Hollywood's Twitter Economy
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.
A new PR industry has sprouted up: harnessing, and twisting, social media for celebrities' gain. Nicole LaPorte on Pee-wee's first tweet, Diablo Cody's online ethics, and Oprah's slacker ways.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Winnie-the-Pooh made a comeback, Spielberg and Lucas teamed up again, James Bond and Wolverine flopped on Broadway, and more in film, TV, music, and art.
Actress Nina Bergman wears faded denim to the Final Destination premiere in Los Angeles on August 27. Sandra Bullock is all tied up at the premiere...
How Funny Is Funny People?
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.
With his latest movie, Judd Apatow, creator of Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, tries to blend comedy with cancer. Caryn James on the director's dark gamble.
Louis C.K. is one of the all-time great comedians. His act is smart, insightful, and more hilarious than you could ever imagine. We all did stand-up to prepare for Funny People, and Louis saw Jonah [Hill] perform and gave him some sound ...
Judd Apatow is an Emmy-award winning producer, screenwriter, and director. Apatow's writing credits include Knocked up, Pineapple Express, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Fun with Dick and Jane, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. He has produced several comedy films as well, including Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, Drillbit Taylor, Superbad and Anchorman.
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.
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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.
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