Qaddafi Twins
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Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi made a rambling speech Wednesday at the U.N., but it was his appearance that conjured up the most radical images. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars with an eerie resemblance to the colonel.
Brett Ratner: The Movie
Matthew DeBord covers the auto industry and writes the Shifting Gears blog for Slate’s The Big Money. He has appeared on MSNBC and HDNet’s Dan Rather Reports to discuss the car business and the future of transportation. In addition to writing about cars, he has also written frequently about Hollywood and the entertainment industry, books, and various other subjects for the Los Angeles Times. He writes about sports for the Huffington Post and has published two books on wine.
Forget the midlife crisis. Director Brett Ratner's putting out a retrospective DVD. He talks about shooting Madonna, interviewing Michael Jackson, and the time Mickey Rourke camped out in his garage.
When They Were Hunks
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
Remember when these heartthrobs made their debuts? View exclusive pictures of young Tom Cruise, Leonardo and Ashton BC (before the crow's feet) from a new book by celebrity photographer Greg Gorman.
"That picture was taken so long ago. I met Johnny initially on the set of Cry Baby. He was coming off 21 Jump Street. I'm a big wine nut, and Johnn...
Remembering John Hughes
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Watch clips of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other great movies from the legendary director who died Thursday. Plus, view our gallery of his muses then and now.
John Hughes' Muses: Then and Now
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They charmed us with feathered hair and hair-brained schemes-and now they're all grown up. In honor of his death, The Daily Beast catches up with the quirky cast that brought filmmaker John Hughes' work to life. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
From the mid to late a€˜80s, Molly Ringwald was John Hughes' indisputable muse-and thanks to his films, the carrot-topped teen rose to become Ameri...
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, ballerinas were canned, Jay-Z came through in a pinch, the Obamas celebrated twang, and divorcees broke out in song. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the week in TV, art, film, and music.
Evan Rachel Wood Grows Up
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The 21-year-old star of Woody Allen's new film on dating Marilyn Manson, her role in the Broadway musical of Spider-Man, and what she learned from Warren Beatty.
The Week in Celebrity
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From flashbulb-popping premieres (Kim Basinger is back) to comeback rock tours (so is Dave Matthews), what the camera-unshy were up to this week.
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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