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.
Television's Big Night: The Top 10 Emmy Moments
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Naturally, the least surprising awards show of the season honored a slew of repeat winners (30 Rock, The Daily Show, Mad Men), but thankfully, a few new faces like Jon Cryer and Kristen Chenoweth kept things interesting. Here are the ten best moments of the 61st Annual Emmy Awards.
Big Love Gets Personal
Allyssa Lee is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times.
The HBO hit's co-creator talks about why his "sunny polygamists" darkened in their Emmy-nominated third season.
Critics and viewers alike agree that this third season, in which the Henricksons flirted with a fourth wife, Bill's casino outfit got off the groun...
The Yes List
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. First up: a Sundance hit that's making its way to the megaplex.
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Tina Fey goes for Emmy gold, a new absurdist Jane Austen book, and more. View our gallery of the best of music, TV, film, and art.
Jessica Lange's Secret Passion
Amanda Fortini has written for The New Yorker, Slate, Elle, and New York, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
Jessica Lange isn't just an Emmy nominee for Grey Gardens, she's also an acclaimed photographer. Amanda Fortini talked to the actress about aging, love, and her most iconic roles.
Grey Gardens
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The much-trumpeted movie about Jackie O's maddeningly eccentric relatives airs tonight. From the iconic fashion to the cult following and Drew Barrymore's inner rage, read our coverage of Grey Gardens.
Mary Stuart on Broadway with Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend it. It's going to get brilliant reviews and if I were a New Yorker, I would go in previews while you can still get in. The play is fro...
Malcolm Gets plays George “Gould” Strong in HBO’s Grey Gardens. He has appeared in such films as Sex and the City, Little Boy Blues, Adam & Steve, Love in the Time of Money, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. His TV credits include Caroline in the City, Remember WENN, and Law & Order.
Drew's Anger and Darkness
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
In HBO's Grey Gardens, Drew Barrymore trades in her usually sunny smile to play an eccentric shut-in. Rachel Syme talked to the actress about the Method behind her madness.
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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