Family Affairs
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Mackenzie Phillips is not the first celebrity to have had an incestuous relationship: Einstein, Darwin, and Jerry Lee Lewis all married their cousins. And one pope slept with his mother. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Mackenzie Phillips shocked the world last week with the revelation that she had sex with her father, John Phillips, the lead singer of The Mamas & ...
Hollywood's Serial Divorcers
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Sean Penn is ending his second marriage. How does he stack up against Liz Taylor, Billy Bob Thornton, Liza Minnelli, and the all-time queen of celebrity divorces? VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Number of Divorces: One (and one on the way) A The brooding actor's divorce total will soon tie his Oscar haul. After Sean Penn's tumultuous fou...
The Vipers of Tinseltown
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.
Blogger Nikki Finke may be the film industry's fearsome foil, but Lee Siegel says she's only the latest in a line of women journalists who have terrorized Hollywood's A-list for a century.
Swimsuits That Changed the World
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From Bettie Page's sexy leopard print to the bikinis of James Bond girls, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the most infamous and iconic bathing suits in history.
The Great American Summer
Rachel is a photographer and writer who recently left her blogging post at Photoshelter's Shoot! The Blog. Previous to that she worked as a photo editor at Nerve.com, Rolling Stone online, and Radar, among others. Her work can be seen at rachelhulin.com.
From Elizabeth Taylor's beach romps to Clark Gable's schooner adventures, VIEW A GALLERY of classic images from a bygone era when famous names knew how to relax. Grab your seersucker and come along.
Actress Rita Hayworth takes a bite out of a hamburger as she sunbathes in a white two-piece on the beach.
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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