The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Diane Sawyer got promoted, Whitney Houston staged a comeback, a plus-size model hit it big, and Angela Lansbury paid homage to Bea Arthur. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
This week's feel-good, breakout indie film (and yes, there's one every week), is Amreeka, first-time filmmaker Cherien Dabis' tale about a Christia...
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Al Sharpton danced in honor of Jacko, Helen Mirren shined on stage, and Monty Python had the last laugh. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in film, TV, art, and music.
Jeremy Piven's Fishy Excuse
Amanda Fortini has written for The New Yorker, Slate, Elle, and New York, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
When the Entourage star walked away from a starring role on Broadway because he'd been eating too much sushi, something didn't smell right. But it turns out mercury poisoning is real-at least in L.A.
First Peek: Jeremy Piven Debuts On Broadway
Kevin Sessums is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mississippi Sissy, a memoir of his childhood. He was executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and Allure. He is a contributing editor of Parade. His new memoir, I Left It on Mountain will be published by St. Martins Press.
The Entourage star is the Box Office draw in a new production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow-but his lesser-known co-star, Raul Esparza, could prove the show stealer.
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.
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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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