The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Natalie Portman went on an anti-meat campaign, British theater companies went digital, and a Glee single went gold. View our gallery of the week in art, music, TV, and film.
Kenny Ortega's This Is It, a filmed version of Michael Jackson's would-be new tour from rehearsal footage, opened on Tuesday at midnight and made $...
13 Most Awkward TV Weddings
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On Thursday, after five seasons of beautifully clumsy courtship, Jim and Pam will finally tie the knot on The Office. In true sitcom style, it's guaranteed to be filled with disastrous moments. Therefore, in anticipation, we look back at our favorite trainwreck TV weddings, from Ross' name switcheroo on Friends to the Brady Bunch's mess-making pup.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Winnie-the-Pooh made a comeback, Spielberg and Lucas teamed up again, James Bond and Wolverine flopped on Broadway, and more in film, TV, music, and art.
The Office Grows Up
Allyssa Lee is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor. Her work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times.
As the NBC comedy evolves, even Steve Carell's Michael Scott has to change, says executive producer-actor Paul Lieberstein. Slowly.
Steve Carell's humane portrayal of the earnest yet ignorant Michael Scott is an integral part of this show's success. "He's played his character ve...
Ben Silverman's Next Act
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
NBC's entertainment chairman just walked away from the network for a new online venture. Kim Masters on why television's boy wonder went digital and what his successor is up against.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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