The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The Golden Girls take Venezuela, Neil Patrick Harris basks in a lovefest, and Oprah loves Mad Men. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the week in music, TV, film, and art.
I really like some of Matt Taibbi's articles on the financial meltdown and Michael Lewis', too. I thought David Brooks had a good column recently in The New York Times. Brooks was talking about how he was listening to an NPR radio show c...
Academy Award winner Matt Damon has starred in films such as Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Ben Affleck, The Good Shepherd, The Bourne and Oceans film series and the upcoming The Informant. He is also involved with a number of charities including the ONE Campaign, H20 Africa Foundation and Water.org.
Soderbergh's Swansong
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.
His new movie, The Informant!, is full of buzz. But Steven Soderbergh tells The Daily Beast's Nicole LaPorte he's ready to quit filmmaking.
Fall's 25 Hottest Movies
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From star-studded musicals (Nine) to buzzy indies (Precious) to Clint Eastwood's Oscar hopeful, The Daily Beast selects the 25 films you don't want to miss this fall. WATCH TRAILERS.
Office Space creator Mike Judge is back with another biting workplace comedy, but this time he's flipping the script and making the boss the sympat...
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.
Breakout Stars of 2009
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Kara Cutruzzula is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
You haven't heard of them...yet. But The Daily Beast predicts this promising crop of young actors will hit the big time this year. From Lenny Kravitz' daughter to Michael Cera's girlfriend, meet the class of 2009.
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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