Inside Donatella's World
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
Versace's queen talks to The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana about why Americans are obsessed with sex, Michelle Obama's style, and how fashion can help save children in China.
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.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Short Circuit's Johnny 5 is alive (again), Conan makes a grand entrance, indie rock breaks into the Billboard charts, and more. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
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.
Bill Clinton Jams with Elvis Costello and Other TV Highlights
Nicole Ankowski writes about television, pop culture, and—on occasion—more frivolous matters. She lives in Brooklyn.
This week: Barbara Walters reveals her most fascinating person of the year, William Shatner gets a talk show and Daniel Radcliffe talks about on-stage erections.
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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