Rent Scarface this weekend-no one has seen it in 20 years. Where else can you find the combustible mixture of Oliver Stone's hallucinatory and violent screenplay, molded by Brian De Palma at the peak of his directing career, all fueled b...
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.
A Touch of Audrey
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
As the breakout star of An Education, Carey Mulligan is being compared to a young Hepburn. She talks to Rachel Syme about older men and playing Gordon Gekko's daughter in Wall Street 2.
Born on the Fourth of July
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From Hawthorne to Geraldo, VIEW OUR GALLERY of famous Americans who share a patriotic birthday with the United States.
The Oscar Race Begins
Harvey Weinstein is co-chairman of The Weinstein Company with his brother Bob. He is co-creator and executive producer of Project Runway. Harvey and Bob founded Miramax Films in 1979 and under the Weinsteins, Miramax received 249 Academy Award nominations and won 60 Academy Awards.
Public Enemies, the terrific cops-and-robbers summer blockbuster that opens today, shows director Michael Mann at the top of his game, and Johnny Depp coming into his fullest range yet.
Scooter Libby: The Movie
Jeffrey Ressner, a writer based in Los Angeles, has worked for Politico, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and Us Weekly.
Sean Penn just signed on to play Joe Wilson in Fair Game, the movie version of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame's memoir. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Jeffrey Ressner got a hold of the script and shares his juiciest notes.
Bush and Cheney: The Movie
John W. Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, has written ten books, including Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Braches, and is working on his next.
The consultant for Oliver Stone's Nixon-Richard Nixon's White House counsel-writes the script for the last scene of the Bush presidency: the confrontation between George W. Bush and Dick Cheney over a pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's fall-guy.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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