The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Penelope Cruz showed her dark side, Will Smith and Jay-Z came to Broadway, and Taylor Swift became a greeting card. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in music, film, TV, and art.
Lou Dobbs to Leave CNN
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
The longtime anchor, whose views on immigration and the Obama "birther" movement caused controversy at the cable news network, announced Wednesday that he is departing CNN.
TV's Top Three-Ways
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Three characters on Gossip Girl jumped into bed this week. From lucky hookups on Entourage to a failed tryst on Friends, VIEW OUR GALLERY of memorable ménages à trois on television.
Tina Fey's 10 Favorite 30 Rock Moments
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.
The Emmy-winning comedian tells The Daily Beast what really cracks her up on 30 Rock.
Celebrities Who Date Their "Moms"
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Leonardo DiCaprio dates women who look eerily like his mother. So have Matthew McConaughey, Joe Jonas, John Mayer, and JFK. VIEW OUR GALLERY of stars who find mommy dearest.
What Stars Buy Their Babies
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Kourtney Kardashian wants a sweater for her upcoming arrival. Ellen Pompeo needs a breast pump. And Jude Law still hasn't sent a gift from Samantha Burke's wish list. VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity registries.
Celebrity Homecoming Queens
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Dakota Fanning just earned her high school's crown. From Rosie O'Donnell to Meryl Streep, VIEW OUR GALLERY of teenage royals. Plus, homecoming kings-John Belushi and... Andy Dick?
Dakota Fanning became the latest starlet to wear a high-school tiara. The 15-year-old actress cheerleads for California's Campbell Hall Episcopal S...
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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