The 2009 Tony Awards
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
From the adorable three Billy Elliots to Bret Michaels' near decapitation by set piece, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best moments from Broadway's biggest night.
Frost/Nixon is great. It's well-directed and well-acted. Frank Langella did a wonderful job-I think he really got into his character and captured Richard Nixon perfectly.
Sienna Miller is a BAFTA-nominated actress, model, and fashion designer. Her film credits include: Alfie, Factory Girl, Layer Cake, Casanova, Interview, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and The Edge of Love.
The Worst Oscars Ever
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Last night's show was an embarrassingly contrived spectacle that only served to prove how insecure Hollywood is about its own future.
Don't Give It to Mickey!
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Or Sean Penn. Frost/Nixon's Frank Langella deserves the Best Actor award, and the future of acting may be at stake.
The Nixon I Knew
New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's books include Ike, Horse People, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charmed Lives.
Michael Korda writes that in the new movie Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella captures Richard Nixon as he was-down to the hunched shoulders, the unnerving leer, and his masterful use of television.
Diane Sawyer on Fact vs. Fiction in Frost/Nixon
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
The GMA host-who worked for Richard Nixon at the time of his interview with David Frost-talks with The Daily Beast about her memories of her ex-boss.
He's Ba-a-a-ack!
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The New York establishment? "They're done!" The press? "The enemy!" Professors? "The enemy!" Richard Nixon continues to spook the nation from beyond the grave with the latest eavesdrop on taped Oval Office conversations.
I just went to an early screening of Ron Howard's new movie of Peter Morgan's hit play, FROST/NIXON. Morgan has also written the screenplay with Michael Sheen and Frank Langella reprising their theatrical roles. It's the story of how Eng...
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of Young Stalin, winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Biography, and of the forthcoming novel Sashenka, out in November from Simon & Schuster. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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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