Slumdog is Top Dog
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Slumdog Millionaire may have swept the Oscars, Kate Winslet finally won, and Sean Penn outwrestled Mickey Rourke for Best Actor, but who were truly the big winners at the Academy Awards? We give out a few Bronze Beasts. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Taraji P. Henson in Roberto Cavalli, Natalie Portman in Rodarte, Anne Hathaway in Armani Prive
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.
We Miserable Catholics
After 30 years as teacher of high-school English in New York City, Frank McCourt retired and wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes. McCourt published two more memoirs, 'Tis and Teacher Man along with a children's book, Angela and the Baby Jesus.
Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt on the movie Doubt-and the unique joylessness of the Catholic Church.
The Golden Globes are the first wintry sign that awards season is upon us-they set the tone for the Oscars and the Emmys. This year, there were some obvious nods and some surprises (Tom Cruise for Tropic Thunder? Really?). More important, a few of the year's best films, like Milk and The Dark Knight, were snubbed. Who was robbed and who won big?
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.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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.
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