20 Outrageous Oprah Moments
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You've seen the car giveaway and the day she showed off her new figure, but what about the time she talked auto-eroticism with Gayle, praised Kate Winslet's breasts, and rapped with Jay-Z?
10 Red-Carpet Catastrophes
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A Slumdog name slip. Tara Reid's breast blunder. Izaac Mizrahi's grabby hands. Kathy Griffin's tasteless joke. Watch some of the most uncomfortable moments ever to hit the red carpet.
I'd just finished reading noir king James M. Cain's page-turner Mildred Pierce when Variety reported in mid-August that Kate Winslet was on board to do a remake of the 1945 Oscar winning film version that starred Joan Crawford as the dri...
Veteran journalist Jerry Oppenheimer is the author of a biography of Ethel Kennedy, The Other Mrs. Kennedy: An American Drama of Power, Privilege, and Politics. His most recent book, Madoff with the Money, was excerpted in The Daily Beast.
Designer Movies
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
With Audrey Tatou's upcoming performance as Coco Chanel and Kate Winslet set to play Vivienne Westwood, Renata Espinosa imagines fantasy casts for other fashion biopics.
Hot Momma Maggie
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
As her new movie opens, Maggie Gyllenhaal says she's done playing the quirky girlfriend role. She talks to Rachel Syme about annoying liberal moms, acting with her hubby, and the biggest surprise of parenthood.
Post-Oscars Wrap
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The Daily Beast's columnists and contributors weigh in on the over-the-top musical numbers to the red carpet's improv acts, there's plenty of debate about whether last night's Oscars marked a turn-around for the flagging awards show.
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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