Roller Girl
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.
Drew Barrymore discusses getting plastered, happy endings, and female fight clubs, as her directorial debut, Whip It!, about chick roller derby, hits theaters.
Trailer Park
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From Ricky Gervais' surreal new comedy to the Coen Brothers' autobiographical film, WATCH TRAILERS of this weekend's buzziest films and TV shows.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Winnie-the-Pooh made a comeback, Spielberg and Lucas teamed up again, James Bond and Wolverine flopped on Broadway, and more in film, TV, music, and art.
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...
Remembering John Hughes
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Watch clips of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other great movies from the legendary director who died Thursday. Plus, view our gallery of his muses then and now.
John Hughes' Muses: Then and Now
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.
They charmed us with feathered hair and hair-brained schemes-and now they're all grown up. In honor of his death, The Daily Beast catches up with the quirky cast that brought filmmaker John Hughes' work to life. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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.
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