Dakota Fanning Grows Up
Gina Piccalo spent a decade at the Los Angeles Times covering Hollywood . She's now a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine and her work has appeared in Elle, More and Emmy. She can be found at ginapiccalo.com.
The child actress, now 15, has gone from a dimpled cherub to an undead evildoer in New Moon.
The Not Ready for Primetime Player
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Not even the presence of a contrite Kanye West could save Jay Leno's first night from painful dullness.
Mea Culpa! The Seven Best Late-Night Apologies
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On Thursday, David Letterman made an on-air admission that he'd conducted sexual affairs with some of his female staffers, followed by a heartfelt apology. Watch these videos to see how he stacks up against other after-dark mea culpas.
Elijah Wood: Catnip for Nerds
On The Tonight Show, Elijah Wood discusses his new animated film, 9, and his unwavering status as a nerd god.
Video From Last Night’s Farewell
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From classic Jaywalking clips to a few parting shots at NBC, Jay Leno gave The Tonight Show a hilarious and heartfelt goodbye after 17 years. Here are the nine best moments from his final episode.
The Week in TV
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From a spine-eating mutant on Fringe to American Idol's Rat Pack throwback to a prime-time presidential press conference, here's what you missed-and shouldn't have-this week in television.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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