From Fame to No Fame
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As a new Fame remake hits theaters, The Daily Beast's Jaimie Etkin looks back at the original singing and dancing class of 1980 and finds out where they are now.
Stuff White People Like
Choire Sicha is co-proprietor of The Awl and is at work on a nonfiction book for HarperStudio.
As anxiety about the declining television business permeates the Emmys, the show relies on ... Kanye West jokes.
A Groundbreaking Family
Daniel Frankel is a Los Angeles-based entertainment writer whose work regularly appears in the entertainment news site The Wrap, as well as the Comcast television portal Fancast. He has also served on the editorial staffs of Variety, Mediaweek and E! Online.
A gay toddler with a British accent; a novelist dog; a blowhard dad-meet the Family Guy clan.
HBO's Troubadours Take Flight
Jace Lacob is the writer/editor of Televisionary, a website devoted to television news, criticism, and interviews. Jace resides in Los Angeles. He is a contributor to several entertainment Web sites and can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
The co-creator of Flight of the Conchords discusses its odes to Midnight Cowboy and Magnolia, working with Michel Gondry and whether there will ever be a third season.
Mother Has Its Day
Enid Portuguez is a New York City-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Antenna magazine.
The co-creator of How I Met Your Mother discusses pregnancies, naked men, and-wait for it-Mr. Awesome, Neil Patrick Harris.
The Office Grows Up
Allyssa Lee is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times.
As the NBC comedy evolves, even Steve Carell's Michael Scott has to change, says executive producer-actor Paul Lieberstein. Slowly.
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.
When Entourage Got Serious
Enid Portuguez is a New York City-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Antenna magazine.
The HBO show's creator dishes on the Jeremy Piven "backlash," and says he's "looking forward to losing again."
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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