Nicolas Cage, Compulsive Spender
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
The star is blaming his ex-money manager for his money problems. But insiders say it was Cage who spent his way into big troubles. Jacob Bernstein reports on the star's head-spinning treasure trove: more than a dozen houses, two Bahamian islands, dinosaur skulls, the shah of Iran's Lamborghini (and more). Fun while it lasted.
Larry David's Famous Friends
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The cast of Seinfeld reunites on Curb Your Enthusiasm on Sunday. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars with Curb cameos-and read some of their funniest lines.
The Not Ready for Primetime Player
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Not even the presence of a contrite Kanye West could save Jay Leno's first night from painful dullness.
Everything You Need to Know About the Upfronts
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.
Advertisers walk out on Jay Leno, Fox execs confess financial difficulties (but renew the hardly watched Dollhouse for fear of angering its tiny cult following), and ABC places its bet on comedy: new, unheard-of comedy-and lots of it. Kim Masters reports from this week's television upfronts.
A-List Homewreckers
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This week, a 24-year-old Russian pop tart tore apart Mel and Robyn Gibson's marriage. She's in glamorous company. VIEW OUR GALLERY of Hollywood's most famous homewreckers.
Culprit: Russell Crowe Couple: Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid How it went down: The A-list pair met on the set of Proof of Life in 2000 and quickly bega...
What Would Shakespeare Say?
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.
At a loss for words? Then do what Monica Lewinsky and Shaquille O'Neal have, and borrow from the best. With occasion-ready quotations from Bardisms, you'll never be speechless again.
Celebrity Homes Are Actually Castles
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Aaron Spelling's mansion just listed for $150 million, the ritziest property in America. From Oprah's beach house to George Clooney's villa, VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars' current and former homes.
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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