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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the Twilight soundtrack debuts, outsider artist James Castle gets his first retrospective, and author Barbara Ehrenreich takes on positive thinking in America.
13 Most Awkward TV Weddings
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On Thursday, after five seasons of beautifully clumsy courtship, Jim and Pam will finally tie the knot on The Office. In true sitcom style, it's guaranteed to be filled with disastrous moments. Therefore, in anticipation, we look back at our favorite trainwreck TV weddings, from Ross' name switcheroo on Friends to the Brady Bunch's mess-making pup.
15 Top TV Nurses from M*A*S*H to Mercy
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Doctor dramas have dominated the airwaves for some time with their larger-than-life plots and leading male heartthrobs, but now a new crop of TV shows is shifting focus to some tough-minded nurses who are often left on the sidelines. Here are 15 of our favorite TV nurses from the classic M*A*S*H to Mercy, a new series premiering this week on NBC.
The 40-Year-Old Heartthrob
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Former teen idols Jason Priestley, Donnie Wahlberg, and Christian Slater all turn 40 this month. VIEW OUR GALLERY of older kids on the block who still have the right stuff.
Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Letterman topped Conan, Shia LaBeouf got weird, the Obamas took in some art in Paris, and Dave Matthews rose again. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Scarlett Johansson is singing again, Danny Boyle saves the Slumdog kids, and Archie proposes-to Veronica. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
Will Your Favorite Shows Be Canceled?
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.
The economics of television have changed this year, Kim Masters reports. Now season finales of shows like Chuck, Dollhouse, and My Name Is Earl may actually be series finales.
Baby Bumps on TV
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Ellen Pompeo's pregnant but will her character on Grey's Anatomy also be expecting? From Lucy Ricardo to Carrie Bradshaw, VIEW OUR GALLERY of great TV stork watching.
Last of the Red-Hot Lesbians
Gail Eisenberg is the co-writer and co-star of Cat Eisenberg, Dog Eisenberg, an original multiplatform series commissioned by LOGO. She is currently developing a reality series in partnership with Jack Lechner and World of Wonder. Her work has appeared in Time Out New York, The Daily News, and Newsday, as well as on Comedy Central, HBO, and LOGO's first-ever NewNowNext Awards. She is the humor editor of Ducts.org.
As The L Word signs off, series creator Ilene Chaiken reflects on the end of lesbians on TV, the rise of Rachel Maddow, the female Brokeback Mountain, and her even sexier sequel-women in prison.
From The Wonder Years to Grey's Anatomy, a look back at the most notable television episodes to score a touchdown after the biggest sports day of the year.
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.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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