A Touch of Audrey
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
As the breakout star of An Education, Carey Mulligan is being compared to a young Hepburn. She talks to Rachel Syme about older men and playing Gordon Gekko's daughter in Wall Street 2.
The Beautiful and The Dumped
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Jessica Simpson may have been spiked by Tony Romo last week, but she's not the only celebrity sitting on the sidelines. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the suddenly single.
Wasilla is, apparently, not for lovers. Todd Palin reportedly offered his daughter Bristol a car to break up with her boyfriend Levi Johnston. Afte...
What's in the Fabloids
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Michael Jackson may have swallowed 10,000 pills, John Edwards has a secret sex tape, and New Orleans wants Brad Pitt for mayor. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
It was only a matter of time until a shocking Michael Jackson book hit the stands. Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson is due out next mon...
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, we lost two icons and gained a museum, the Oscars dropped a bombshell, and a Jonas brother testified in D.C. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in TV, art, music, and film.
What's in the Fabloids
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.
Britney's getting hitched, Robert Pattinson is either with Kristen Stewart or Emilie de Ravin or gay, and Kate Gosselin hits her daughter. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
The stress is getting to Kate Gosselin: On June 13, after daughter Leah wouldn't stop blowing a whistle while Gosselin was chatting on her cellphon...
Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Letterman topped Conan, Shia LaBeouf got weird, the Obamas took in some art in Paris, and Dave Matthews rose again. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
John Travolta and the New OCD Villains
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.
Pay attention! In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, John Travolta is latest example of a control-freak bad guy. Tom Shone has seen enough.
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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