Life After Oprah
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Kim Masters reports on how Oprah's exit affects television-and what she's got planned-and Lorraine Ali, who appeared as a guest, on the loss of America's mother confessor.
Oprah Changes Channels
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.
Despite slipping ratings and her failings, she was a class act in the daytime wasteland. Kim Masters on how the mogul's exit will affect the broadcast landscape-and what she's got planned.
Week in Red Carpet
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Taylor Swift glittered at the Country Music Awards, Catherine Zeta-Jones stunned at Women of the Year, and Kristen Bell went short and backless in Hollywood. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
At Glamour Magazine's Women of the Year Awards, Rihanna stopped the show in architectural Stephane Rolland, Catherine Zeta-Jones stayed sleek in na...
Going Country
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Nicole Kidman joins husband Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and other musicians on the red carpet of the Country Music Awards. View our gallery.
Kidman's New Cause
Tim Fernholz is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He has also written for The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, American Lawyer, and the Washington City Paper. He has been a commenter on MSNBC and C-SPAN.
Nicole Kidman comes to D.C. to lift the veil on international violence against women. But during an economic crisis, will foreign aid for women be cut?
When Mothers Die
Liya Kebede is an internationally recognized supermodel, actress, designer, maternal health advocate and mother. She is the founder of the Liya Kebede Foundation, a Goodwill Ambassador for the World Health Organization’s maternal and child health program, a Champion for an HIV Free Generation and an Advisory Board member for the Mothers Day Every Day campaign.
Throughout the developing world, women die in childbirth for lack of the simplest things: soap, clean sheets, and trained birth attendants. Model Liya Kebede is part of the new movement to prevent these deaths.
Week in Red Carpet
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.
From a memorable mermaid dress at the Emmy Awards to a pants-less look in London, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best looks of the week.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Bottoms Up and over 25 other erotica anthologies, and hosts and curates In The Flesh Reading Series.
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
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