From Fame to No Fame
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As a new Fame remake hits theaters, The Daily Beast's Jaimie Etkin looks back at the original singing and dancing class of 1980 and finds out where they are now.
Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Letterman topped Conan, Shia LaBeouf got weird, the Obamas took in some art in Paris, and Dave Matthews rose again. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
The three young boys who shared the Best Actor in a Musical Tony (a first for three actors sharing the same award) were shocked into incoherence wh...
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Short Circuit's Johnny 5 is alive (again), Conan makes a grand entrance, indie rock breaks into the Billboard charts, and more. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in film, music, TV, and art.
Finally, 2009 has its Juno--this year, the classic cutely written, oversentimental, star-packed indie comedrama comes in the form of Sam Mendes' Aw...
Tony Awards Preview
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The Tony Awards won't be handed out until June 7, but in the meantime you can watch highlights from some of the nominated shows, from Hair's dancing hippies to God of Carnage's pithy domestic squabbles. PLUS: Read The Daily Beast's interview with Tony host Neil Patrick Harris and view a gallery of Broadway's grande dames.
Tony's Reluctant Host
Miriam Datskovsky is an associate editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for Conde Nast Portfolio, New York magazine, and nymag.com.
As he prepares to preside over Broadway's biggest night, Neil Patrick Harris tells The Daily Beast why playing the ultimate straight guy is villainous, and what he'll be wearing-or not wearing-Sunday night.
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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