Week in Viral Videos
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From the great balloon boy caper (who was not, you know, in the balloon) to Michael Steele having a cow, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
NSFW: Sarah Silverman Ends World Hunger
Sarah Silverman's at it again: In this rapidly spreading spoof, the comedian lays out an unconventional plan to feed the hungry.
This Is Not a Fashion Spread
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
Designer Scott Sternberg, behind cult-favorite lines Boy and Band of Outsiders, pokes a finger (lovingly) in the eye of the establishment.
The Week in Red Carpet
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The stars came out to celebrate The Time Traveler's Wife and Inglourious Basterds this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY of Brad and Angelina, Ashton and Demi, and the summer's new casual crowd.
Diane Kruger bares nearly all at the Hollywood premiere of Inglorious Basterds on August 10, while actress Rachel McAdams goes for a similar daring...
14 TV Shows We Want Back
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The end of the formal television season has spurred yet more network culling this week. Samantha Who?, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Eleventh Hour, Cupid, Everybody Hates Chris, Reaper, and Privileged are among the shows not coming back. Every year, great shows get canceled too soon. We look back at a few of our favorites.
Welcome Back, 1980s!
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 acid wash to neon prints to parachute pants, '80s trends have returned to the 2009 runways. A look at which clothes made it back to the future-and how to wear them now.
In an obvious nod to his days spent as a club kid in New York City during the 1980s, Marc Jacobs showcased neon on both his namesake runway and at ...
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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