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Mrs. Obama visits Sesame Street for its 40th birthday today. Watch 25 classic moments, including Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Johnny Cash, and Jack Black. Plus, an ode to a rubber duck.
While "Mahna Mahna" is best known as the opening sketch for the first-ever episode of The Muppet Show, it first charmed young viewers when it aired...
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Winnie-the-Pooh made a comeback, Spielberg and Lucas teamed up again, James Bond and Wolverine flopped on Broadway, and more in film, TV, music, and art.
Star Trek: The Reboot
Tom Shone was film critic of the London Sunday Times from 1994-1999. He is the author of two books, Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Free Press) and In The Rooms (Hutchinson), his first novel, to be published on July 7th 2009. He lives in New York.
J.J. Abrams' Star Trek blockbuster may be one of most acclaimed sci-fi remakes in Hollywood history. Tom Shone explains why, and offers six proven ways to successfully reboot movie franchises.
The New Heart of Soul
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
Alice Smith is the best singer you've never heard of. Touré lets the secret out.
Jimmy Fallon hits PBS, Gwen Stefani rounds up the old gang, Harry Potter won't go away...and Shady's back. The Daily Beast's Rachel Syme takes a sneak peek at the year's coming distractions in entertainment.
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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.
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