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Celebrating New York's Grandest Hotel
Once visited by everyone from Coco Chanel to Paul Newman, New York City's refined hotel The Pierre is reopening after a $100 million renovation.
Letterman's Immaculate Confession
By avoiding bumbling euphemism in his big announcement last week, David Letterman has perfected the art of disclosure, argues The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana.
Erasing Dan Rather
The epic legal battle between CBS and its estranged ex-anchorman has taken a nasty new turn. Rather's camp accuses the network of holding footage of him hostage.
Spidey's Billionaire
Who's the eccentric mogul behind the $4 billion Disney-Marvel deal? Kim Masters on the CEO more mysterious and secretive than a comic book superhero.
How MySpace Blew It
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch was hailed as a visionary for snapping up MySpace. Today, as Facebook and Twitter fuel a historic uprising, MySpace announced its second round of layoffs in a week. Lloyd Grove on what went wrong.
The Daily Beast Recommends
This week: Henry David Thoreau gets a makeover, deep inside the MySpace wars, a novel that reads like Dickens on acid, and more.















