The Week In Culture
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From a surprise Tony host to priceless Tintin comics, American Idol to amazing archeological discoveries, your week in television, film, theater, and art.
David Hockney's 1966 painting of Los Angeles arts patron Betty Freeman (standing next to a zebra Le Corbusier lounge chair, no less), Beverly Hills...
Barack 'N' Roll
From 2005 to the end of 2008, William Triplett was head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of Variety.
When media reports surfaced earlier in the year that he had an ongoing e-mail "relationship" with Scarlett Johansson-not exactly known for her sage political advice ala David Axelrod-Obama went out of his way to downplay it.
Bill Clinton Jams with Elvis Costello and Other TV Highlights
Nicole Ankowski writes about television, pop culture, and—on occasion—more frivolous matters. She lives in Brooklyn.
This week: Barbara Walters reveals her most fascinating person of the year, William Shatner gets a talk show and Daniel Radcliffe talks about on-stage erections.
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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