Peter and Paul are now without Mary: The third member of the celebrated a€˜60s folk group passed away after a battle with leukemia on Wednesday, le...
Jane Lynch on Playing Meryl Streep's Sister
Marshall Heyman is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist who has worked at The New Yorker and at W. He writes for Harper's Bazaar, W, In Style, Teen Vogue and the New York Times Sunday Styles as well as many other publications.
The six-foot-tall darling of Christopher Guest and Judd Apatow films is about to act opposite Hollywood's towering doyenne. She'll try to keep the fart jokes under wraps.
She Taught Me to Cook—and Called Me a Klutz
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
After meeting Julia Child on a dream assignment in Italy, we became fast friends-despite my unqualified incompetence in her kitchen.
How Julia Loosened Me Up
Jacques Pepin is the author of over a dozen cookbooks, including the groundbreaking La Technique, and has hosted numerous televisions shows, including the Emmy Award-winning Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home with Julia Child.
More than a great cook and blogger muse, Julia Child was a teacher, writes her TV co-host Jacques Pepin. Her lessons: confidence, patience and the importance of a stuffy French chef not taking himself so seriously.
How Meryl Streep Nailed Her
Sara Moulton is the Executive Chef at Gourmet Magazine, where she has worked for 25 years. She is the host of "Sara's Weeknight Meals" on PBS and was one of the original Food Network stars as the host of Cooking Live, Cooking Live Primetime, and Sara’s Secrets. She is the author of Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals and Sara Moulton Cooks at Home.
Julia Child's former assistant and friend for a quarter-century, Food Network host Sara Moulton, watched Julie & Julia with a skeptical eye. Here are the five things the movie got right.
Nora Ephron's Must-Reads
Nora Ephron is a journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. Her credits include Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle. She received three Oscar nominations for screenwriting. Her books include Crazy Salad, Scribble, Scribble and Heartburn. Her latest book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, was a number one best seller. Her latest film is Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
The director of Julie & Julia recommends a few of her favorite books.
Univ. of Martha
Doree Shafrir has contributed to The New York Observer, The New Yorker, Slate, and The Awl, and is the co-author of Love, Mom. She is a former editor at Gawker. Her website is www.doreeshafrir.com.
Martha Stewart's new instructional Web videos promise an upgrade to domestic bliss. Doree Shafrir follows Martha's how-to advice to get organized for the first time in her life.
This Summer's 25 Hottest Movies
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
With the unofficial start of summer now upon us, The Daily Beast has sifted through all the trailers to highlight the 25 films you won't want to miss.
If Christian Bale brings as much fire to his performance on-screen as he brought in his infamous backstage tirade, we'll be the first ones in line ...
'Bacon Tastes Good, Get Over It'
Julie Powell is the author of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously based on her blog The Julie/Julia Project. Her forthcoming book, Cleaving: A Story of Meat, Marriage, and Obsession, will be published in December.
The author of Julie & Julia, the book that inspired Nora Ephron's summer hit-to-be, says a new book about bacon manages to render a delicious topic thoroughly unpalatable.
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.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
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.
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