The Week in Culture
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From Tony nominations to the Oscars of fine cuisine, Star Trek to a sweeping new Maya Lin sculpture, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the latest in theater, art, film, and food.
The Reader. Stephen Daldry's movie from the gripping Bernhard Schlink novel is hauntingly brilliant. He coaxes Oscar-winning performances not just from Kate Winslet, as the morally uncomprehending Hanna Schmitz, but from the young German...
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
Ordinary Monsters
Richard Cohen is a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post.
An exclusive interview with Bernhard Schlink, author of the celebrated novel The Reader, about Hollywood's controversial new take on his book, verboten love, and why Kate Winslet makes a convincing war criminal.
Billy Elliot's Smash Debut
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
An incongruous fashion posse mixed with celebrities and New York City's mayor at the brightest Broadway night in memory.
Elton John with Kiril Kulish,Trent Kowalik, David Alvarez, and the ensemble cast during the "Billy Elliot - The Musical" opening night performance ...
The Oscar Recession
Willa Paskin is a writer and former editor of Radar magazine. She lives in New York City.
Wall Street's collapse is hitting Sunset Boulevard, narrowing the field for Best Picture.
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.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
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.
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