Precious Rising
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
Can Precious, Oprah's brutal new movie, be this year's Slumdog? In the first Daily Beast Nominates, read interviews with the cast and watch footage of the Oscar favorite.
Lee Daniels Reveals His Gritty Vision
Stephen Farber is a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter. He has written reviews and articles on film for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Movieline, Esquire, New York, New West, and many other publications. He has interviewed hundreds of actors, writers, directors and Hollywood moguls for these publications. Farber has written four books on film: The Movie Rating Game; Hollywood Dynasties; Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case; and Hollywood on the Couch.
The Precious mastermind on how a hard-knock upbringing fueled his desire to make the film.
The Journey Behind Precious
Stephen Farber is a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter. He has written reviews and articles on film for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Movieline, Esquire, New York, New West, and many other publications. He has interviewed hundreds of actors, writers, directors and Hollywood moguls for these publications. Farber has written four books on film: The Movie Rating Game; Hollywood Dynasties; Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case; and Hollywood on the Couch.
Fall's most anticipated film tells the story of an abused teen-but its director's odyssey is almost as remarkable. Stephen Farber talks to Precious' Lee Daniels about his early life in the Philadelphia projects, finding Sapphire's book, and casting Mo'Nique.
10 Red-Carpet Catastrophes
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A Slumdog name slip. Tara Reid's breast blunder. Izaac Mizrahi's grabby hands. Kathy Griffin's tasteless joke. Watch some of the most uncomfortable moments ever to hit the red carpet.
Slumdog Comedian
Anupama Chopra is a film critic with New Delhi Television (NDTV 24/7). She is the author of King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema and also writes about Hindi films for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Vogue India.
Chris Kattan valiantly tackles Mumbai cinema in IFC's new miniseries, Bollywood Hero. But Anupama Chopra says the show lacks the color, music, or masala to rival Slumdog Millionaire.
Is Lacroix's Party Over?
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French designer Christian Lacroix-beloved by models and celebrities for over two decades-just filed for bankruptcy, potentially ending an era. VIEW OUR GALLERY of his most iconic looks.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Scarlett Johansson is singing again, Danny Boyle saves the Slumdog kids, and Archie proposes-to Veronica. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
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.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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