20 Greatest Hollywood Dynasties
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Tom and Nicole's son, Connor, wants to join the family business. From the Fondas and the Barrymores to the Sheens and the Coppolas, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the most powerful movie families.
Despite some rough patches over the years, legendary actor Donald Sutherland (MASH, Ordinary People, JFK) remains his son Kiefer's biggest fan. "Al...
The Great American Summer
Rachel is a photographer and writer who recently left her blogging post at Photoshelter's Shoot! The Blog. Previous to that she worked as a photo editor at Nerve.com, Rolling Stone online, and Radar, among others. Her work can be seen at rachelhulin.com.
From Elizabeth Taylor's beach romps to Clark Gable's schooner adventures, VIEW A GALLERY of classic images from a bygone era when famous names knew how to relax. Grab your seersucker and come along.
Actress Rita Hayworth takes a bite out of a hamburger as she sunbathes in a white two-piece on the beach.
Would My Father Have Voted for Obama?
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.
You get asked a lot of odd questions when you go on a book tour. And give even stranger answers. Did I ever tell you about the time I collaborated with Proust? Or was an adviser to William Howard Taft?
The Man Who Slept His Way Through Hollywood
New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's books include Ike, Horse People, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charmed Lives.
In Tony Curtis' new memoir, the marriages, the sex, and the movies are all there. But the book, like the man himself, lacks a certain oomph.
I recommend Tony Curtis' new autobiography American Prince. How does a boy who grew up with terrible poverty, vicious anti-Semitism, a schizophrenic mother and a younger brother's death become one of the most successful actors of all tim...
Gail Saltz is associate professor of psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a psychoanalyst with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. and a mental-health contributor for NBC's Today show. She is author of Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie.
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.
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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