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.
Famous College Roommates
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 Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones at Harvard to Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve at Juilliard to Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson at Texas, VIEW OUR GALLERY of A-Listers who tried to make dean's list while bunking together.
My Celebrity College Roommate
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
Jaimie Etkin is a culture intern at the Daily Beast.
From Barack Obama's air-conditioning quirks to John Kerry's odd sleeping habits to Madonna's penchant for risk-taking, the memories of people whose college roommates went on to become stars say a lot about navigating your freshman-year living situation.
As roommates at Harvard in late a€˜60s, actor Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore were close friends, going to parties and chasing co...
Sony Drops Pitt for Clooney?
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.
The Daily Beast's Kim Masters wonders why the studio canned Brad Pitt's Moneyball when it's bankrolling a staggeringly expensive James L. Brooks comedy-and has just inked a production deal with the money-losing George Clooney.
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.
Jen gets a new Brad, Oprah loses her diary, and Jon Gosselin starts over. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Will this week mark the end of Jon and Kate mania? Let's hope. For a little while anyway. Until then, People has devoted a huge chunk of this week'...
On Christmas Day, just in time for Oscar consideration, some of the best movies of the year finally arrive. But which ones are worthy of leaving the roasting chestnuts and the open fire? (Or, more important, the long line at the returns counter.) Check this list. Twice.
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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