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.
She Taught Me to Cook—and Called Me a Klutz
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
After meeting Julia Child on a dream assignment in Italy, we became fast friends-despite my unqualified incompetence in her kitchen.
Bruce Nauman Lights Up Biennale
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
Bruce Nauman's entry for the United States, Topological Gardens, won the Golden Lion award for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Paul Laster on one of the world's most influential artists. Plus: View our galleries of Topological Gardens and a career retrospective.
Pinault Fetes Venice
Linda Yablonsky is the US art critic for Bloomberg News and a Scene & Herd columnist for Artforum.com. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, and Art + Auction. She is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel.
To celebrate the opening of his glamorous new contemporary-art museum, French billionaire Francois Pinault threw a grand party along the Grand Canal. Linda Yablonsky reports from inside Pinault's Palazzo.
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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