Beckham's American Dream Dashed
In twelve years at Sports Illustrated, senior writer Grant Wahl has written thirty-one cover stories and more than two hundred articles while covering five World Cups, three Olympics, and twelve NCAA basketball tournaments. Wahl has won four Magazine Story of the Year awards given by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Céline.
Two years after David Beckham became the U.S. soccer savior, he'll leave in disgrace. Grant Wahl on how Tom Cruise and Will Smith got Becks started on the wrong foot. Plus, view our gallery of Posh and Becks in America.
Six months after the announcement he was leaving Real Madrid to play in the United States, David and Victoria Beckham finally arrived in Los Angele...
A-List B-cups
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Kelly Osbourne says she wants a breast reduction before her upcoming wedding. From Jennifer Connelly to Victoria Beckham to Drew Barrymore, VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who downsized.
The 24-year-old daughter of Ozzy and Sharon says she dreams of dropping from a D-cup to a size between B and C-"something you don't need to wear a ...
Murdoch's Crazy Gang
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
His tabs are accused of wiretapping major celebs and the editor who presided over two of his papers has just been promoted to run his entire British newspaper group. But Andrew Neil says no one seems to care.
Sacha Baron Cohen's 9 Wildest Moments
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From an outrageous 2001 interview with Posh and Becks to the naked chase scene in Borat, watch video of the Brüno creator at his most unhinged.
All-Star Style
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
From Tom Brady to LeBron James, professional athletes have raised their game when it comes to fashion. VIEW OUR GALLERY of style MVPs.
Was I Born Anorexic?
Rachel Shukert is the author of Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories, and is currently at work on her second book, The Grand Tour. She lives in New York City.
A new study suggests that some are genetically predisposed to anorexia. This might explain why my bout with self-starvation started when I was a small child.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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