Life After Oprah
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Kim Masters reports on how Oprah's exit affects television-and what she's got planned-and Lorraine Ali, who appeared as a guest, on the loss of America's mother confessor.
Oprah Changes Channels
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.
Despite slipping ratings and her failings, she was a class act in the daytime wasteland. Kim Masters on how the mogul's exit will affect the broadcast landscape-and what she's got planned.
Paula Takes On Ellen
We know Ellen DeGeneres is American Idol's new Paula-but is Paula the new Ellen? During last night's Vh1 Divas special, host Abdul impersonated her replacement-inspiring a few laughs, but mostly a ...
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Beatlemania had a major revival, Ellen signed on to Idol, and Whitney took on Susan Boyle. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Standup comedian, sitcom star, talk-show host, and now...American Idol judge? Seems like a natural enough progression-this is America! Anything is ...
Who's Their Type?
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.
Chris Brown's new lady looks eerily like Rihanna, Lance Armstrong always goes for blondes, and Bruce Willis married a Demi clone. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who date look-alikes.
Leonardo DiCaprio isn't only attracted to supermodels-but he's made a habit of dating ones who looks eerily similar. He dated Brazilian Gisele BAźn...
Martha Stewart, Twitter Maniac
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.
How do you make guacamole in 140 characters? The homemaking mogul tells The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove her secret recipe for winning a million Twitter followers.
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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