's up to her best girlfriend to stop her. Shannon Donnelly on a cinematic evolution. Plus, a gallery of scream queens.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The Golden Girls take Venezuela, Neil Patrick Harris basks in a lovefest, and Oprah loves Mad Men. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the week in music, TV, film, and art.
Stars Dazzle in Toronto
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The Toronto Film Festival kicks off as the launching pad for Oscar season this week. From Matt Damon and Megan Fox to George Clooney and Penelope Cruz, VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who took on the red carpet up north.
Amanda Seyfried arrives at the Up In The Air screening during the Toronto International Film Festival.
Fall's 25 Hottest Movies
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From star-studded musicals (Nine) to buzzy indies (Precious) to Clint Eastwood's Oscar hopeful, The Daily Beast selects the 25 films you don't want to miss this fall. WATCH TRAILERS.
Office Space creator Mike Judge is back with another biting workplace comedy, but this time he's flipping the script and making the boss the sympat...
United States of Toni Collette
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As her acclaimed Showtime hit United States of Tara wraps for the season, Oscar-nominated star of Little Miss Sunshine and Muriel's Wedding Toni Collette sounds off on Diablo Cody, motherhood, and why dissociative identity disorder satisfies her creative needs.
Let the Awards Season Begin
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The first A-list event of the season-the Palm Springs Film Festival opening gala-took place last night, and the celebrities were cadging for Oscars. Whose acceptance speech needs work? The Daily Beast's Rachel Syme reports.
The Rachel Getting Married star on the red carpet for the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in Palm Springs, Calif., Tuesday.
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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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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