Behind the Scenes of New Moon
A former editor of Men's Journal, Claire Martin has written for Outside, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times magazine.
New Moon's screenwriter takes The Daily Beast exclusively through its buzziest scenes. Plus, our complete coverage: the vampire economy, craziest tattoos, and the Rob Pattinson craze.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Penelope Cruz showed her dark side, Will Smith and Jay-Z came to Broadway, and Taylor Swift became a greeting card. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in music, film, TV, and art.
What's in the Fabloids
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.
Katie Holmes plans a tell-all about Tom, Johnny Depp is the Sexiest Man Alive (again), and Sarah Palin hates Oprah-but loves her otter purse, say the tabloids. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Hollywood's Sexiest Werewolves
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.
Taylor Lautner packed a killer six-pack to play Jacob in New Moon. From Jack Nicholson to Anna Paquin to Michael J. Fox, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the hottest howlers.
Dakota Fanning Grows Up
Gina Piccalo spent a decade at the Los Angeles Times covering Hollywood . She's now a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine and her work has appeared in Elle, More and Emmy. She can be found at ginapiccalo.com.
The child actress, now 15, has gone from a dimpled cherub to an undead evildoer in New Moon.
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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