The Yes List – The Once Duo, Once Again
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, the sweet sounds of The Swell Season, an exclusive John Grisham short story, and a truly terrifying movie for Halloween.
Nick Hornby's Oscar Insta-Buzz
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.
Novelist Nick Hornby's screenplay for An Education has made him an instant Oscar favorite. He speaks with Tom Shone about the insanity of Sundance and his Tom Hanks obsession.
The Yes List—Carey Mulligan Earns High Marks for An Education
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, breakout star Carey Mulligan is generating Oscar buzz for her performance as a young girl seduced by an older man in 1960s London.
Stars Dazzle in Toronto
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The Toronto Film Festival kicks off as the launching pad for Oscar season this week. From Matt Damon and Megan Fox to George Clooney and Penelope Cruz, VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who took on the red carpet up north.
Amanda Seyfried arrives at the Up In The Air screening during the Toronto International Film Festival.
Apollo 11: The Movie
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On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, The Daily Beast orbits the casting couch to find stars worthy of playing astronauts.
Gomorrah. It's just the best fucking movie. It's about contemporary Italian crime families and it's made with such gritty, realistic style. Martin Scorsese recently presented it because he wishes he had done it.
Peter Sarsgaard is a film and stage actor. His film credits include: Dead Man Walking, The Man in the Iron Mask, Boys Don’t Cry, The Center of the World, Shattered Glass, Garden State, Kinsey, Flightplan, Jarhead, Rendition, and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Sarsgaard has appeared in Off-Broadway productions including Kingdom of Earth, Laura Dennis, and Burn This. In September 2008, he made his Broadway debut as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin in The Seagull.
The Week in Celebrity
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From award shows to Broadway openings, Anna Faris to Keith Urban, VIEW OUR GALLERY to see what the stars of screen, sport, and song were up to this week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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