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...
Week in Red Carpet
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From spacesuits to mylar, it was a bright and shiny week for aging rock gods and pretty young things out on the town. VIEW OUR GALLERY
The Week in Red Carpet
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.
With movie premieres to attend and new gadgets to fête, the stars were out in full force this week. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the faces and trends in front of the flashbulbs.
This Summer's 25 Hottest Movies
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With the unofficial start of summer now upon us, The Daily Beast has sifted through all the trailers to highlight the 25 films you won't want to miss.
If Christian Bale brings as much fire to his performance on-screen as he brought in his infamous backstage tirade, we'll be the first ones in line ...
Cannes' Eight Buzziest Films
Anne Thompson launched the daily ThompsononHollywood blog in March 2007, when she joined Variety as a columnist. Previously, she was deputy film editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where she wrote the weekly syndicated column "Risky Business" and the Riskybizblog. She has also served as west coast editor of Premiere and Film Comment, and senior writer at Entertainment Weekly.
The inside scoop on the films everyone on the Croisette is talking about-from Lars von Trier's gore-fest to Tarantino's World War II epic and Almodóvar's so-so latest.
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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.
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