Celebrity Halloween Costumes
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Katie Couric went as Donald Trump, Kyle MacLachlan made a fine George Hamilton, and Matt Lauer sure loves women's clothing. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who dressed up as other stars.
The Yes List – 40 Years of Monty Python
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Monty Python reunites for a 40th anniversary bonanza, The Frieze Art Fair begins in London, and Julia Stiles meets David Mamet on Broadway.
The Best of Brit Lit
Peter Stothard is editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He was editor of The Times of London from 1992-2002. He is the author of Thirty Days, a Downing Street diary of his time with British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the Iraq war and On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy will be published in January.
A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: Somerset Maugham's wild sexuality, how snakes help us see, and the importance of literary mags.
Hef's Sex Education
Matthew Hays is a Montreal-based journalist and the author of The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers (Arsenal Pulp Press). He is also a programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival
A new documentary explores Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's little-known history as an early gay-rights pioneer. Plus, the night he was fixed up with Gloria Steinem.
What's in the Fabloids
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Michael Jackson's last supper, Farrah Fawcett's dying wish, and Kate Gosselin is feeling the weight of divorce-literally. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
OK! reportedly shelled out $500,000 for Michael Jackson's chilling final photo. It depicts Jacko as he's rushed into an ambulance bound for UCLA Me...
Sex Scandal for the History Books
Daphne Merkin was a staff writer for The New Yorker and is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Elle. She is the author of a novel, Enchantment, and a collection of essays, Dreaming of Hitler.
Masters and Johnson wrote the book on sex, and now a definitive biography of the duo reveals everything you wanted to know-and more- about their secret personal affair.
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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