Jim Carrey Almighty
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Say your prayers, Scientology-Jim Carrey and bestselling author Eckhart Tolle held their first meeting of a spiritual movement called GATE last week. Kim Masters on Carrey's sermon.
Gay Celebrity Weddings
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Vermont became the first state today to approve same-sex marriage via legislation, even overturning the governor's veto. Is this the post-Prop 8 solution? VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous gay couples who have tied the knot.
It's been four months since California voters approved the election's most contentious ballot initiative, the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8. The state constitutional amendment-which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman-sparked national outrage from gay-rights supporters, as well as some legal experts, who argue the measure was an illegal constitutional revision. Could the initiative-which has drawn the wrath of everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Melissa Ethridge to Sean Penn-go up in flames?
Our Hottest Stories of 2008
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You Can Forget My Taxes
Melissa Etheridge is an Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter.
Singer Melissa Etheridge rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California-and she won't be paying the state a dime.
Keep Your Laws Off My Family
Melissa Etheridge is an Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter.
As Proposition 8 in California threatens same sex marriage rights, Etheridge looks back on her own struggle to adopt her children with her now wife Tammy.
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.
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.
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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