5 Great Books for Poker Fiends
James McManus has covered poker for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, Card Player, ESPN.com, and The New Yorker. Positively Fifth Street, his memoir of finishing fifth in the World Series of Poker championship event, was a New York Times bestseller and is already considered a classic.
From David Mamet's American Buffalo to Bill Gates' memoir, poker expert James McManus shares five great works where the game plays a major hand. His new book, Cowboys Full, has just been published.
Where's Health Care's Star Power?
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Hollywood is riled up about Roman Polanski, but when it comes to the leading liberal cause of the day, celebrities have been uncharacteristically quiet.
Grey's Anatomy's Eric Dane is the latest star caught on a McSteamy sex tape. From Rob Lowe to Pamela Anderson to Prince Charles, The Daily Beast deconstructs the growing canon.
America's Dirtiest Dancer
Screenwriter and journalist Sona Charaipotra has contributed to the New York Times, People, ABCNews.com, MSN.com, American Way and other publications. Formerly an editor at Teen People and a reporter for People magazine, she writes about travel, food and entertainment at www.IshqInABackpack.com.
Cloris Leachman could fill a memoir with tales of seducing men half her age, watching Marilyn grind with JFK (and RFK), and her "epic" attraction to Gene Hackman. So that's just what she did.
Talk Show Trainwrecks 2
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Right after Joaquin Phoenix's meltdown on the Late Show with David Letterman, we posted seven of our favorite other talk-show trainwrecks. You told us we'd missed a few and we agree: So here are seven more, featuring everything from a classic melee on Geraldo to a wasted literary icon to a repentant star of Seinfeld. Let the meltdowns begin...
Don't Give It to Mickey!
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Or Sean Penn. Frost/Nixon's Frank Langella deserves the Best Actor award, and the future of acting may be at stake.
Oscars Speech Dos and Don'ts
Dale Hrabi has analyzed culture and trends as a writer and editor for Details, Elle, Radar, and the New York Times. His new humor book, The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents was recently published by Harper Collins.
From Jack Palance's pushups to Marlon Brando's bizarre protest, the Academy's big winners either get it very right-and horribly wrong. View our video guide to statuette-iquette.
Courting Brando
Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, is writing his memoir. Editor at large of The Week, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967-81 and The Times from 1981-82, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House Trade Group from 1990-97.
With the publication of a new biography of Marlon Brando, Harold Evans recalls the surreal dinners and the moonlight swims he endured to extract a memoir from the legendary actor.
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.
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.
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.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
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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