The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Obama mingles with Hollywood's A-list, Precious finally hits theaters, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin team up, and more in art, music, theater, and film.
Obama Wins Heisman Trophy!
A former political operative, recovering copywriter, and failed sitcom writer, Mark Katz is now the founder and principal of the Soundbite Institute, a creative think tank that specializes in on-message humor. His essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine, and he is the author of CLINTON & ME: A Real Life Political Comedy, an account of eight years as the in-house humor speechwriter of the Clinton White House.
The Nobel is not the only award the president does not deserve. Mark Katz imagines the prizes yet to come.
Which One Is Wax?
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As Madame Tussaud's opens a Hollywood museum, can you tell the difference between the real stars and their wax replicas? Take our quiz.
Sony Drops Pitt for Clooney?
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 Daily Beast's Kim Masters wonders why the studio canned Brad Pitt's Moneyball when it's bankrolling a staggeringly expensive James L. Brooks comedy-and has just inked a production deal with the money-losing George Clooney.
Jim Carrey Almighty
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.
Say your prayers, Scientology-Jim Carrey and bestselling author Eckhart Tolle held their first meeting of a spiritual movement called GATE last week. Kim Masters on Carrey's sermon.
Christmas in May?
Jim Carrey got an early start on the holiday season by promoting his new Christmas movie on Memorial Day weekend and making lots of strange noises.
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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