Celebrity Halloween Costumes
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Katie Couric went as Donald Trump, Kyle MacLachlan made a fine George Hamilton, and Matt Lauer sure loves women's clothing. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who dressed up as other stars.
October 24: The Week in Viral Videos
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From a news anchor blunder to a hula-hooping first lady and a naked Russian show model, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
The Muses Behind the Music
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Lucy of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" just died, but whatever happened to Peggy Sue, Sweet Caroline, Delilah, and Mozart's Elise?
The Woman Who Tried to Kill Me
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.
Should the woman who shot at President Ford be welcomed on the Today show? Former Ford photographer David Hume Kennerly-who narrowly missed the gunshot-tells Lloyd Grove why he's outraged.
No Mercy from Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer may be forgiving toward himself, but he has no mercy for Wall Street, whose largest financial firms he wants broken up. Clip above; full video here.
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...
Rove: Cheney Mad at Bush? Really?
Karl Rove, appearing on the Today show, doesn't quite deny a report that Dick Cheney was furious President Bush didn't pardon Scooter Libby. Source: Today 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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