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Today is testing day for the high-IQ society. From Geena Davis to porn star Asia Carrera to a 2-year-old Einstein, VIEW OUR GALLERY of its most famous brainiacs.
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Turns out Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are distant cousins. VIEW OUR GALLERY of other unlikely relatives, including Barack Obama and Robert E. Lee, and Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie.
Perhaps the most shocking of the president's many distant relatives is...Dick Cheney. Lynne Cheney made the announcement in 2007 that she discovere...
"That Dunne had the moxie to start a new career in another city and then to do it again in a city of his own is one of the many extraordinary accom...
The Boob Ban
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
After making topless beaches legendary, France is saying au revoir to public nudity because, says Eric Pape, breast-baring is now passe. Plus, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the world's best nude beaches.
The French actress and filmmaker during the first festival held in September 1946. Morgan received the best actress award for her performance in La...
9 Most Obsessed Female Movie Characters
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With her turn in Obsessed as a woman who will stop at nothing to get her man, even if he isn't her man, Ali Larter joins the ranks of actresses who've portrayed the domineering, the aggressive, the downright crazy. Why Hollywood so often chooses to produce movies centered around on-the-edge female characters is a subject that could, and should, be debated widely on the studio lots. As a refresher, here's an all-star rundown of the silver screen's most obsessed and possessed.
Hollywood's Loosest Cannon
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.
Legendary producer Jon Peters just sold his memoir-filled with outrageous tales of Jack Nicholson and hookers, and Barbara Walters in her undies. And some of it may even be true.
She's 48?! A Gallery of the New Bikini Crowd
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At 48, One Day at a Time star Valerie Bertinelli is flaunting her new figure on the cover of People-but she's not the first woman over 40 to sizzle in a two-piece. From Elle Macpherson to Kim Cattrall, view our gallery of cougars and hot moms.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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